Whatever happened to my Home Town Paper? Why have the editors come out in favor of a Police overtime scam? The fact is that the New York City subway system is vast and a bomb laden terrorist can just walk seven of eight blocks north to the next station wasn't mentioned.
If the police were checking bags at every single subway station, it might be feasible that this move is about security. The population control games that go on here are sickening. The subway spot checks are about getting the public to accept the erosion of civil liberties.
The New York Times once guarded our civil rights. They now come out in favor of a plan so full of holes, just so they don't upset the city government. The subway system is a potential target but spot checks will do nothing but catch a few unlicensed hand guns.
This editorial points out how far downhill a once great paper has gone;
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/opinion/26tue1.html
The New York Times should investigate the soft targets in this city. Those editors should expose the facts that while the police stations, court houses and government instillations have barricades, our Broadway Shows have no protection whatsoever. No one wants to talk about a law forcing Theaters to put up bollards but they will after a van with a bomb drives through the front door and blows up in the orchestra section.
What The New York Times should be pointing out is the fact that there are so many cops in this city, that it has become a huge financial burden on the taxpayer. Yes the city is much safer but when seventy-five police officers show up at a minor fender bender and create a traffic jam for miles in every direction, someone should be asking questions about the ridiculous overkill.
New York is not the Bluest city in the nation because so many of us vote Democrat. New York is shaded blue by a massive police presence. There are close to 40,000 police officers in this town and that's not counting the non-sworn employees, an army of traffic cops, tow-truck drives, office personnel and clerks. It is the main reason in the Land of Bureaucracies why the sale tax has gotten close to nine percent and he city payroll tax is the highest in the nation.
There has been an obvious plan in this city to create a docile population by police presence. When we try to have a peaceful protest, police lines are manned at every entrance block except for one or two to confuse and discourage rally goers. The practice of penning citizens in four-sided enclosures was ended by a federal court ruling but it was perfectly acceptable to Giuliani's Nazis until the NYPD has lost in court.
It was good to see that the people have won Times Square back from the police on the pervious News Years Eve. It was a great embarrassment to the people of the United States when the rest of the world tuned in to the New York tradition, only to see small groups of revelers, corralled in little barricades. Our country looked a lot less like a symbol of freedom on New Years Eve when the people were imprisoned in these rectangles and only the police had a little bit of space to enjoy themselves.
While it has become obvious that our "Fourth Estate" has become a collection of big business owners covering up the atrocities preformed by crooked politicians, who are doing the biddings of big business owners, I always believed in The New York Times and Washington Post.
The editors of The New York Times have gone so far down hill so fast, that I find myself wondering if they were ever impartial. Thinking that they were always a conservative rag wearing a disguise to placate the liberal, another smokescreen designed to make it seem like our voice really existed.
Because of the fact that on one occasion, Woodward and Bernstein were allowed to print enough truth to bring down a corrupt Republican regime, The Washington Post has been able to placate the progressive thinkers of America. Because of the fact that in 1971 The New York Times published an expose on "The Pentagon Papers" and succeeded in getting the Supreme Court lift the government inflicted restraining order against these documents, they have also enjoyed a thirty-four year reputation as a place for truth.
These papers that now enjoy the position of opposing view have a history of stopping when the news is strong enough for the people to take notice. They serve a dual propose to the Republican Party. Every day these paper offer a new insult to our intelligence.