Don't Need None of that Mad Max Bullshit

7/25/2005

This was the front page of the Daily News today.

This was page two and three.

I’m sorry if you can’t read it to clearly, but the gist of the article is that, yesterday at about 11:35 AM, on a Gray Line tour bus in midtown Manhattan, the police responded to a call from the bus driver reporting some suspicious people on the tour.

The driver (Pictured lower left) is quoted as saying:

"I was definitely frightened from the beginning.
That’s human nature."

The police forced all the passengers off at gunpoint and searched all their belongings. (Pictured upper and lower right)

The five tourists who the driver thought were the culprits were hand cuffed and forced to kneel on the street while the police searched the bags. (Pictured lower right)

According to the article:

Fear grew when cops ordered everyone to put their hands up and walk off the bus – leaving their bags to be searched.

"You want to talk about real terror?" (Kathy) Arrigio’s husband, Robert said. "There were two little girls with their parents who were just terrified. They were crying uncontrollably."

I guess they’re not coming back to see "The Lion King" any time soon.

Here’s another example of freedom:

Cops raced into a McDonald’s nearby and told workers to shut down the place and get out as fast as they could.


"The cops just came in and said to evacuate the building and to run," said McDonald’s employee Catherine Melendez.

Now, granted, this is the News' version of the events and I didn’t get a chance to see the Post’s idea of truth. They probably had something like, "The heroes apprehended a bunch of darkies…" etc. etc.

But either way you look at it, NOTHING was found.

The bottom line is Midtown Manhattan was shut down for at least an hour in Mid Day. A bunch of tourists were treated to some old school police work. A bunch of McDonald’s patrons were forced to flee in a near panic.

All because some driver didn’t like the way some one looked.

I read the article five times and NO WHERE in it did the writer/reporter ask anything to the effect of

How could this possibly happen in America?

That damn liberal media!!!!


But, lets just look at the facts:

Almost immediately after 9/11, this administration, through it’s policy of "pre-emptive strike," have whole heartedly embraced imperialism. Now before you say, "The best defense is a good offense," the target of our aggression had absolutely nothing to do with the attack on the United States. The terrorist network responsible for that is still operating with impunity.

We have A fully operational concentration camp located in Cuba. The last time this country embraced such an anti-constitutional inhuman institution was during World War II when we decided to round up anybody who happened to be a Japanese American, stripped them of their businesses and property and threw them, men, women and children in disgraceful "detention centers" for purposes of "national security." The only crime they committed was being of Japanese descent. Any American citizen, with a hint of compassion, considers the actions of the U.S. government at that time to be a serious stain on our history with no justification whatsoever.

(As a side note, Michelle Malkin, a hopelessly ridiculous conservative lap dog, recently wrote a book entitled "In Defense of Internment: The Case For Racial Profiling." Just look at the title. Totally disgusting.)

Mayor Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, has instituted a policy of "random searches" of any bag you may be carrying. I want to repeat that. If you are walking, with a bag, valise or purse, a police officer can look through it, just because he wants to. I guess the fourth amendment doesn’t have the same weight it used to.

How about this quaint little piece of rhetoric from the first amendment, "Congress shall make no law…abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." During last year’s Republican convention, Bloomberg’s goon squads arrested thousands of people and kept them in a cage for well over 48 hours JUST FOR SAYING that they thought our President was wrong. I guess that one means nothing either.

Here’s a juicy little nugget from the sixth amendment; "…the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed." Well, with our concentration camp in full swing, not only is "habeas corpus" out the window but YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO COMMIT A CRIME!!! Didn’t we use to believe in these things? Why the hell did we write them at all?

Chicago in 2006?

And now we got a heavily armed para-military unit, in the middle of Times Square, forcing a bunch of tourists off one of those double decker tour buses with their hands in the air like they are a surrendering enemy army all because the bus driver, "…thought they looked suspicious."

But, you’re right.

Why should we give a shit?

Fear Factor is starting in a few minutes.



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Sixth Army