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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBloomberg endorses fingerprinting housing project residents for their own good
It's for your safety, you see. The children.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) put forward an idea on Friday to install fingerprint scanners in the citys Housing Authority projects.
The Staten Island Advance reported that Bloomberg made the remarks during his weekly interview on WOR-AM, saying the scanners would help determine who is living in those apartments without a lease.
If you have a stranger walking in the halls of your apartment building, dont you want somebody to stop and say, Who are you? Whyre you here? Bloomberg asked host John Gambling.
The idea was criticized by two candidates for the Democratic primary nomination, Christine Quinn and Bill de Blasio.
Its a completely ludicrous and outrageous notion that (Housing Authority) residents and their guests should have to be fingerprinted to gain access to their own homes and to visit family and friends, Quinn told the Advance.
WLNY-TV also reported on Friday that Bloomberg followed through on his promise to appeal a federal judges ruling that the citys heavily-panned stop and frisk policy was unconstitutional.
What does she know about policing? Absolutely zero, Bloomberg told Gambling, referring to District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin. Your safety and the safety of your kids is now in the hands of some woman who does not have the expertise to do it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/16/bloomberg-endorses-fingerprinting-housing-project-residents-for-their-own-good/
The Staten Island Advance reported that Bloomberg made the remarks during his weekly interview on WOR-AM, saying the scanners would help determine who is living in those apartments without a lease.
If you have a stranger walking in the halls of your apartment building, dont you want somebody to stop and say, Who are you? Whyre you here? Bloomberg asked host John Gambling.
The idea was criticized by two candidates for the Democratic primary nomination, Christine Quinn and Bill de Blasio.
Its a completely ludicrous and outrageous notion that (Housing Authority) residents and their guests should have to be fingerprinted to gain access to their own homes and to visit family and friends, Quinn told the Advance.
WLNY-TV also reported on Friday that Bloomberg followed through on his promise to appeal a federal judges ruling that the citys heavily-panned stop and frisk policy was unconstitutional.
What does she know about policing? Absolutely zero, Bloomberg told Gambling, referring to District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin. Your safety and the safety of your kids is now in the hands of some woman who does not have the expertise to do it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/16/bloomberg-endorses-fingerprinting-housing-project-residents-for-their-own-good/
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Bloomberg endorses fingerprinting housing project residents for their own good (Original Post)
phantom power
Aug 2013
OP
Fuck that billionaire wall street monster. Fuck his "NYPD is my private army" bullshit. Fuck his
Fire Walk With Me
Aug 2013
#2
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)1. Tiny Fascist
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)2. Fuck that billionaire wall street monster. Fuck his "NYPD is my private army" bullshit. Fuck his
support of racist, unConstitutional Ray Kelly and his "stop and frisk" and spying upon the Muslim community. Fuck him for what he did to Occupy.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. Bloomberg never met an authoritarian measure he didn't like.
He's just another wannabe tyrant.
REP
(21,691 posts)4. "For your own good" is code for an insult to follow
In this case, the obsolete meaning of "attack" applies.
blogslut
(37,997 posts)5. Hey, Bloomberg. Kurt Vonnegut drew your portrait:
KoKo
(84,711 posts)6. He will Run for President 2016...On Indie Ticket if he can..Repug if he gets support.
NPR...fingered him this a.m.
He's "DAH MAN!"
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)7. Bloomberg has an authoritarian streak
a mile wide. He should give it a rest.
Squinch
(50,935 posts)8. "What does she know about policing?" he asks. Did he have some tour of duty
somewhere that I missed? Did he spend his summer vacation being a cop?
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)9. And many people on this board still support him.