Bloomberg discussion

[Bluebear]

discussion thread

[MissB]

1. Shocked, I tell you.

Not.

[KittyWampus]

2. Oh Please! Bloomberg's Excuse Til Now Is Lawn Maintainance.

he refuses to allow protestors in Central Park because of the lawn.

[Caution]

3. how in the good goddamned hell do these people get away with this?

Will anyone in the friggin "liberal" media actually have the stones to start calling them on this type of crap?

[NMDemDist2]

4. they will lose all control of the streets

the people are coming no matter what... they should just bow to the tide to keep some semblance of control

they may have to kick the repubs out of the Garden to hold the arrested protestors otherwise

idiots....

[Feanorcurufinwe]

5. I hate paraphrasing for this reason.

There is a big, fundamental difference between 'limiting protest' and 'limiting the number of protest permits'.

[Bluebear]

9. Sorry you don't approve, I'm trying as hard as I can

[Feanorcurufinwe]

24. I didn't say I didn't approve.

Which makes your ability to paraphrase even more suspect.

[Bluebear]

26. I renamed the thread & took content away

So there is no confusion.

[Moderator]

32. Locking

Feel free to re-post with your intentions clearer.

[Deja Q]

11. I second that.

Paraphrasing can be dangerous. Taking things out of context is utterly disasterous.

[Bluebear]

16. I am not taking out of context

I am, however being careful not to say it is an exact quotation.

[qanda]

6. All I can do is shake my head

Our country has been hijacked!

[jean]

7. the sky is falling but go about your daily life and spend lots of money

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. but don't you dare protest!

[jean]

18. there ya go - and your pic shows us how to go about it - under cloudy

skies wearing a gas mask. We'll have to paint smiley faces on the masks so our comrades can see how happy we are in the new reality.

[tabasco]

8. That First Amendment was nice while it lasted.

Our Founding Fathers would be ashamed. What they considered sacred rights of citizens are being trampled. King George of England must be laughing at us from hell.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Expect Martial Law by the convention

and this should back fire on them

[The_Casual_Observer]

19. I am beginning to think that probably 48%

of the population would be just fine with martial law, and would welcome it. I am surprised that they haven't polled that one yet.

[aquart]

21. Martial law in a tourist town? No way.

Bloomberg is way too smart for that. They have all the power they need without that.

Remember, this year, the cops ain't for Bush. Neither are the reservists guarding Penn Station.

[aquart]

12. Yeah, it's a shock.

ME, I don't want the protests, anyway. I'm scared shit that violence outside MSG or IN Penn Station will send undecideds scurrying to Bush.

I would infinitely rather NOTHING happen, so Bush looks like a coward again.

[BlueStateGirl]

14. Bloomberg sounds a little aggravated with the questions.

[soupkitchen]

15. I haven't heard the protesters ask for the police to protect them

Why not ask the GOP not to come to New York. There the ones that want and need police protection.

[Webster Green]

17. They've thrown down the gauntlet.....

Gives them an excuse to shoot protestors at the Repuke Propaganda Fest this month.

I think its gonna get ugly!

[Fleshdancer]

20. I think it's time for me to plan a trip to NYC

I can't take this anymore. We NEED to do something now.

[aquart]

27. Such as..........?

[lpbk2713]

22. "There's nothing political about this."................. riiiiight.

Isn't that what Katherine Harris said?

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Remember what Marc Racicot said

to sugest taht these alerts are politically motivated is unamerican.

[NightOwwl]

23. How many times did he use specificity in one sentence?

This is how they are attempting to differentiate this threat from previous threats. Telling us we still don't know time, place, or method of attack, but we have more "specificity."

[Protected]

28. Wow, Bloomberg just said some of the info was "years" old

but it comes out right now in a mega-alert? Very interesting!

[sandnsea]

29. Go to work, just don't exercise freedom of assembly

Yeah. I don't think I can make it to NYC, my daughter is getting married in Sept. I'm willing to try to help finance anybody who is. Where can I contribute to NYC protestors?

[kentuck]

30. Exactly !

Exercise all your freedoms but freedom of assembly to protest these MFers!

[ribrepin]

31. See Fahrenheit 911 on the day Chimp gives his acceptance speech

Push the attendance up again. Hit em in the wallet. They don't have enough brown shirts to clamp down on the whole nation, but they will have enough in Manhattan to stop the protesters.