When it became clear that the Occupy Wall Street encampment in lower Manhattan was a health and safety danger riddled with sexual assaults, Mayor Michael Bloomberg took action… eventually. After a couple of months. New Yorkers already knew that Bloomberg was no Rudy Giuliani, who combined smart conservative policymaking with a dedication to the city’s safety, security, and dignity. But they learned something else as Bloomberg watched businesses close and the violence spread: Bloomberg was willing to sacrifice public safety to make grand political gestures.
And they learned that lesson again yesterday. Bloomberg, who is as pro-gun control as anyone with his own army, went on Piers Morgan’s show and revealed that the Occupy protests seemed to have left a special place in his heart for subjecting the city to periodic bursts of anarchy:
“I don’t understand why police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say we’re going to go on strike, we’re not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe,’’ he told CNN’s Piers Morgan.
Bloomberg made this astonishingly dangerous remark in response to the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, demanding new tougher gun control legislation. Let’s put aside for the moment the fact that the suspect in this case was building sophisticated bombs in his apartment, and probably would not have been deterred by gun laws. Bloomberg has always had some difficulty with cause and effect–he suggested the Times Square bomber, a self-proclaimed jihadist, was really just angry about President Obama’s health care bill.
And let’s put aside, also, the fact that just as he doesn’t abide by various prohibitions he tries to force on the commoners, Bloomberg’s own safety would never be in doubt. Just yours. And try to put aside the irony of Bloomberg threatening to figuratively put a gun to the public’s head to pass gun control legislation they oppose.
Actually, don’t put any of that aside. Just remember, the next time someone accuses conservatives of holding the country hostage over policy disagreements, Bloomberg has shown us what that would actually look like.
Bloomberg's remarks were astonishing when I heard them. He is calling for insurrection and should be condemned and arrested and put on trial like the Troskyite that he is. He is showing his real ideology and the clear danger to public safety that his administration has beome. I've suspected him of being a closet radical ever since Occupy Wall Street. This call for civil strife is beyond the pale. But don't worry Mr. Mayor, We The People have enough guns our here in flyover country to protect ourselves if anyone heeds your foolishness. Bloomberg is the shining example of why the NRA and the Second Amendment are vital to our national security and safety.
And maybe all the doctors, nurses and tailors should go on strike until the legislature bans soda and mandates that everyone eat alfalfa sprouts.
Never knew that soda was a danger to doctors, nurses and tailors.
Bloomberg is an idiot.but compared to the alternatives we have in New York, he is alot better than what is waiting in the wings.
Excellent piece! Bloomberg's penchant for the grand gesture,and his habit of using spurious claims of cause and effect to suit his pet fanaticisms is brilliantly highlighted.And when he was given the power to remake the N.Y.C. schools as he saw fit,he took a dysfunctional system and made it worse by implementing cockamamie schemes defended with bizarre logic and grand rhetorical gestures that created chaos without any of the promised educational benefits.
Bloomberg and 0bama are of the ideology. Control everything about the people, until it is a complete dictatorship, commies at heart. They will have theirs and the people be damned.
If His Honor wants a police strike, all he has to do is add donuts to his ban on sugary drinks.
i would have to say that I agree with Bloomberg in this case. Few other countries have the sort of gun laws that America has. I don't see Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Germany etc. enacting American style gun laws. Tough gun laws can make guns harder to get for criminals and mental patients.
For a man who made the bulk of his fortune off of making people informed, Mayor Bloomberg seems remarkably ignorant on the subject. He can't get somebody to brief him on why the police don't go on strike for gun control? It's not that complicated. n n1. A lot of police don't believe in gun control. n2. A lot of police wouldn't go out on strike. Those would be the ones who still had a job. n3. For the jurisdictions that had too many go on strike martial law is one proclamation away. Governors have letter templates for this stuff. As a new force constituted, the soldiers would go home. n4. The american people respond poorly to naked political blackmail.
"riddled with sexual assaults" n nHow many is "riddled"?
Liberials are not liberial they are dictators.They hide behind the name liberial but are anything but liberial my the very definition of what a liberial is.Bloomberg the one that want's to tell you now much salt to use on your food.That's is a dictator not a democrate or a liberial.
Let us face the fact: gun ownership is an American dogma supported by a huge business. One is for or against.It is a religion.
Or we could face the fact that the founders insisting the new government not infringe on the colonists existing right to bear arms in the event of a tyrannical government might be a valid concern._ n nParticularly if you consider the last 120 yrs or so of world history and the millions murdered by their own governments in Germany, USSR, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Syria, etc. etc. In fact, the number of murders from criminals are almost insignifiacnt stacked against the governments'. n nAlthough perhaps you're of the opinion that our current political leaders are somehow vastly superior or at least a significantly different breed of human being than all who have gone before.
“weu2019re not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do whatu2019s required to keep us safe”r nr nWait a minute I thought the police were supposed to keep the public safe – not the other way around. r nr nBut OK police you want the public to protect you? The answer is more armed citizens.
"we’re not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe" n nWait a minute I thought the police were supposed to keep the public safe – not the other way around. n nBut OK police you want the public to protect you? The answer is more armed citizens.
It isn't the job of the police to protect individuals. They only enforce the laws after they're broken. As SCOTUS and lower court decisions have made clear. Most significantly Warren vs DC and Castle Rock vs Gonzalez.____Here's a relevant one:__Riss vs New York. Linda Riss telephoned the police and begged for help because her ex-boyfriend had repeatedly threatened. The day after she had pleaded for police protection, the ex-boyfriend threw lye in her face, blinding her in one eye, severely damaging the other, and permanently scarring her features. [Note: Linda Riss obeyed the law, yet the law prevented her from arming herself in self-defense.]__"What makes the City's position particularly difficult to understand is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law, Linda did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus, by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of New York which now denies all responsibility to her." Dissenting opinion.__
Gee, Mayor Bloomberg, you don't understand why the police don't go out on strike till we get tougher gun control? Well, it's because a large majority of police, when surveyed, say that they think having law-abiding citizens own and carry guns reduces crime, and makes them safer.__But obviously, you know better.
He is not calling for it in the city that he is mayor of, like all loony liberals he tells other people how to run their city. I do not love New York, I do not like New Yorkers. Who asked this butt head how and when to enforce the law?
Bloomberg is a blooming idiot! He is advocating the police stop doing their sworn duties unless he gets his way. I do hope the New Yorkers finally kick this egotistical moon out of office!