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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 10:10 PM
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Frameshop: Scaring The Pants Off The People
http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/frameshop/2007/06/frameshop_scari.html


For those lucky enough to have never lived under the Stasi-style rule of Mayor Rudy Giuliani, it may come as a shock to learn that "Rudy's" formula for the good life in America is: 200 strip-searches per day (give or take few).

This is no theory, mind you. It is a formula derived from Giuliani's record as mayor. Specifically, the data about Giuliani's use of strip-searches as police policy came to light when a large class action law suit was filed against the city in 1997, resulting in the largest civil rights settlement against New York City ever, and one of the largest against any municipality anywhere.

At the directive of Mayor Giuliani's office, over a ten month period from 1996 to 1997, the New York City police conducted over 70,000 strip-searches of ordinary citizens for minor offenses including: trying to board the subway without paying a fare and jaywalking.

If 70,000 strip-searches were conducted by Giuliani's policy squads over 10 months, that meant roughly 233 per day, about 10 per hour or one every 6 minutes.

Ah, yes, America. That cool breeze you feel on your naked legs as you stand spread eagle in a police precinct--that's the refreshing sensation of Giuliani-style freedom. Invigorating, eh?

Seem excessive? Worried that a hypothetical "President Giuliani" would turn the whole country into a 21st-Century version of East Berlin? Well, that just means you are one of those "liberals" who does not yet understand Rudy Giuliani's core operating principle--that "freedom" can only come about if we are willing to "cede" all our rights to the absolute authority of the police.

THERE'S MORE AT THE LINK!
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spag68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 10:26 PM
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1. Please stop saying these bad things about our former mayer
He is the one I personally would love to see as their candidate. Then you can tell anyone the truth about about the reich mayer. I was here , I know I will.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 07:05 AM
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2. Okay! I'll Be Vewy, Vewy Kwiet!
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