Understand that the RNC has closed down NYC for their own private party

Stephanie

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Wed Sep-01-04 01:05 AM
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Understand that the RNC has closed down NYC for their own private party

Edited on Wed Sep-01-04 01:11 AM by Stephanie

It's just like when a corporation buys out Disneyland to hold their private company party. That's what the RNC has done to Manhattan. The difference being that they have disrupted the lives of MILLIONS for their little celebration. Shut down Times Square? No problem. Eighth Avenue? Sure!

If you have ever attended a drunken frat party, then you know what is happening in NY right now. Arrogant, drunken, entitled fratboys fencing off OUR streets for their private party and calling the cops on the locals who complain about it.

I can't believe we have to suffer two more days of this shit.

By the way, I have it on good authority that the Chimp will arrive sometime tomorrow.

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Cleita

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Wed Sep-01-04 01:19 AM
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1. Take pictures if you can.

Edited on Wed Sep-01-04 01:20 AM by Cleita

Never know what might show up. My sympathy. How awful to be around all those bad vibes.

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Stephanie

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Wed Sep-01-04 01:32 AM
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4. Everyone has cameras

Every time there is any incident with the protestors and the cops dozens of cameras materialize to document it.

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EnfantTerrible

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Wed Sep-01-04 01:26 AM
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2. Doesn't that usually mean that the host will benefit in some way?

Last I heard between the cost of security and lost business due to the fact that: who the hell wants to be in NYC when the chimp and his circus comes to town, it'll end up costing the city $44million!!!! to host this, if I may quote the chimp in a different context, "catastrophic success"*.

* his own words to describe the war in Iraq

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Stephanie

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Wed Sep-01-04 01:31 AM
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3. Yes and welcome to DU

Total cost is estimated at $65 million - probably more by now. I don't know how much of that the state/feds pick up. It's just outrageous.

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EnfantTerrible

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Wed Sep-01-04 01:40 AM
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6. Thanks for the welcome

Either way we pay for it. The joke's on us New Yorkers while they laugh it up...

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K-W

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Wed Sep-01-04 01:33 AM
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5. All the macine gun toting security make me feel great,

because I so thought the terrorists were going to mount an armed insurrection on Grand Central Station. Why is my money being wasted on what in effect are plastic owels sitting around on the off chance they inimidate anyone.

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Stephanie

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Wed Sep-01-04 01:43 AM
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7. Yes, if there is a shoot-out in the Great Hall we are well protected

Or if someone tries to hijack the crosstown bus. Otherwise, we are f*cked.

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EnfantTerrible

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Wed Sep-01-04 01:45 AM
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8. Ask Bloomberg...

... the toady suck-up!!!!

illegal codesmilie_remote(':nuke:')

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pa28

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Wed Sep-01-04 02:00 AM
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9. Here's some Republican outrage . . .

over the Democratic convention in Boston. The "Massive Inconvenience" the "unjustified public expense" and "authoritarian lock-downs". All of it poker-faced with NYC coming up in just a few short weeks.

My diagnosis: massive cognitive dissonance accompanied by pathological hypocrisy. These people should not be walking the streets of New York without adult supervision.

Remember what a froth the Republicans worked themselves into over this?

http://cltg.org/dnc/
http://www.greatdreams.com/political/democratic-convention-2004.htm
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=35872&format=

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Stephanie

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Wed Sep-01-04 08:34 AM
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10. Weenies

Boston better toughen up if they ever want the thrill of hosting a REPUBLICAN convention.

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Stephanie

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Wed Sep-01-04 08:56 AM
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11. The NY Observer made the same comparison!

She enjoyed saying that word, "anarchist." All the Republicans did. But that was disingenuous. Whatever fears had sent New Yorkers out of town, the New Yorkers were gone, and that was the way the Republicans liked it. It fit in with their world view. It was like having Disney World open to just your family on a Sunday. They were free to use all the locations. If waiters at Butter, the boite next to the Public Theater on Lafayette, snickered at the guys in khakis who were ordering mojitos, so what? That was an inside joke among the passive resistance.

Meantime, the Republicans would use New York to make themselves seem worldly, broad-minded. It was funny and it was painful. And so a place that is the embodiment of intellectual life, the Central Building of the New York Public Library, had gone goofy. Lobbyists did mock tackles of one another on the steps and, setting out for the next party, chanted, "46th and Third, 46th and Third," tomahawking the air in an easterly direction.

http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage5.asp

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Charley_Dog

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Wed Sep-01-04 09:03 AM
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12. Different how?

I live in Boston and it was no different when the DNC was here last month.

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Stephanie

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Wed Sep-01-04 09:25 AM
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13. Really? They closed down 18 square blocks of midtown?

No foot traffic within blocks of the hall? Entire avenues shut down for 40 blocks? Armies of cops swarming the city? Kids getting their heads busted for protesting? A bus terminal turned into a prison for the one thousand arrested so far? Entire neighborhoods closed down to accomodate GOP fetes? Museums, libraries taken over? Subway stops closed, transportation disrupted?

Read the NY Observer article and tell me if it's the same. I highly doubt it.

How many were arrested in Boston?

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