Jim Henley’s been discussing how the Bloomberg Administration has been working against people trying to hold a protest rally this weekend.
He quotes an email from me stating “One note you may not be aware of:
NYC has been at Orange ever since the system was inaugurated, and has
never gone off it.” (a status that Jimmy Breslin also noted in his own article on the case) and goes on to state:
\\It would seem to mean that:
a) the City disapproved the UFPJ march under Code Orange;
b) the City approved the St. Paddy’s Day march under Code Orange.
That looks like game and set already if not game, set and match.\\
Jim understates the case. By my reckoning, match point is:
c) the City under Code Orange approved and previously allowed:
1. the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (2001 & 2002)
2. the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebrations (2001 & 2002)
All four of thouse events had hundreds of thousands of attendees, plus
nationwide TV coverage. Perfect things for terrorists to hit, no?
The paranoid mind might think that this was Bloomberg’s payback to Bush for freeing up 9/11 recovery funds.