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Title: Mayor Bloomberg calls the NYPD ‘my own army’ (And the One % Wonders What The Ruckus Is All About)
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URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/ ... rg-calls-the-nypd-my-own-army/
Published: Dec 1, 2011
Author: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/30/ma
Post Date: 2011-12-01 10:22:25 by tom007
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Mayor Bloomberg calls the NYPD ‘my own army’ By Eric W. Dolan Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Print 139 mayorbloomberg-DavidShankbone Topics: bloomberg ♦ massachusetts institute of technology ♦ mayor bloomberg New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said the New York Police Department was like his own personal military force during a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to PolitickerNY. “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world,” he said. “I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.” Bloomberg was speaking about why he prefers City Hall to the White House. But later in the speech, he raised the possibility that he would seek the presidency. He claimed the executive duties performed by mayors prepared them for the White House better than other political positions. Bloomberg recently came under rhetorical fire for the NYPD’s actions in Zuccotti Park. When police moved to evict “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, reporters were prevented from witnessing the scene and some were even arrested. The city also closed airspace in lower Manhattan to prevent news helicopters from taking aerial footage of the police crackdown. The human rights organizations PEN American Center and PEN International condemned the restrictions on press coverage as “an obvious abridgement of the First Amendment right of all Americans to monitor official actions that clearly carry their own First Amendment concerns.” Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Buddy Roemer blasted Bloomberg, claiming his actions against the protesters put him on “the wrong side of history.” New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D) said the unannounced crack down raised “a number of serious civil liberties questions.” Photo credit: David Shankbone
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
He also has a navy: 4 sludge boats, some police boats and the Staten Island ferry.
And claims to ability to down aircraft, prolly referring to NYPD's 0.50 Barrett.
someone should tell this proud MAGOGian his days are numbered. "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
#2. To: Ada (#1)
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#3. To: tom007 (#0)
“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world,” he said. “I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.”
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