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New York City
NYC:Police
State on wheels?
injusticebusters first picked up this piece from the
Justice Line. We recently heard from Robert Lederman who has
sent us an update
to this scary story. You think it couldn't happen here? Bet you
didn't know what was happening there! Follow this story through
a series of letters to the editor from Robert Lederman on-the-spot
witness.
Our original story from four
years ago concerned the police, in their eagerness to clear the
streets of riff-raff and having been brought up short for shooting
them, had overfilled the facilities at Rikers Island and several
paddy wagons drove around Manhattan streets, filled with an indiscriminate
variety of suspected criminals who sometimes stayed in these
vehicles for many days, awaiting their time in court.
The Saskatoon New York City
connection: Corruption and bullying.
Why should we care? We don't
live there. We should care because corrupt police departments
-- or naive citizens groups all over the continent are promoting
aspects of this inhuman social experiment as a quick fix to street
crime.
This was posted first in 1998
to make a bold comparison between two seemingly dissimilar cities.
As I write this on November 18, 2003, a couple weeks after Don Atchison has taken office,
it no longer seems so bold.
Meanwhile, Robert Lederman,
the source for the material we used to put on this page, has
been continuing his legal battles against the police and administration
who have sanitized Times Square and other areas where poor artists
could eke out a living by selling their wares. He has been arrested
dozens of times and so far the prosecutors have failed to make
their charges stick.
More recently, Lederman has
been exposing Arnold Schwarznegger's Nazi connections and bringing
forward more information about the infamous Manhattan Institute,
the think tank which George Bush relies upon and which had its
murky roots in the bringing to America of Nazi anti-Communist
experts. Update on Dueck
I haven't been to New York
since 1975 when I went with a couple friends to see the Kinks
perform "Soap Opera."
We had a great time and took
lots of photos. We got chased by a security guard in the subway
because we didn't know we weren't allowed to take pictures there.
(I will eventually document more fully as I draw on my personal
comparisons between NYC policing and East German border guards
who, in 1962 were my previous experience with being denied the
right to photograph. For now I will say the experiences were
about equally scary. I'll get into my border crossing adventures
on the RCMP Spies page where I intend
to tell about my many trips to the U.S. after being banned under
the McCarren Act in 1974.
Now I've had tons of experience
with being told not to photograph. One of my favorite oldies
is the one man protest band, below. I can relate!
Lederman's
portraits of Guiliani as Hitler and a general enemy of the people.
In the two and a half years since we first started carrying the
Lederman pieces, our own local stories have taken off and we
need to keep on top of them. We firmly believe, though, that
Saskatchewan people and people everywhere need to see themselves
as part of a larger, coherent world and that similar forces are
operating on all of us. The New York stories and the Narco News
stories provide examples of the kind of journalism we want to
be part of. Robert
Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics) ARTISTpres@aol.com
(718) 369-2111
"Giuliani-as-Hitler"
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Truth can never be
told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.