I am standing on a line waiting to get through security. A well to do white male older than me, all grey hair is behind me being barked at by the police to not talk to the other older white male that is on the other side of the rope for people that do not have to go through security.
The man behind me is stunned at being talked to the way but most of all that he can't talk to his associate...
I always thought Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List" was moving but way to gentle in the telling of the horror. Remember the smell of death after 9-11..... Multiple the death smell from 9-11 and multiple by millions. Imagine the death smell from concentration camps... but I do remember the scene when the rich Jews in Schindler's List don't get "it" and are put in a room with poor Jews.
I turned to the man and told him...."You think you are in a democracy? You are not. It is now like Communist Russia. Mike Bloomberg denied us a referendum. I lost him at the words "Mike Bloomberg". So I tried to add some humor. If you keep it up you will get arrested and she will strip search you.
He could not let it go. The guy was profoundly upset. I heard something about "Iraqi Judges. He was there to meet with them?
What?
He was still arguing and debating with the authorities with his sympathetic friend and people that later joined me told me the security guards were still talking about him.
I heard on the street, here in NYC we are training Iraqi Judges. What a joke! What a laugh. We don't even have a democracy here and we are pretending to set up a democracy in Iraq.
Didn't I read some where when researching CityTime that SAIC -- a huge money guzzler of NYC tax payer money was also responsible for a lack luster performance trying to rebuild the Iraqi media?
Read below....and my point is what are we doing trying to teach the Iraq People starting with their judges about democracy here in NYC when we have a little Emperor of NYC, Mike Bloomberg who bought a third term, I believe did not declare all his campaign expenditures as legally required which is a Misdemeanor A and I would like Christine Qiunn campaign expenditures and both of their staff's time sheets investigated especially those that work at city hall but hey that is just me.
Below read from Ali Winston's article on CityTime:
http://www.citylimits.org/news/articles/3513/a-show-of-hands/2
"But SAIC has also had high-profile problems over the years. In the early 1990s, the company and six of its employees pleaded guilty to making false statements in their handling of work at EPA Superfund sites. In 2004, the Pentagon's inspector general faulted SAIC's performance on a contract to rebuild the Iraqi media. The following year, the FBI blamed SAIC for botching the development of the bureau's new "Trilogy" information management system (although the Justice Department inspector general said the FBI deserved much of the blame). And the company was still wrangling into 2007 with the Greek government over whether SAIC deserved full payment for a security system it developed for the 2004 Athens Olympics."
http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2010/05/mike-bloombergs-citytime-is-tax-payers.html
p.s. The last time I served I was an alternate jury. The case I sat on the man I believe was guilty of selling drugs and he also perjured himself. He was also clearly a mess, poor and he had priors. If he was found guilty he would have spent way too long in jail so the jurors let him off and wished him good luck. He was selling pot in front of his Grandmother's home in a building where the majority of people did not welcome his presence and the NYPD risked their lives and do risk their lives trying to take drugs and dealers off the street.
