New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is like a Coen Brothers movie sometimes. Just when I’m tempted to laugh at some inane utterance of his, I realize how utterly unfunny and disturbing it really is. Regarding security in the wake of the Boston bombing, he had this to say:
The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry, but we live in a complex word where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.
Oh, hell no.
I don’t care how much he tries to look like the reluctant but resigned guardian. No amount of imagined protection is going to compensate for the rights quashed in its service, and no politician who suggests such a thing deserves to hold office.
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So essentially, he wants the terrorists to win? I did not endure the Bush years for this.
2013…. not 2012