You may remember that last week, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg made the sudden announcement of an emergency press conference on the subject of "terror". What you may not know is that to people who work inside the news media and in television broadcasting, the rare event of a sudden Sunday evening press conference with top officials is either an actual emergency, or the mark of someone desperately trying to get ahead of the 'weekly news cycle' - perhaps in order to bury one story with an even more sensational one.
Leading up to last weekend, both Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD had earned plenty of negative attention that they were desperate to divert the public away from. Between the regular reports of NYPD brutality being inflicted on the peaceful protesters in lower Manhattan and the middle of the night NYPD assault on the Occupy encampment in Liberty (Zuccotti) Park just earlier in the week - which involved the NYPD securing the ground and airspace from all news media in apparent efforts to disallow any evidence of their assault on the protesters and the illegal destruction of their property - as well as their blatant contempt for Judge Lucy Billings' temporary restraining order against the City and the NYPD the next morning - it was going to take a serious hijacking of the media's attention in order to redirect the public's focus.
While holding a very rare and in this case, quite unnecessary Sunday evening press conference on the subject of a supposed "terror" suspect who was both already in custody and considered by the FBI to be no legitimate threat, the Mayor and Police Commissioner - who recently found themselves in hot water over a slew of civil rights violations against both protesters and journalists attempting to report on the city's aggressive suppression of the Occupy protests - desperately pushed all of their chips into the center of the table and apparently hoped to bluff the public into fear-based loyalty, while at the same time distracting us from their recent crimes against democracy.
Within 90 seconds of the start of the press conference, a video was shown of a car blowing up. That video was created by the NYPD. So was the bomb used in the video. Why is the NYPD assembling bombs and video taping them blowing up cars? Why was there a theatrical "model" bomb at the press conference? If they arrested the suspect just after he was "drilling holes" in preparation for a bomb, as they said, then he had no completed bomb at the time of his arrest. This begs the repeat of the question:
Why is the NYPD producing shock and awe propaganda videos of cars blowing up, when their suspect did not even have a completed test bomb?!
If this were a legitimate legal case, wouldn't it be inappropriate for these officials to produce propaganda like this against their suspect and show it to the news media and general public before that suspect even has a day in court to be officially charged? Wouldn't it be inappropriate for city officials to poison the potential jury pool by making and publicizing this such propaganda? Wouldn't this kind of conduct hurt the prosecutors case against the suspect, if in fact it were a legitimate case? If they are willing to threaten the stability of this such case once it is actually tried in a court of law, with these theatrical props and unnecessary, but visually frightening video presentations - what might be the real motive behind these presentations to the public? Does the suggestion of a terrorist, combined with the video of an explosion, frighten you?
Why would city officials show us their own video of an exploding car that is in no way directly connected to their suspect?
Bloomberg stated during the press conference that the suspect, "was not part of a larger conspiracy." He also referred to the suspect several times as a "lone wolf" as he pleaded his case about this supposed solo-terror-threat. The police commissioner repeated this term more than once as well. So, why the concerted branding of, and emphasis on a "lone wolf" aspect of this supposed suspect? One reason might be that the City and the NYPD want to give the clear impression that there is no need for any outside entities - FBI or otherwise - to further investigate their "terror threat" allegations.
In any event, within 48 hours of the press conference, some interesting points came to light.
Not only did the FBI not consider the suspect to be a credible threat, but they apparently also considered the NYPD's tactics in dealing with him, to be dangerously close to entrapment.
More than 50% of the general public who have commented on the Billionaire Mayor, Mike Bloomberg's facebook post announcing this arrest, have shown up to display their lack of faith in the honesty of Bloomberg's terroristic press conference. This figure holds strong even though it appears that many of the posts have somehow been censored/removed. This is reassuring that the fear-mongering tactics of the Bush era are still no longer welcome among the majority - or at least the majority of those who feel obliged to speak their minds on such matters.
Even the mainstream media questioned the timing of this sudden and rare Sunday evening announcement.
However Bloomberg aims to distract the public, or to scare us back into submission and blind obedience - the awakening of the world around him cannot be stopped. His pathetic attempt at playing the terror-card is as transparent now as it was initially (see our coverage PRE & POST press conference). His crimes against The People of New York City, the Occupy Movement, and democracy itself, are on record. He cannot wash away what he has done - and we will not forget.
Not only did the FBI not consider the suspect to be a credible threat, but they apparently also considered the NYPD's tactics in dealing with him, to be dangerously close to entrapment.
More than 50% of the general public who have commented on the Billionaire Mayor, Mike Bloomberg's facebook post announcing this arrest, have shown up to display their lack of faith in the honesty of Bloomberg's terroristic press conference. This figure holds strong even though it appears that many of the posts have somehow been censored/removed. This is reassuring that the fear-mongering tactics of the Bush era are still no longer welcome among the majority - or at least the majority of those who feel obliged to speak their minds on such matters.
Even the mainstream media questioned the timing of this sudden and rare Sunday evening announcement.
However Bloomberg aims to distract the public, or to scare us back into submission and blind obedience - the awakening of the world around him cannot be stopped. His pathetic attempt at playing the terror-card is as transparent now as it was initially (see our coverage PRE & POST press conference). His crimes against The People of New York City, the Occupy Movement, and democracy itself, are on record. He cannot wash away what he has done - and we will not forget.
Having ignored The People of New York City twice voting to keep their mayoral term limits in place and skirting their wishes by throwing his monied-weight around to stay in power, we already knew that Billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg is a tyrant. Now we know that he is a terrorist too.
Mayor Bloomberg, this is your legacy.
Your fortune may have been just enough to keep you in power after you had worn out your welcome in New York City, but every single penny of your enormous empire cannot save you from your place in history.
Our legacy will be to create a better world; one without the likes of criminal oligarchs like you.
ter·ror·ism
[ter-uh-riz-uh
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noun
1.
the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce,especially for political purposes.
3.
a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
