A trip down memory lane, a description of NYC pre-Guilani, when carrying 'mugger's money' was de rigueur:

Saturday, November 02, 2013
It's De Blasio Time
Posted by Daniel Greenfield

Do you miss the old New York City? Remember when subway trains were covered in graffiti, a news hour began with six shootings and everyone who lived in the city had been mugged at least once?

Remember when Times Square had more strip clubs than theaters and when you could afford an apartment in the village because it was a drug infested mess?

Remember when the city and everyone living in it were on the verge of bankruptcy and the only people who had money lived upstate or in a small cluster of Manhattan?

Remember when everything was grimy and had a layer of filth, when people moved to the city because they wanted to slum, when nothing worked and no one cared and the only difference between New York and Chicago was that it had taller buildings?

If you miss that classic New York, there's good news because Bill de Blasio is bringing it back.

The muggers are coming back. The squeegee men are coming back. The crazy people randomly stabbing you on the subway, the gangs shooting each other over turf, the race rioters marching through neighborhoods and shouting, "Whose streets, our streets"-- they're all coming back.

Because the polls have spoken. And it's De Blasio time now.
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More and comments about a big government intrusive 'fix' to handle a big government creted problem:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/11/...lasio-time.html

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Workingstiff said...

I don't understand the support for "Stop and Frisk by NY cops. Or keeping surveillance cameras on Mosques?

What's the point of booting out socialists/commies and replacing them with fascists who violate one's civil liberties using the same methods for a different ideology? The instruments of force and infringement at the same, regardless to whom they are handed off to with election time comes. Advocating more force and enforcement to deal with the bad apples in society only provides the ready made arsenal for the next idiots voted into office by a idiot majority to employ upon us. We need to de-power government and enpower the individual to take care of themselves, to exercise the right to bear personal arms so as to make stop and frisk unnecessary by a police state, as people will be able to care of themselves instead of relying on Big Brother.

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Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...

That's maybe how things should work, but it's not how they work.

In hard blue cities, there's no option for disempowering government. That's only a possibility on a national level. In NYC, there's only an option for making life livable or survivable.

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