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Meet the guy who claims he's going to clean up Boston
By adamg on Wed, 03/28/2007 - 4:45pm
Curtis Sliwa, who will make sure the cameras are rolling before he gets off the plane from New York tomorrow to proclaim a New City Order, says torturing terror suspects is OK, that women should not express opinions in groups because all those hormones cloud their brains and that he wouldn't mind taking a baseball bat to Rosie O'Donnell "like a pinata." What's not to like?
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WTF?
Boston still has one of the lowest crime and murder rates of major cities in the U.S. I don't think we want/need to encourage crazy Gestapo wanna-bees invading our city.
If the Boston Police believe this is a good idea then they are even more clueless and out of touch about the wants and needs of the population then I thought.
BPD is NOT encouraging this Hugo Chavez lookalike
Police Commissioner rebuffs Guardian Angels' offer to patrol Boston streets.
Great News
I am glad to hear that the BPD joins the rest of us in resisting vigilantly policing.
What an utter Douche. I've
What an utter Douche. I've never heard of this guy, and I liked it that way.
He looks like he runs some sort of millitant pizza place.
Could someone pleas enlighten me as to how an army of clowns from NYC with red berrets are going to stop crime in Boston.
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Sliwa? No. The Idea? Yes.
Here's the thing: Curtis Sliwa is a gigantic asshat. He deserves most of the condemnation he receives. However, the idea of mobilizing some portion of the citizenry to add to the protection afforded by the BPD is not, IMHO, a completely horrendous idea.
HOW that mobilization can best be accomplished is certainly a higly-debatable question, but if some folks are willing to give up their time to do what they THINK is a public service for others, we might do better than to just condemn them as "an army of clowns" or "gestapo wannabes."
Really?
There are plenty of opportunities for those interested in volunteering to improve our communities. Giving thugs little red berets and telling them to keep the peace should not be one of them.
As I Said...
As I said, HOW it might be done is debatable. However, my point was that calling people clowns, thugs, gestapo, and other derogatory terms is not the best way to get other folks, whom YOU might approve of, to volunteer.
But ...
shouldn't the volunteers be local, not invaders from NYC who know nothing about our city?
Ugh, forced to defend the Guardian Angels for just a sec
They do tend to rely on local volunteers; in fact, Sliwa claim he came here because some old Boston Guardian Angels (presumably not the ones caught robbing somebody at Kenmore) asked him to, not because the New York Post wrote about a murdered young white woman (and here is where I will stop, because otherwise I would start ranting again about publicity-whoring thugs from New York who didn't seem to care much about Boston when it was just black kids getting murdered without any attention from the New York media, sorry, Suldog).
It's not that she's white, it's that she lived in NYC
That's what got Sliwa's attention (and that of the New York Post, etc.)
Well ...
I think it's because she was a young white woman who lived in NYC.
No Problem
Don't worry about me, Adam. You're even-handed enough that I'd never take offense from a little give-and-take here.
My own experiences with the G.A. are certainly limited. I'm no expert concerning them (or any other groups like them) but I do remember seeing them in their original incarnation in this city (back in the 80's), when I rode the T all the time, and I admired the fact that some people were willing to give up many hours of their time, unpaid, to provide T riders with heightened security - or, at least, the sense of same.
Those that I actually saw in the subway were unfailingly polite, although somewhat stony-faced. The only people I ever heard complain about them at that time were the police. I know for sure that most of my fellow riders were not unhappy when one would station himself in a car we were riding in. I saw many people go up to them and say "thank you" as they were getting off at their stops.
There certainly may be stories of an opposite nature and I'm more than willing to give them a listen.