RUDY GIULIANI: DICTATOR OF NEW YORK
Will America Let Him Be Their Fuhrer Too?
By A. Kronstadt

We veteran New Yorkers remember the Giuliani years with loathing, and each of us have our own horror stories. I remember the day when at least ten cops, uniformed and undercover, poured into Tompkins Square Park with an arrest van. When they could not find enough beer drinkers and pot smokers to fill the van, they started hassling all of the neighborhood regulars at random. An old woman who lived in the environs of the park was sitting in her usual spot when a young male officer walked up and pointed to a long abandoned beer bottle under the bench, five feet from where she was sitting. He accused her of drinking it, without the least trace of respect due to one's elders, and pulled out his ticket book. At least a dozen people insisted to the cop that the woman had nothing to do with the bottle and had been sitting there, and each, including myself, was threatened with arrest in a tone of voice that none of us had ever heard except in a Nazi movie.

This was in the salad days of the Giuliani administration, in the spring of 1995, shortly after the cops were given their dark blue, almost black uniforms and the power to arrest people and put them in jail for 48 hours at will for things like beer drinking and pot smoking, which had been considered normal behavior in New York for years. The police got more and more arrogant, until genuine atrocities started to emerge, including torture and the shooting of completely innocent people, that made the expression "Giuliani Time," whether Abner Louima really heard it from the cops or not, a household expression for American fascism.

"Giuliani Time" was not a time of law and order, but of governmental lawlessness. Not only were the police riding roughshod over all of our constitutional rights, but the bureaucrats put in power by Rudy were robbing the city blind. Russell Harding, son of Liberal Party boss Ray Harding, a vital Giuliani ally, was appointed head of the city's Housing Development Administration. In that capacity, Harding stole a quarter of a million dollars in HDA funds and spent it on his general living expenses, including a child pornography habit that eventually landed him in jail. Giuliani's last police commissioner, Bernard Kerik, like many members of Rudy's own family, had deep connections among the mob -- he gave out taxpayers' money to his goombah friends and got off scott free.

Giuliani's so-called heroism in regard to the events of 9/11 is a complete fraud. Look at those 911 tapes in which people in the buildings are being told to stay where they are and await instructions. Because firemen and emergency personnel knew that the people in the Twin Towers were being told this, they felt impelled to make their foray into the doomed buildings and were themselves killed by the hundreds. If Giuliani had done anything to remedy that situation, I would not object to bestowing upon him the smarmy title of "America's Mayor," but in fact, his response was for shit and people died on account of him. On September 11, as the towers were still on fire, Giuliani told ABC's Peter Jennings that while at the site, he had been told that the buildings were going to collapse -- why did he not then order his people out before they got killed? [Indeed, there are some that read even more sinister meaning into that statement. [See http://www.911weknow.com/911-mysteries-movie.html]

Rudolf Giuliani is a very dangerous man, a threat to this nation's tradition of tolerance up there, at least, with Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon. Our exposé of the lifelong friendship between Giuliani and the abusive Monsignor Alan Placa is the first in a series of SHADOW articles, based on public domain information, intended to help put the Giuliani campaign out of business, and thereby avenge the old lady who had the misfortune of sitting next to that beer bottle in Tompkins Square Park.

[Look for an upcoming article in The SHADOW that will deal with Giuliani's sinister fascist party, the Manhattan Institute]