did you hear the joke
about the federal judge and the
“she
the lawyer comes into the court to defend the rights of terrorists and he the
judge goes along with it.”
pretty
funny, wouldn’t you say?
this
week, two people share the “hey abbott award” for
being just plain dopey. the honors go to
federal judge robert sweet and donna
lieberman, the boss of the
donna asked for a ruling that would prohibit cops from checking out
people’s purses and knapsacks and similar carry-all things at demonstrations
and big festivals like times square on new year’s eve.
bobby
basically said: sure thing, no
problem. i go
along with your idea on making it tough for police officers to protect the big
apple.
now,
we are willing to bet that bobby and donna are not
aware of the fact the city’s cab drivers are a great deal smarter than either
one of them. did you know that most taxi
drivers in this city have a decal on their cab that invites police officers to
stop and check them whenever they want.
there
are no conditions. there is no probable
cause. if the cop feels like stopping a
taxi and taking a better look at the passenger (especially at 3am in the
morning in the south bronx) the cab driver loves it
because chances are it means he will live to see his wife later that day.
since
bobby doesn’t hang with the common folk and we can assure you that donna certainly doesn’t, neither
one of them has a clue about what it is like to be on the streets of
we
took a little poll this week of passengers riding in cabs to find out if they
would be disturbed by a police officer asking to look into their bag at a
demonstration or a festival. surprise. surprise. not one
single passenger said he/she had a problem.
so
what have proved thus far? the average
taxi driver and the average passenger are a great deal smarter than the judge
and the lawyer.
now
speaking of the
two
years when our man belding commented that the deputy
commissioner for counter terrorism should never have been appointed because he
was a loser from the central intelligence agency, belding
was subsequently visited by police officers at his home at night who sort of said, the deputy commissioner didn’t like adverse
comments. belding
called the
two
months ago when belding was arrested and kept in a
cell for two hours at the amtrak railroad 125th
street station for taxing pix of the trains, he again called the new york civil liberties union and they said, they didn’t see a
problem with that either.
about a month ago, when belding
was taking a video of people going through a stop sign, car after car after
car. belding was stopped
by the police and made to erase the video while the cars continued to go
through the stop signs. the
donna libeberman the head of the
as
for the federal judge, the honorable robert sweet, we
better be careful about what we say about him because the next thing you know
the federal bureau of investigation will be knocking on belding’s
door.
let
us take the chance.
hey
bobby, you need to get out on to the streets of
we
mere mortals are afraid of terrorists and other bad guys.
you
can look into our knapsacks, our purses and even our socks if you want to………