(A friendly casual visit from the President of the United States:
I doubt that, do you?)
Lifted from the New York Post Newspaper
By MURRAY WEISS, Criminal Justice Editor
Last Updated: 7:58 PM, May 13, 2010
Obama is the second President to visit. In 2002, President George W. Bush similarly thanked the NYPD in the wake of the destruction of the World Trade Center.
"I just wanted to stop by say, Thank you," Obama began during a 10-minute visit to the NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center....
"I know you folks are busy, but I just wanted to come by and say thank you. I was telling the mayor and the commissioner that ...."
Commentary:
At approximately 4:15 yesterday afternoon I was trying to make my way to 120 Wall Street where the WBAI office is located and the usual few minutes was much more than that. Lower Manhattan was closed off to everyone except those stationed to protect the President. For seemingly endless blocks stretching for miles the street appeared empty and this Casual visit of "I just wanted to come by and say thank you" was a night mere of formality and financial strain on a City already in compromised financial condition; two presidential helicopters, accompanied by several overhead helicopter to stationed to protect, thousands of police, motor cycles, limousines, police cars and unmarked cars and unmarked people punctuated with traffic cops at every step of the four block trip from subway to Wall street.
And who does he see.......the police. This is not a visit to thank the street ventures, the Vietnam Vets who were the identifiers of the car which was the object of terror. Those men disappear, again the invisible people of the city who make the city safe, who feed us, provide umbrellas and sun glasses and scarf and gloves to keep us warm when we rush out of the house improperly prepared for the versatile New York City weather.
If Obama had come to the City and said, I want to thank the police but first I want to thank the real heroes of the day, the men who didn't mess up the entire operation of terror control then I would have overlooked the inconvenience his trip meant to millions of New Yorkers trying to make their way to a second job or to their personal space of choice on Thursday after regular working hours.
The similarity in the mess up from failing to identify the potential threat, to the failure to immediately implement identification of the suspect, to finding the suspect on a PLAN! with doors closed ready to take off.........what did happen to the security the City is paying for instead of paying for education, health care etc.. The similarities in the ineptitude of the law enforcement army that is thrown in our faces everyday is staggering. But more than that this incidnt should put a dent in the ever growing movement of the 911 Truth seekers.
It is the incompetence of those we trust to protect us that is glaring in this incident and that is the real reason Obama came to New York City to say thank you. He is telling the public, reassuring us all that we are in safe hands just as George Bush did in 2002 because he knows that we aren't. All the money in the world can't stop a terrorist attack when done with minute attention to detail and money to effect the act.
The only real way to stop terrorism is to stop acting the part.
Killing is not the way to achieve peace
