On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:59:15 -0700 Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> so when will the next effort to "clean up" the park occur? I'm sure it won't be long. But one gets the sense that as long as there are a lot of people there, Bloomie is unwilling to risk a large-scale police riot with the whole world watching (to exhume a phrase from my youth). I daresay he knows what the cops are like, and realizes that once he looses those dogs, he loses any control he might have had of the situation, and puts it in the hands of people who want nothing more than to crack heads and kick ass and maybe even indulge in some gunplay. Bloomie isn't a cop-buff thug like Giuliani; he's a cold corporate-managerial bastard. He's quite willing to call security and have somebody roughed up in the back room, but he doesn't want some shocking spectacle of mass brutality. -- -- Michael J. Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://www.cars-suck.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
