Friday, March 03, 2006

Mayor Bloomberg is an Asshole and a Queer

So like I went out last night to see Sophia Ramos and her band @ a small pub in lower Manhattan and she ROCKED da house.... but that's not the point of this post....

the guy at the door asked me for ID... now a mature gentleman of my age shouldn't be asked for "proof" so, I just had to ask him wassup with the ID checking? is this like a homeland security thing? and he says, no it's Bloomberg... gotta check everybody... and we talked about this for a minute. apparently the city is "cracking down" on all these little clubs, hitting them with fines, citations and violations for the smallest ridiculous stupid shit that they can find or make up an excuse for. Bloomberg is squeezing out all these cool little clubs and pubs that makes New York a great place to hang out and selling the space to his cronies so they can convert them into more of those overpriced chic velvet-rope discos for Truly Fabulous Snobs & Queers.

one club he told me had to close down and another was just hit with $3000 in fines. They got fined because some people were dancing! So I asked him, don't you fight it? take it to court and plead not guilty - demand a trial! and he's like no, we just pay.... I'm like... whaddya mean you just pay. this is a shakedown! this is harassment! you have to harrass them back! fight it! otherwise they're just gonna keep doin' it! I know my way around a courtroom. I know the legal system is a game, the judges are all pimps, the lawyers are all whores and the rest of us are johns. it's all a big shakedown to them. and if you don't play the game they WILL fuck you.

at this point the fellow was NOT into continuing this conversation - which is something I really don't get - this fellow would rather bend over and take it up the ass then even talk about standing up and fighting. that is sad and pathetic. and what's really sad is that most club owners just go along with it - they don't want to be hassled.

And it's not just the clubs - NYC police are harassing everybody - slapping people with fines for sitting on the stairs, putting a bag of groceries on the seat in the subway... any excuse they can make up. The NYPD have become gov't licensed bandits who prey on the innocent but are too lazy to go after bad guys 'cause that might entail hard work.

This is the same Mayor who hosted the RNC and had THOUSANDS of people arrested for no reason at all, rounded up like sheep and corralled into a filthy bus depot for days with no phone call, no access to lawyers, not even charged with a crime.

and what do people do? they pay the fines..... WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE! FIGHT BACK!!!

is this not like the abused child who has been beaten or raped his or her whole life? The abused child just bends over and takes another beating whereas a "healthy" person would fight back.

IF YOU DON'T FIGHT BACK IT WILL JUST GET WORSE

OK you ask - how do you fight back? 2 simple words:

NOT GUILTY

You demand a trail - get a court date. don't allow then to intimidate you into a plea. you demand your right to face your accuser - that means if the policeman or city official who issued the summons is not present you can have your case dismissed. Which means that the courts have to pay the cops overtime to show up. Which means that the judges have to be present to hear your case, and they have to get paid too. which means it costs the city money when you fight your case. I'm not gonna guarantee that you'll win. That's not the point. The point is to tie up the court calendar. Make it as difficult as possible for them.

Make it so it is not cost-effective for them to harass you and they will stop.

got it?

so get out there and pass this on to every club owner in New York!!