Democratic strategist and “America’s Mayor” Rudy Giuliani, the Gestapo Cosa Nostra, got into a heated debate about speaker Pelosi’s accusation: “The CIA are LIARS.”
Giuliani ruled New York City with an iron fist, during a period dubbed “Giuliani Time” — when there were numerous accusations of police brutality against minorities — complaints of police abuse jumped 56% in the first four years of the Giuliani administration, and while the then Mayor Giuliani touted his “Quality of Life” and “Zero Tolerance policies,” the reality on the streets was extreme brutality, violations of the First Amendment and racist actions.
Perhaps the worst case of police brutality during “Giuliani Time” was the sexual assault of Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima, who was tortured by two Brooklyn police officers — Louima was severely beaten up, subjected to racial slurs and “sodomized.”
Therefore, it is no surprise that Giuliani supports TORTURE.
| A Timeline Of CIA Atrocities (by Steve Kangas) — The following timeline describes just a few of the hundreds of atrocities and crimes committed by the CIA: CLICK HERE |
From Publishers Weekly: With this lengthy but frequently gripping memoir, Shrum recounts his three-decade career in American politics, which he began as a speechwriter for New York’s Mayor John Lindsay and ended as a campaign strategist for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. More insider history than memoir, the book focuses almost exclusively on the author’s professional experience, featuring richly detailed accounts of his efforts working on Edward Kennedy’s, Al Gore’s and John Kerry’s unsuccessful presidential bids (conversely, Shrum covers his engagement and wedding to Marylouise, his wife of 18 years, in three swift pages). Unsurprisingly, given his background, Shrum writes with eloquence and passion; more unexpected is his disarming candor. He’s by turns effusive and brutal, for example waxing poetic about Edward Kennedy after vehemently criticizing Jimmy Carter. Later, he voices somewhat harsh ambivalence toward Bill Clinton. A deep sense of disappointment pervades the book: Shrum’s string of failed presidential campaigns led to talk of the “Shrum curse,” which the author never managed to overcome. Casual judgments and frank disclosures along the way make this a provocative and entertaining behind-the-scenes look at American politics.
From Booklist: With experience working with the presidential candidacies of eight Democrats, as well as on the elections of senators, governors, and mayors, and with a reputation that has ranged from wunderkind to curse, Shrum offers a long and broad perspective on the Democrats’ political strategizing over the past 30 years. Among his clients: George McGovern, Dick Gephardt, Al Gore, and John Kerry, as well as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Given their track records as winners and losers, Shrum’s involvement in their candidacies has left him with a reputation as “the black cat of American politics, someone who had connived, confused, consulted, and condemned” Democratic candidates. Shrum recalls candidates in unguarded, vulnerable moments, when they actually spoke their minds, and in calculating moments, when they wanted the words–and ideas–placed in their mouths. Shrum also recalls the infighting, self-destruction, and spin typical of American politics as it has evolved in the last three decades. Although he does detail his own shortcomings, he laments the tendency to blame the consultant when the campaign ends in defeat. An enlightening and amusing look at American politics by a consummate insider.
Rudy Giuliani’s ‘crass opportunism’ reflects on Mac: Dems
Friday, September 26th 2008
Rudy Giuliani is positioning his law firm to cash in on Wall Street’s train wreck – a move that has become a gift to political enemies of his pal John McCain.
Even as the nation’s $700 billion, taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailout was still being hashed out, the former mayor announced Thursday his high-powered law firm has set up a task force.
Its mission: to help corporate clients get a piece of the action – or keep the federal wolves from the door.
Giuliani is not the only one poised to profit from opportunities created by the mega-meltdown, but he is the most politically famous….. [MORE]
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In 1998 during an appearance on “Inside City Hall” a local cable television program on news station “New York 1,” Reverend Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, one of New York City’s most powerful and well-respected African American leaders, said of New York City’s Mayor, “I don’t think he likes black people.”
Then, speaking at a news conference along with other religious leaders and several Harlem residents who say they’ve been harassed by police, Butts added “People say ‘Reverend, why are you speaking out? The city is cleaner and safer.’ What I want to tell people is that it’s not happening in our community.”
Giuliani’s tenure as Mayor of New York was marked with police brutality. Giuliani’s brand of politics and politicking racially polarized and divided the city and, during what was economically the best of times, did nothing to alleviate poverty and even exacerbated the disparity between rich and poor.
Giuliani’s “stop and frisk,” and “zero tolerance” policing strategies came under intense criticism. His record on the First Amendment was disastrous and his use and abuse of governmental power is well documented…..[MORE]
As the country rapidly diversifies, Republicans are presenting a convention that is almost entirely white. To a large extent, the Republican Party still is — The White-Bigot Party.
Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black. One week after Democrats nominated the nation’s first black presidential candidate on the eve of the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Republicans have only one African American — Fox News’ resident Uncle Tom Michael S. Steele — scheduled to speak last night during prime time at their convention.
As McCain’s 96 year old mother gazed listlessly into the rafters of the convention hall and with ReTHUGlicans and a sprinkling of ReTHUGliTOMS salivating like hungry, poisonous black mambas,…. and howling like a pack of hyenas, Sarah ‘Barracuda‘ Palin delivered a heavily choreographed speech, designed to rally the THUG/BIGOT base of the Republican party.
The speech was delivered right after MAFIA GOON — the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani had finished mocking, insulting and mis-representing Obama’s positions…. and topping it up with a dose of 9/11 fear-mongering.
Rudy Giuliani “The Goon” Rips Into Obama
[Note:During his two "Iron Fist" terms as Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani in concert with his police force THUG-HANDLED minorities with "Mafia Viciousness." -- the most notorious events of Giuliani's tenure, included the execution-style killing of Amadou Diallo and the sadistic torture of Abner Louima -- by Giuliani's police force.] — see more info below.
At the beginning of her speech I sensed some tension in her, but the “Killer From Wasilla” unwinded and got more comfortable as the speech progressed.
She spoke of her family, including her eldest son, who is about to be deployed to Iraq in the US Army, and her younger son, who has Down’s Syndrome.
In the speech, she assailed Obama, Biden and the “Liberal” media: “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.” “We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”
Read…..working people — how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns ……is a direct appeal to the White BIGOT VOTE.
The Barracuda (reading a speech prepared by McCain’sTHUGS) went on to mis-represent and mock Obama’s record, lying about her own at the same time, and smothering everything with heavy doses of recycled Republican Fear-Mongering.
“And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.” But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform – not even in the state senate.”
This could be America’s next Vice-President
This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word “victory” except when he’s talking about his own campaign.”
“But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot – what exactly is our opponent’s plan?”
“What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet?” The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.”
“America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it….,” said Sarah.
Towards the end of the speech, when she got more comfortable, “Dame Sarah” changed gears, dishing out “time-tested” Republican insults: “Taxes are too high!” . . . “Obama will raise your taxes!” . . . “Tax increases!” . . . “He will raise income taxes!” … “He will raise payroll taxes!” … “He will raise investment income taxes!” … “He will raise the death tax!” . . . “He will raise business taxes!” . . . ["Big Government!"] . . . ["Obama will KILL YOU!"] . . . ["Obama is a MUSLIM"] . . . ["Obama is a Kenyan Communist!"] . . . ["The Terrorists are here .. in this hall!"] . . . ["I'll create more jobs!"] . . . ["I'll cut the deficit!"] . . . ["I'll start the war!"] . . . ["I'll keep those Negroes in their place!"]……LOL!, pure PoliTRICKS!
Meanwhile — Overheard: Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November. Biden’s comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
But his statements represent the Democrats’ strongest vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years. “If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued,” Biden said during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, according to ABC.
“[N]ot out of vengeance, not out of retribution,” he added, “out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.” …..[ MORE ]
REFERENCES:
1.Rudy Giuliani — “America’s THUG”
They call him “America’s Mayor.” But to blacks that title sugarcoats Rudy Giuliani’s real reputation as one of the most racially divisive leaders in the nation. Peter Noel’s book puts Giuliani’s often-ignored record of oppressing the “other New York” front and center in the 2008 presidential race.
Noel was a witness to “Giuliani time” in New York. As the race beat journalist for “The Village Voice,” he reported exclusively on the police brutality that rained down on blacks, and the denigration of black leadership by Giuliani. In this collection of his exposs, Noel provides stunning insights into the most notorious events of Giuliani’s tenure, including the execution-style killing of Amadou Diallo and the sadistic torture of Abner Louima. Both men-like many black victims of Giuliani’s stop-and-frisk policing-were innocent of any wrongdoing.
This brutality sparked a new black activist movement. Scores, including Jesse Jackson, were arrested-and Peter Noel was there to cover it. No journalist was more insightful about the rise of Al Sharpton,Khallid Muhammad’s “Million Youth March,” and Giuliani’s demonization of David Dinkins, the city’s first black mayor. There are interviews with major political players, inside accounts of the shifting alliances and violent conflicts between ethnic groups, and a stinging critique of the white-dominated media. And then there is Peter Noel’s interview with Giuliani, which took the form of a street fight in Harlem.
In these eloquent, often searing pieces, written in an outraged and authentic voice, Peter Noel spoke truth to the power of an “Afriphobic” mayor. In this revealing book, he still does.
