Bloomberg Refuses National Guard Entry Into Brooklyn Because They Carry Guns
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, November 3, 2012, 9:50 PM
Mayor Michael Bloomberg turned the National Guard away from Brooklyn because they were carrying guns.
NewsBusters reported, via FOX Nation:
Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz’s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn — arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state.
“We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”
Markowitz demanded the National Guard’s help just an hour before Bloomberg’s press conference, claiming that the NYPD and FDNY are “brave — but overwhelmed” by all the challenges Sandy brought when it visited the borough on Monday night: flooding, power outages, and looting.
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Rhoda R commented:
Is Bloomberg trying to get strung up by infuriated New Yorkers?
Sasja commented:
This man is a bloomin’ idiot but most of his supporters probably agree with him. I’ve told people that most of our ignorant masses reside on both coasts and when one looks at who they elect to run their state, cities and towns, it cannot be disputed.
Dave Thul commented:
The National Guard only carries weapons when authorized and required. I have been in several flood duty missions that I never even thought of having a weapon issued for.
Stella Baskomb commented:
Cheese,- no wonder you can never find a cop in NYC when you need one!
bg commented:
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via email..
Heritage Foundation Radio
Ernest Istook Show
November 2, 2012
“This is the first time I’ve seen where the military has been,
uh, basically, silenced. When they cannot answer a direct yes
or no question from the Chairman of the House Armed Services
Committee.”
“It’s not me, it’s the Congress and the responsibility we have,
constitutionally, to look after our defense…We’re not able to do
our job if we can’t get information and the commander-in-chief
or somebody that he is over, has told them they cannot respond
to us.”
“I just think that the whole thing smacks of a coverup and the
President could clear this all up if he would just go before the
American people… we’re getting all kinds of information but
it’s coming from Fox News…and yet the one that knows it all,
that could clear it all up, is out campaigning and is totally silent
on the issue”
- Congressman Buck McKeon (R-CA)
Chairman, House Armed Services Committee
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Big Red commented:
This man is skating on dangerously thin ice right now. Can you say recall?
Stella Baskomb commented:
“The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”
OK, OK, – if that means Bloomberg is bringing back Guiliani’s program of stop-and-frisk ?
Sasja commented:
Who cares if they carry guns or not? What has that to do with providing much needed help to the victims of Sandy? Victims of Sandy are now victims of Doomberg and his dimwitted ideas.
TXPatriot commented:
They wanted a Dem running the place. It doesn’t get any dimmer.
Quite a contrast from Guiliani after 9/11 though, wouldn’t you say?
Texas_Treeroach commented:
Oh great! The National Guard carries guns, so they can’t help!
The last time a cop in NY pulled his gun on a looter, 17 innocent bystanders got shot.
But you go ahead Bloomberg; you’re digging your own political grave!!!
Unfortunately, more innocent people are in harm’s way, thanks to your insanity!
bg commented:
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Breaking The War Mentality
by Barack Obama
March 10, 1983
[In 1933 the German establishment thought it could use Hitler to restore a modicum of order to the confused and confusing Weimar Republic. In fact, Hitler did strengthen the German establishment, but not exactly in the way the bankers and businessmen had wanted; and now, fifty years later, it is clear who was using whom. Nevertheless, the Western World did not complain in 1933 because Hitler, though a fascist and a totalitarian, was seen, like countless American puppet dictators today, as someone who leaves the established order in place.
Not so the Greens. If a group of young, anti-establishment pacifists wiith unusual ideas and uncomfortable answers to hard questions terrifies us more today than Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels did back in 1933, our terror says more about us than it does about the Greens or the Germans. It indicates that we have failed to comprehend the meaning of Nazism and blind obedience to authority in their full horror, and that we, unlike the Greens, have yet ourselves to learn the democratic lesson that we have taught the Germans so well.]
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donh commented:
Doomberg thinks there are too many people alive…posing a threat to the environment. He is handling this crisis like he wants a few thousand people to drop dead from intentional neglect hidden behind a veiled disguise of well organized incompetence.
Doomberg is the man who ultimately sunk Obama’s last hopes of a win by blowing the Sandy response.
The national guard should be in there evacuating people to places where there is power. Setting people up in an armory or finding them motel rooms north of the city.
Sasja commented:
Rush talked about how certain circumstances provide teachable moments. This is one of many.
From his show Friday. I should add that the marathon was still scheduled. I only state this for those critics who try to find one “oops” moment.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/11/02/teachable_moment_the_epic_failure_of_liberalism_to_deal_with_hurricane_sandy
Mama Grizzly commented:
He’s covering for Obama. There are several ideas regarding this newest conspiracy.
Thoughts on the “Sandy Coverup”?
Oliver commented:
OT – too funny not to share:
Million Muppet March Falls 999,004 Muppets Short
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/11/03/million-muppet-march-falls-999004-muppets-short/
Noovuss commented:
BG #5
I’m a little confused by this post?
What does it have to do with the situation concerning the National Guard?
What purpose does it serve to constantly spam with off subject remarks and links?
bigkahuna commented:
Maybe Obama’s youth militia/ army / corpse can help LOL
Mama Grizzly commented:
Some storms are man made… this one may have been designed to deflect attention from Benghazi, or it is simply retaliatory in some way. Nothing, and I do mean NOTHING, makes sense about how this is being handled. Just yesterday they cancelled the marathon. Dead bodies are everywhere. No one is doing anything significant. The right people who COULD actually make a difference are being denied access.
Yes, you can SAY it’s just because Dems are idiots and you would be right… but there’s more to it. For some reason they don’t want the National Guard–whose job it is to HELP in situations of disaster–to help an overwhelmed police/emergency personnel force. They don’t want those National Guard guys ANYWHERE near these disaster areas.
What, oh what, would they discover, one wonders… Who, oh who, might talk, one wonders…
Like Benghazi, the facts will come out. And I don’t think it’s gonna be pretty.
bg commented:
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Noovuss #16 November 3, 2012 at 10:13 pm
try connecting a dot or two, guns are used in wars..
God Bless Our Beloved US Troops..
Obama suppressing the military vote
[Wonder why absentee ballots being returned by the military is so low
this year? For example, in September, the pivotal state of Ohio received
about 9700 absentee ballot requests, whereas in 2008 there were over
32,000. The answer: Pentagon report: Obama administration fails to set
up voting offices on bases.
The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act mandates that every
military base, except those in war zones, have a voter assistance office
to ensure troops can register to vote and get absentee ballots. There
are about 229 military bases worldwide. Now, only 116 will be open for
voting assistance.
Denying our military voting assistance is unconscionable. Our military
personnel put their lives in jeopardy to protect Americans. But our
government is not vigorously supporting their right to vote. Yet, in
America the government is requiring welfare agencies to assist
voters by providing absentee ballots.
This willful neglect of the military voters smells rotten and
spicious. Shame on you, Obama. Our country deserves better.
Lorraine Koster, Sparks]
Absentee ballots may have been destroyed in crash
[Federal officials say that absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military
serving in Afghanistan may have been burned in a plane crash.
A top official in the Federal Voting Assistance Program this week notified
election officials across the nation that a transport plane crashed at
Shindad Air Base on Oct. 19.
The crash resulted in the destruction of 4,700 pounds
of mail inbound to troops serving in the area.
Federal officials in their email to state election offices said they did
not know if any ballots were destroyed. They also said the lost mail
was limited to one zip code.
But they recommended that election officials resend a new ballot to
anyone who requested one since the first ballot may have been
destroyed in the crash and fire.]
Soldier Pays $90 to Vote Absentee
[What’s the value of being able to vote? For one
junior Army officer, it was worth almost $100.
After 2nd Lt. Benjamin Nygaard had a few conversations
with military colleagues about the challenges of getting
an overseas absentee ballot in on time, he decided he
wasn’t taking any chances.]
Active service members upset
over removal from voting rolls
[TAMPA BAY, Florida - Local service members who have spent years
serving the country are discovering this fall that they aren't allowed
to vote in the presidential election.
Valrico resident and Navy Captain Peter Kehrig, who has been abroad
for five years tells 10 News he feels cheated by a system that removed
him from the rolls.
Florida State Law requires county supervisor of elections offices to
perform regular "maintenance" on its voter rolls to eliminate voters
who have been convicted of felonies, moved out of the county, or
may have died.
Voters who miss two consecutive general elections (2010 and 2008,
for instance) are mailed a letter to their residence warning them they
will be removed from the rolls. But since the post office only forwards
mail for six months, Kehrig never got it.]
MILITARY ENDORESMENTS
God Damn Our Military Hating President Obama..
not to mention the bankers & businessmen..
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Noovuss commented:
#18 Mama
What are you thinking they will find?
I admit that you have got me in a state of curiosity……
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