Michael Bloomberg Billionaire Celebrates Last Day in Office With Mass Arrests of Concert-Goers

To mark his last day as Caudillo- Oops! Mayor- that's an easy mistake to make- of New York City, the billionaire Michael Bloomberg sicced his "private army" (his words) the New York Police Department (NYPD) on people attending a Phish concert at Madison Square Garden.

His police arrested "at least" 228 people, mostly on "drug" charges. Some were sellers, some were users. Phish concertgoers, like "Deadheads" (Grateful Dead fans) are known "drug users." So this was rather like hyenas attacking a herd of wildebeest.

This occurred on New Year's Eve, last night, in the last hours of the plutocrat's repressive reign.

Bloomberg has managed to outdo his predecessor as Mayor, Rudolph "Hess" Giuliani, in oppression. He had his "private army" round up thousands of would-be protesters and just passers-by during the Republican National Convention when it was held in New York. (What, you believed that bullshit in the U.S. "Constitution's" "Bill of Right" about "the right of the people to peaceably assemble... shall not be abridged"? Well, I guess a sophist could say Hey, the U.S. "authorities" don't "abridge" it, they positively crush it by force, if the cause being demonstrated for is something they don't like.) They were held for days and forced to lie in dirty oil in a makeshift jail helpfully provided by the reactionary owner of Chelsea Piers, a private exercise "club." That violated a legal requirement under city and state law for their speedy arraignment- a mere technicality.

Bloomberg ramped up a racist program of mass street searches and blacks and Hispanics, his goons subjecting hundreds of thousands to hostile and humiliating searches yearly.

He ordered his cops to hunt out people carrying their own marijuana for arrest, setting records for possession arrests. (And this stinking hypocrit smoked marijuana himself. But that's par for the course for U.S. political rulers- other prominent examples among a zillion others being Bill Clinton and Al Gore, and George Bush, who was also a cokehead and a drunk. And also Barack Obama, a heavy grass smoker in college and probably high school too, who has waged war on medical marijuana dispensaries in California. He also refuses to free Federal marijuana prisoners. Combining cynicism and viciousness, our masters persecute others for smoking what they smoked.)

Bloomberg's "army" crushed the Occupy Movement in New York, in the process seizing and gratuitously destroying tens of thousands of dollars of laptops seized (photos of smashed laptops were posted online, after they had been seized and carted off to "Sanitation Department" garages, where they were apparently systematically smashed with baseball bats, given the curvatures of normally flat machines) and books. Every police state method was used: agents provocateurs, infiltrators, electronic spying and hacking, audio and video and other surveillance from specially-equipped spy trucks, and more.

Bloomberg also unleashed his police to turn the City into an Orwellian surveillance state, with tens of thousands of cameras- mostly set up outside and in the lobbies of private businesses- feeding video into the NYPD's lair downtown. Using facial recognition and other tracking technology, dissidents are "monitored" as they move about the city, the better to build dossiers on them, plot harassment tactics, surreptitiously enter their premises when they are away, and so on.

Bloomberg's police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, a former Marine and Vietnam War criminal, put CIA officers in charge of political repression in the police.

Until the bitter end, the Bloomberg regime pursued an appeal of the lawsuit brought against it over his massive stop-and-frisk institutionalized racist harassment, even though Bloomberg knew that his successor, Bill deBlasio, would drop the suit (de Blasio became Mayor today January 1st). deBlasio has already announced that the appeal would be dropped and the Federal judge's remedies would be enacted. (We will see.)

In short, the oppressor Billionaire marks his last day in official power in a manner appropriate with his repressive reign. Good riddance, Mayor Moneybags.

see also "Raymond Kelly And Bashir Assad," and "U.S. Ruling Class Determined to Prevent Arab Spring In America."