tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post1760298902059444045..comments2024-03-28T02:13:53.054-05:00Comments on <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/Attaturk/fez.png"> Rising Hegemon : Go FigureAttaturkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08511961896699190171noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-26419783990095308912011-12-05T21:10:31.570-06:002011-12-05T21:10:31.570-06:00maybe fux can call the ACLUmaybe fux can call the ACLUpansypoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164502315120164024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-78146274310333772092011-12-05T08:44:37.725-06:002011-12-05T08:44:37.725-06:00Believe me when I say that I have no fondness what...Believe me when I say that I have no fondness whatsoever for FoxNews. However, I fail to be outraged by this. Assuming that the NYPD spokesperson was telling the truth, I'm okay with the cops making that judgment. In particular, I would not be surprised to learn that Fox gets more threats than the milquetoast stations like ABC, etc.<br /><br />Like what they say or not (and again, I sure don't), being in favor of free speech means being willing to pay for protecting the hard cases, not just the easy ones or the ones you agree with.bjkeefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-49791731004473064042011-12-04T19:44:31.638-06:002011-12-04T19:44:31.638-06:00What every Police Officer should realize is once t...What every Police Officer should realize is once the People are crushed, once the Middle Class is forever obliterated, once we are reduced to Wage Slaves chained irrevocably to be cogs in the machines of industry and war,<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/25/352699/christie-budget-4000-police/" rel="nofollow"> only a small cadre of police will needed, the rest will be disposable.</a><br /><br /><i> In New Jersey, about 4,000 police officers have lost their jobs in the past two years (2009-2011), said Anthony Wieners, president of the state’s Policemen’s Benevolent Association.</i>Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-36024524883036010592011-12-04T15:26:25.509-06:002011-12-04T15:26:25.509-06:00maybe there should be a siege they expect.maybe there should be a siege they expect.pansypoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164502315120164024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-14556891572316301372011-12-04T08:22:33.449-06:002011-12-04T08:22:33.449-06:00$500,000 divided by 8,760 (number of hours in a ye...$500,000 divided by 8,760 (number of hours in a year) gives the city of New York a cost of $57/hr.<br /><br />Dividing that by 12 (assuming 4-officers per shift and 3-shifts) whittles that down to $4.75 an hour. And that doesn't include overhead, the cars out front, back-up, sick time, vacations, etc.<br /><br />I don't trust these numbers at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-86347105621009669762011-12-04T07:13:14.718-06:002011-12-04T07:13:14.718-06:00I could almost justify this by noting that Murdoch...I could <b>almost</b> justify this by noting that Murdoch's NY Post was targeted by anthrax right after 9/11, but then so was NBC and they're not using the NYPD 24/7 either...ajmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290036970774359522noreply@blogger.com