N.Y. City Council Passes Anti-Patriot Act Measure

Washington Post ^ | 2/05/04 | Michelle Garcia

[kattracks]

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- New York City, site of the country's most horrific terrorist attack, Wednesday became the latest in a long list of cities and towns that have formally opposed the expanded investigatory powers granted to law enforcement agencies under the USA Patriot Act.

The New York City Council approved a resolution condemning the law, enacted by Congress six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, with a voice vote in its chambers a few blocks from the gaping hole at Ground Zero.

"The Patriot Act is really unpatriotic, it undermines our civil rights and civil liberties," said council member Bill Perkins (D-Manhattan), the bill's sponsor. "We never give up our rights that's what makes us Americans."

[ZULU]

Just more grandstanding by a bunch of leftist Dems, trying to help Kerry.

[AppyPappy]

Help me out. Wasn't the World Trade Center IN NYC?

[Rummyfan]

Idiots!

[kattracks]

ping

[garylmoore]

I guess I wouldn't expect any less from a city with so many people with so many things to hide.

[hellinahandcart]

Voting for term limits here was the biggest mistake I ever made in my entire life. It forced out a ton of entrenched Democrats who, in retrospect, really weren't so bad after all, and replaced them with flaming communists like Charles Barron.

Did you know that we are in the middle of "Black New Yorkers for Peace" Month right now, not Black History Month? That's the kind of resolution you can always expect from people like Barron and Bill Perkins. They even gave ANSWER's Larry Holmes a special mention in the text.

I can't wait to get out of this town...

[correctthought]

I can't wait to leave this place too.

[hellinahandcart]

I admit defeat. I don't recognize this place anymore. Get me out of here, get me out of here, get me out of here.

[EQAndyBuzz]

As soon as the kids head off to college, I am gone. Looks like Scottsdale Arizona for me.

[correctthought]

As soon as I finish grad school, I'm outta here. I just have to find an area with a deep job market for accountants.

[stopsign]

Hummm...:)<<me

[Steve_Seattle]

By electing a carpetbagger like Hillary, the people of New York defined themselves as a bunch of star-struck hillbillies, like the citizens of Mayberry bedazzled by a snake-oil salesman; I've stopped looking for signs of intelligence in New York.

[Recovering_Democrat]

The NY City Council's resolution has this much effect on law enforcement: ZERO.

They just want attention...they are idiots of the first division.

[B4Ranch]

Monica Tarazi, New York director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said the Patriot Act and other tactics to fight terrorism has sowed fear within New York's ethnic communities and activists.

"This country is not about registering [people] and ethnic profiling," she said. "We need this [resolution]. We need this as Americans."

[NYCVirago]

The resolution criticized the Patriot Act for allowing infringements on privacy rights.

Yeah, like the City Council really cares about privacy rights, when they have their anti-smoking ticketers go after smokers in their own private offices!

[hedgie]

They went through our building's garbage and found a bag with a letter with a resident's address and some other junk mail in it. The sanitation inspector sent him a ticket for $20 for failure to separate recyclables.

So much for privacy.

Meanwhile our city council passes this resolution. I mean, I can't even keep track of how many terrorist plots have been uncovered in this town over the last 15 years.

I am preparing to rip into my Councilwoman, Eva Moskowitz.

I think what you have on the council are a bunch of red-diaper babies and a rich kid chair (Miller) who is probably on a bunch of Chelsea club drugs.

[Paulie]

"As soon as I finish grad school, I'm outta here. I just have to find an area with a deep job market for accountants."

Paulie and the Mrs. just might join you...

[NYC GOP Chick]

Land of Fear, Rape, and Hunger
The City Council Welcomes a Dictator

[NYC GOP Chick]

Last year, I nearly got into a screaming match over the phone with some broad in my idiot councilcritter's office. Seems that the chunkhead, Alan Gerson, was a co-sponsor of the city council's Anti-War Resolution.

For some reason, his staffer didn't appreciate my asking if the councilcritter was aware that what remains of the WTC site is in his district and just how disrespectful to the rest of this country -- especially the men and women who would soon be putting their lives on the line -- this would look.