Posted on 07/09/2008 3:12:23 AM PDT by Stoat
New York Post
July 9: Hundreds cheered the man on as he scaled the ladder-like slats of the building on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Street.
NEW YORK — Police say a man has scaled a portion of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters in Manhattan, the third time such a stunt has happened in just a few weeks.
Police say the man climbed the Eighth Avenue side of the building and had reached at least the 11th floor. They say he was spotted about 1:20 a.m. Wednesday.
The Daily News reported on its Web site early Wednesday that it had received a call from the man, who identified himself as a college dropout from Connecticut. The climber hung a white banner on the building's sign that referenced Usama bin Laden.
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Hundreds of people cheered him on as he scaled the ladder-like slats of the building on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Street carrying a banner he apparently planned to unfurl if he made it to the top. He was refusing to cooperate with cops and firefighters who tried to talk him down.
Times climb - again! Man scales paper's headquarters to protest Al Qaeda
Taggart for NewsDavid Malone keeps climbing after hanging a banner on the Times building early Wednesday morning.
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He hung a banner over the first "T" of The New York Times sign that featured a picture of terror kingpin Osama Bin Laden holding President Bush like a puppet. On it were the words "Bin Laden's Plan" - the title of his book and Web site (www.binladensplan.com).
He said he wanted to protest Al Qaeda's "crusader baiting," and that the terror group's "intentional provocation of the U.S." was the greatest threat to American national security.
Malone said he was 29 and from Connecticut and that he had dropped out of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1995 to study Al Qaeda full-time.
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NYT is hoping to generate ad revenue from its Waziristan readership.
His apparent dislike of al-queda is probably the only thing keeping him from landing a job at the Times.....
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And if bin Laden is controlling our idiots like this, isn't that a danger to our security because who knows what the next nut will do?
How come the logic never extends to the fools themselves? They are always immune and the rest of us are puppets or whatever.
Of course he hung the banner on the right left wing supporting pile of fecal matter the Slimes.
‘building’s sign that referenced Usama bin Laden.”
Don’t they mean Osama bin Laden, not to be confused with Barrak Hussein Obama
Don’t they mean Osama bin Laden, not to be confused with Barrak Hussein Obama
Sadly, this nutter is a McCain supporter, or at least claims to be. From the New York Daily News article:
He went on and on in an articulate, dispassionate way.
At one point, Sgt. Hassiem Michel of the NYPD Hostage Negotiation Team spoke by phone with Malone.
"He was focused. He had his agenda. He certainly wanted to get his message across," Michel said.
Associated Press is not welcome on Free Republic. The article and photo you have sourced and linked are from Associated Press. Unfortunately I will have to pull this thread in a few minutes.
We’re not going to pay AP’s extortion fees and we’re not going to allow them to control free speech!
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