Happy New Year from Our Rulers

“Heavily Armed Anti-Terror Police to Guard Times Square on New Year’s,” says the headline over an article beginning, “Nearly 6,000 police officers — hundreds of them with long guns, radiation detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs — will be guarding New York’s Times Square…” 

“Guarding”? Sounds more like “disarming and rendering the 1,000,000 visitors expected to watch the ball drop sitting ducks.” Al Qaeda itself couldn’t do better. Intriguing, isn’t it, that government’s objectives so often coincide with those of the “terrorists” it claims to fight.

And all this when “Police Commissioner Bill Bratton” admits, “We are not aware of any threat at this time that we deem credible.” But hey, never let an opportunity to intimidate the peons go to waste.

Meanwhile, we can excuse that hapless million if it mistakes Times Square for an airport: “as crowds enter a frozen zone at 14 points, uniformed officers will inspect bodies and bags with magnetometers and hand wands. … After getting through that screening, people will be re-screened when they get to one of 65 massive spectator pens…” Why? Didn’t cow them sufficiently the first time? If the thugs are this incompetent, why are we paying them?

“Around them, [folks] will see K-9 cops, heavy weapons teams and emergency service officers ‘capable of responding within seconds.'” If that doesn’t scare celebrants silly, given the NYPD’s penchant for fielding trigger-happy bullies, I don’t know what will.

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