“We won’t cede an inch to squeegee men, turnstile jumpers, and graffiti vandals who breed a sense of disorder and lawlessness,” the mayor said.

That’s Mayor Rudi -er – Mike Bloomberg, according to this piece in the NY Daily News, announcing his plans to step up law enforcement against “quality of life criminals” in the city.  He’s going to go after the “dirty dozen” in this bunch, he says.

Brave lad.  That’s what I’m lying awake agonizing over.  Some one jumping a turnstile.

 A couple of hustlers with buckets and squeegees. That’s what’s rmenacing the republic and breeding unrest in the population.

(Meanwhile, says Alan Nairn, in an interview with Amy Goodman  on the appointment of the genocide-supporting Admiral Blair  (I posted it recently), “Mayor Bloomberg of New York just went to Israel and gave a press conference where he said that the international law of proportional response was stupid. He rejected it.”

It’s not lawless for a state to retaliate out of all proportion when the state is legally and morally in the wrong, but hustling for pennies on the street is a monstrous crime.

Please.

I don’t know about you, but this is what cast a pall over me when I rolled out of bed this morning:

1. What was the point of the last 4 years of my life writing and petitioning against the Iraq war, torture, and financial criminality?

2.  How come I have to prove myself on a job but no one in Washington or New York does?

3.  Is this country revving up for more war and if so, when, where, and for how long?

4. Why work and save? Just get a bail-out. 

5. Why the heck can’t I get Tor to work on my computer and anyway, aren’t they turning over stuff to the government?

6.  Why doesn’t this site (www.mindbodypolitic.com) show up on google searches but my wordpress blog does? [this site shows up on altavista and yahoo)

7. How do you make yourself invisible without getting the powers- that-be interested in you.

8.  What’s the use if the credit bubble crashed but the bubble in disinformation’s still going strong…

 9.  How soon before the government clamps down on the net and  confiscates gold… and should I even bother buying physical?

10. Where do you escape to? There’s no place to run from the kleptocracy….

You’ll notice that squeegee men didn’t figure once. Not even in a supporting role.