One of a pagan society’s problems is that it must continue creating new Gods, new symbols to look up to, and worship.
Superman, Batman, GI Jane, Ken & Barbie, Generals, the Military, Police, Rudolph Guiliani, (“you know America’s Mayor.”
“Yah”…
The same guy decided to put New York City’s command and control center in the World Trade Center. And after the Facility was attacked in 1993.
It was bravado and arrogance, yet nobody in the media talks about Rudolph Guliani’s bravado and arrogance that placed those first responders’ lives in grave danger.
Neither do they talk about the fact that it was under Guiliani’s leadership that the communication equipment that the fire and police were using failed?
They went ahead and designated this clown America’s mayor. As the city’s chief executive, he walked with Pataki and others after the attack with a mask slung under his chin.
Nobody bothered to recall who this guy was before hailing him as the second coming of the Messiah. That it was the same Rudolph Guliani who led a gang of NYPD thugs in uniform and out of uniform to the steps of City Hall to denounce the now deceased David Dinkins, the City’s first Black Mayor, labeling him a Nigger and a washroom attendant.
The Media went along with Guliani’s undemocratic demand that he be given additional time to carry out his programs even after his term was up. Michael Bloomberg, another wannabe dictator, had won and was scheduled to take office.
Many in the belly of Gotham’s corruption went along with it; at the time, Guiliani and his cohorts lobbied the State Legislature and the City Council, to postpone the election primaries after the September 11th attack, thereby allowing the mini-wannabe dictator to serve an additional six months in office, some of his cohorts even demanded that he be allowed to serve another four-year term.
As Guiliani and his minions pushed and prodded anyone who would listen, lobbying them to help him to discard the laws and allow him to serve a third consecutive term in office, respected politicians like John McCain cautioned him to back down.
Even the Republican Governor George Pataki was against the move. Pataki argued, “Regardless of Rudy’s motivation, regardless of his raw emotions in the situation, he abandoned some of the most basic conservative principles — to follow the law and relinquish power when your term is over, even in times of crisis.”
In February 2007, the International Association of Fire Fighters issued a letter asserting that Giuliani rushed to conclude the recovery effort once gold and silver had been recovered from World Trade Center vaults and thereby prevented the remains of many victims from being recovered: “Mayor Giuliani’s actions meant that firefighters and citizens who perished would either remain buried at Ground Zero forever, with no closure for families, or be removed like garbage and deposited at the Fresh Kills Landfill,” it said, adding: “Hundreds remained entombed in Ground Zero when Giuliani gave up on them.”[159] Lawyers for the International Association of Fire Fighters seek to interview Giuliani under oath as part of a federal legal action alleging that New York City negligently dumped body parts and other human remains in the Fresh Kills Landfill.[wikipedia]
All this time, Donald Trump was watching and learning how to distort, destabilize, and ultimately destroy Democracy. A more learned man had tried it before, and almost got away with swaying public officials and civil society into giving in to his dictatorial aspirations.
Had the powers bowed to Guiliani’s wishes, he would have been validated in his beliefs that he alone could fix it, speaking of New York City after the terrorist attack of 9⁄11.
Where else did we hear that sentiment expressed?
Is it any wonder that those two clowns from Gotham would find common cause in trying to destroy two hundred and forty plus years of precedent?
Who is really surprised that at the heart of Donald Trump’s coup attempt, would be Rudolph Guiliani, the man who attempted the same stunt as Mayor of New York City?
This writer has consistently pointed not just to Guiliani’s racism, but his Fascistic undemocratic beliefs and use of power, including his use of NYPD cops against the City’s Black and Brown population.
Thankfully Republican primary voters then, saw through El Duce’s fascism and denied him a single primary win. Unfortunately, only a few years later, they missed the other despot to come along, and look at the damage he did in just four short years, even after being impeached.
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