This post appeared in a previous blog and is here for posterity’s sake.

Mayor Bloomberg, displaying an acute level of hyperbole:

It is true that a handful of people have tried to destroy our city by going up and yelling at visitors here because they don’t agree with their views,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “Think about what that says. This is America, New York, cradle of liberty, the city for free speech if there ever was one and some people think that we shouldn’t allow people to express themselves. That’s exactly what the terrorists did, if you think about it, on 9/11. Now this is not the same kind of terrorism but there’s no question that these anarchists are afraid to let people speak out.

Nice painting with a wide brush, Mr Mayor. why don’t you talk about how your police department held detanees longer than the permissible 24 hours? Or that it took a state judge order their release three times before you did? It isn’t like you weren’t forewarned about the amount of protesters. Commissioner Kelly was talking about 1,000 arrests a day, so you knew there would need to be a whole police, logistical and judicial apparatus set up do deal with them. When it takes 36-48 hours to write a desk appearance ticket (a ticket) you can’t tell me that there wasn’t deliberate slowdowns to keep people off the streets until after the President spoke.