Showing posts with label NewYorkCity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NewYorkCity. Show all posts

Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Bad Old Days are Back, Bernard Goetz 2: Brenddy Garcia

On December 22, 1984, while traveling the Seventh Avenue 2 express subway train in New York City, Bernard Goetz was harassed by 4 youth who he suspected were about to mug him. He plugged each one of  them, using an unlicensed revolver he was carrying.

The police initially failed to identify him and he was dubbed by the NYC press, the "Subway Vigilante". A rat fink, who knew Goetz carried an unlicensed revolver and that Goetz resembled the description of the "Subway Vigilante," tipped the police that it possibly was Goetz. Goetz surrendered to police nine days after the incident and was eventually charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and several firearms offenses. A Manhattan jury found him not guilty of all charges except an illegal firearms possession count, for which he served two-thirds of a one-year sentence.

It's 25 plus years later and another man, coincidentally with the same initials as Goetz, Brennddy Garcia, was forced to take justice into his own hands in the grimy subway system of New York City, in the number 2 train again, while the mayor was probably contemplating  how he can advance his plan to  reduce the use of salt on food in NYC, and Homeland Security officials were probably passing out more pictures of machine gun toting subway police that could be featured prominently in the dwindling circulation NYC propaganda rags, sometimes referred to as newspapers.

The great disconnect in all this is, for sure, another indicator that the empire, called the United States of America, is teetering on the edge of collapse. A youth has to defend himself in the subway system against a gang of thugs, when machine-gun toting police are supposedly protecting the same subway system against terrorists? The important question should be, "If the city isn't even protected against common thugs, who plan their crime sprees only seconds before they are executed,  how are these pictured machine gun toting  propaganda pieces going to halt a well thought out terrorist plot?"

Here's NyPo's report on the gang of thugs and the 19-year old forced to defend himself:
The two subway riders fatally stabbed along the downtown 2 line were attacked during a rowdy "train party" -- a fast-growing epidemic where youths, packing booze, smokes and sometimes weapons, take over a subway car in "wilding" episodes long after the bars have closed.

"It's like something from the bad old days of New York," a law-enforcement source told The Post..

Last Sunday, the group of 12 to 13 thugs that included the stabbing victims spent most of the night drinking and terrorizing people in Midtown.

At the Duane Reade at 40th Street and Broadway, some of them climbed on 6-foot-high theft detectors near the entrance as others yelled loudly around the store, three employees said.

They then joined the rest of the group. The plan was to board a downtown 2 train with 40-ounce beers and have a "train party" on the way home.

The young men harassed several passengers, and eventually zeroed in on Garcia and his four friends.

Garcia was smashed on the head by a bottle that shattered...
Garcia then took out his folding knife and let two of the thugs have it.

In typical New York City bizarre government thinking, where you are supposed to take mugging and getting smashed over the head with a 40 ounce beer bottle, quietly, like a wimp, Garcia has been charged with murder and assault.

The obviously brain dead prosecutor, John Veiga, said at the arraignment that Garcia "reacted to a perceived act of disrespect in a grossly disproportionate manner."

Bottom line: Big cities are  becoming outlaw country, again. Just a day earlier, a 14 year old in Washington DC shot up 10, leaving 4 dead, in a drive by.

The recession is causing cut backs in the police presence, which since they are government run are never that impressive anyway. And the absurd Homeland Security media posing is only wasting some of the cut backed resources.

As the economy continues to look more and more like a car stuck in mud and interest rates start to soar, things are not going to get any better at street level. Think about the best ways to avoid trouble (always the best plan) but realize that the machine gun toting police aren't going to be anywhere near you when you need them. That means you also need to take lessons on how to defend yourself, AND how to correctly leave the scene after you have defended yourself.

Another lesson here is to shut down your myspace site, twitter site etc. It is not going to be your friend, when you are in trouble. The media and the government now turn to those sites first to determine who someone is. 

NyPo picked this picture off the MySpace site of Garcia:


Despite the fact that Garcia appears to have acted in complete self-defense, NyPo because of this pic  is trying to smear him by calling him, "knife-loving."

I wonder if they will call Homeland Security the "machine gun-loving" Homeland Security because of the pics of Homeland Security agents pictured with machine guns?

If you like the big city life style, you better be prepared to defend yourself in the big city, but keep the details to yourself.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The One Thing You Can Count On From Government Is Failure...

...Even when they are spying on us.

About half of the more than 4,000 security cameras installed along New York City's subways are not working, reports AP.

The problem of missing video came to light after two men were stabbed to death on the subway — and there was no camera installed in the station to catch an image of the killer. Darnell Morel and Ricardo Williams, both 24, were killed in a fight that started around 5 a.m.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

25 Skills That Make An NYC Man

NyPo's Brian Niemietz  has it in writing, here. (Note: B&T, stands for Bridge and Tunnel crowd--anyone coming into Manahttan from another borough, Long Island or Jersey)

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Bloomberg: Windmill Idea Was Just Hot Air

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is backing off his suggestion to put windmills on city bridges and rooftops after newspapers mocked the idea with photo illustrations of turbines on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building, according to AP.

"There are aesthetic considerations," Bloomberg said. "No. 2, I have absolutely no idea whether that makes any sense from a scientific, from a practical point of view."

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

NYC Mayor Wants Windmills On Top of Skyscrapers; In The Ocean

The Windmill-Industrial Complex is alive and well in New York Cty.

NYC's Mayor Bloomberg yesterday proposed to develop wind turbines atop the Big Apple's bridges and skyscrapers.

The mayor also tossed out the possibility of building wind farms way out in the Atlantic Ocean, miles from shore, that he said could generate roughly twice the energy of similar land-based facilities and supply 10 percent of the city's electricity needs within a decade, NyPo reports.

"I think it would be a thing of beauty if, when Lady Liberty looks out on the horizon, she not only welcomes new immigrants but lights their way with a torch powered by an ocean wind farm," the mayor said in the closing speech of the National Clean Energy Summit.

Answer me this: Why is it considered ugly to put oil derricks in the ocean, but politically correct to put windmills?

Hey Mayor, if you are going to go whack job, why don't you go all the way? Distribute these to all citizens, with a battery pack to capture the energy created.


Wednesday, July 30, 2008

A Real Estate Tip from Richard Nixon

“A town house in Manhattan is like oceanfront property. It never loses its value.”

-From a fascinatng story at NYT on how Nixon finally ended up with a townhouse in Manhattan. Pat Nixon as the worried wife. And, check out the low, low prices tossed around for Manhattan real estate, in the story. The full story is here.