In response to the Aurora movie theater killings, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued an extraordinary statement. A longtime opponent of the right to self-defense, Bloomberg told a CNN interviewer that police have a moral duty to rebel against the civilian population if they don’t cede their remaining gun rights to the state:
I don’t understand why the police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say, ‘We’re going to go on strike. We’re not going to protect you. Unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe.’
This wasn’t a political argument for “gun control” legislation. Bloomberg went on national television and demanded a military coup against a civilian government he deems insufficiently authoritarian. Like Adolf Hitler before him – and yes, I’m going there – he used the Aurora mass murder as a call to arms for his own version of the Beer Hall Putsch. By Bloomberg’s own words, the “safety” of his armed militia is of greater importance than any fundamental rights the citizens may claim. There can no longer be any doubt that Bloomberg is a descendent of the Nazi and Communist ideologies that ravaged Europe during the previous century and linger to this day.
There is only one response to Bloomberg’s rejection of the basic principles of the Declaration of Independence. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has the legal authority to remove the mayor under the New York City Charter. The charter does not specify the grounds for removal only: “The mayor may be removed from office by the governor upon charges and after service upon him of a copy of the charges and an opportunity to be heard in his defense.” And there’s no defense for Bloomberg’s tyranny.
Now, you could fairly respond that removing Bloomberg would only strengthen another illegitimate politician in Governor Cuomo. But I don’t propose giving the governor any new power. The removal authority is already vested in him. And, as far as I can tell, there is no other provision for impeaching or removing the mayor from office. This is the only option – short of armed revolt – for deposing a man who has publicly declared war against his own citizens.
And there’s nothing wrong with turning one parasite against another. We need to encourage more in-fighting among politicians, not less, for it distracts them from hurting the rest of us. We certainly can’t depend on the ballot box. Bloomberg himself bought three elections – and even amended the city charter to enable his present third term – to get to the point where he feels safe enough to abandon any pretense of acting in the people’s name.
In the 17th century, the English Parliament tried King Charles I for the newly defined crime of “tyranny.” Unfortunately, the subsequent Civil War and restoration of Charles’s son to the throne led many to discredit the trial as a breach of the unwritten English constitution. But the charge was sound. Tyranny is a specific crime that exists above and beyond the mere abuse of power or violation of written laws. It is the systematic assault on the liberties of the people motivated solely by the tyrant’s desire for greater authority. That describes every aspect of Michael Bloomberg’s decade-plus as mayor of the nation’s largest city-state.
This article originally appeared at LewRockwell.com.
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Who in the hell elected this other bozo? I think it is time for the people to raise up and fight city hall, ELECT OUT THE IDIOTS. this guy is one of them…. Think before you vote. If I were al capone or baby faced nelson I could get a gun and would have a ball if I know no one else was gona shoot back………….Idiots in White House and other places………………………
Yep, this “blooming idiot” Mayor Bloomberg (Doomberg) is, indeed, a tyrant. He’s working with the criminal George Soras. They are both using, or wasting, their billions to get guns banned in America. He’ll say anything to get this done no matter how asinine it is. And his criminal boss in our White House backs him up. Criminals prefer their victims to be unarmed. See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com page 4 for the history of treason.
Hey know teapartier – gets facts straight- its not OUR White House, according to Obama He stated HIS White House when he was commenting about Classified info leaking out to the public.
Got to thank God for ‘WCFJ’ and M. Savage, they both are not afraid to say the truth in a way that need’s to be told, without the fear of PC intimidation. The country would not be in the dire straits that it now is lf we had a free press instead of a state-run press. This are the kind of journalism that is needed to defeat the new Hitler and his communist minions. If articles such as this one were made available to the nation on the nightly news, I think even most of the ‘Obaa-baa-mintes’ and the rest of the sheeple would have second thoughts of putting this Muslim-Marxist, little effeminate, two-bit dictator back in office. Why of course this horrific mass murder was orchestrated by the regime now in power. Anybody with common sense and a discerning mind can see that things don’t add up and the STATE-RUN press is doing their usual coverup rather than any hardcore investigating into this smokescreen. All they are doing is regergetating what this Godless regime is telling them. Instead of ‘start your engines,’ we need to be hearing ”start your state militias.”
Moron: I don’t understand why the police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say, ‘We’re going to go on strike. We’re not going to protect you. Unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe.’
Answer: how will taking guns away from good people keep police officers safe? Police rarely ‘protect’ people anyway… when seconds count, the police are many minutes away…. where were the police officers in Aurora? How could they possibly have “Protected” the people in the theatre? If there were a couple of armed good guys in there, there would be less good people killed and only one bad guy killed. The parents and relatives of the people killed should sue the city and state and theatre for deliberately creating a situation that ended in the killing of their relatives… there is plenty of evidence that firearms in the hands of good people tend to make crime go down.
Also, Bloomberg should know that if the Jewish people, (not to mention the rest of the people who bought into the ‘its safe now, we don’t need guns’ argument) had been armed, Hitler would not have gotten away with the Holocaust …. you would think he would know that!
Bloomberg the little guy dressed as Col. Klink was asked if he would forego his own constant tax paid security but so far he has failed to answer, just like he got caught flapping his gums about AC for his car..This guy is another uesless hypocrite with little or no brainz…
The reality is that the cheese is slipping off of Bloomberg’s cracker and he should be replaced by someone that is more mentally sound since Bloomberg obviously has lost it! Insofar as tyranny is concerned, what do you call the crime when the president of the United States tells the Russian president to tell the about to be new Russian president to be patient, by stating tell Vladimir that once I am re-elected I will have more latitude”,we all know thatBO was referring to the “Missile Shield”, if that’s not a treasons statement what in the world is?
Mother Bloomberg now wants hospitals to make it harder for a new mother to feed her baby formula in a NYC hospital. The women are to get a dissertation extolling the benefits of breast feeding. Excuse me, but I really think that is none of the governments business what a mother feeds her child for nutrition. Perhaps there are medical reasons that the mother or baby have that prevent breast feeding.
Mother Bloomberg says you can’t have salt on your table in a restaurant, but you can compete in a competitive eating contest on July 4th at Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. You can’t order a “Big Gulp” cup of soda, but, you can smoke a joint.
Mother Bloomberg encourages police officers across the country to go on strike until you give up your weapons. Perhaps that is a good thing as it would encourage self reliance for self defense. More law abiding gun toting citizens would use their firearms for defending themselves and others. But one thing is certain, Mother Bloomberg is a tyrant and has to go.
This commie bastard needs to be in Jail for treason against the US of America now and the states of New York also arrest that so called man now
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if the police did go on strike and an uprising of neighborhood watch groups assembled and crime rate dropped as a result of the police going on strike rendering citizens with no other choice for protection but to protect our self.
Could result n a large cut of tax dollar spending and a safer nation with the police bureaucracies out of the way as an end result.