Showing posts with label rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rights. Show all posts

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Bloomberg's 2003 opinion about "taking away people's rights in the interest of security"



A 2003 Daily News article about Sheldon Silver urging the Mayor to "Open Park Row" quoted Bloomberg offering his opinion about security vs. personal rights.

scorecard:
Chinatown:0
Terrorists:1
NYPD: what ever they want plus Park Row


"I'm a big believer that if you keep people from moving around reasonably freely, if you take away people's personal rights in the interest of security, the terrorists win without firing a shot," Michael Bloomberg Aug 7th 2003