[Green-global] Greens Satire: NYC Police Permitting Process Debated at Public Hearing

[Clemens Vermeulen]

by Mitchel Cohen
Brooklyn Greens / Green Party of NY

On Monday, November 27, 2006 the New York City Police Department held public 
hearings at 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan over proposed new rules that 
Commissioner Ray Kelly has written requiring permits for all sorts of 
gatherings, processions, and the like. Numerous speakers from Critical Mass 
bicycle riders, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Bar 
Association, Black Men in Law Enforcement, and City Council representatives 
blasted both the new rules as well as the authority of any policing agency to 
write, pass, and implement legislation. Mitchel Cohen of the Brooklyn Greens 
was the only speaker to endorse this new legislation, although it soon became 
obvious that his endorsement was satire. Here is his testimony, as told to 
the police officials and audience at the hearings. (Mitchel says, "I felt 
lucky to walk out of the Police headquarters alive, but I suspect that the 
NYPD brass wll be taking note of my name and address, once again, for -- how 
shall I put this -- 'future reference'.")

Read further at http://globalgreens.org/node/28

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