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Well, you can always call and ask. Why speculate when you can get the information straight from the horse's mouth?

Exactly.

Some cemetaries are private and limit access to those who have a legitimate purpose for being on site, such as a funeral service and/or visiting the grave of a family member, friend, etc. Thus, you can prevent an unwanted assembly on private property. In instances where the funeral may not be taking place on private property, It may not have been clear in my original post, but "keeping them out" was meant for the site of the actual funeral mass and burial. Thus, you can also come together as a community, and not through the judiciary, to prevent an unwanted assembly at the site of the funeral, in a manner similar to the way in which the Patriot Guard operates.

Believe it or not, what makes this country so great is the fact that everybody's beliefs and public assemblies, as righteous or as disgusting as they may be, are Constiutionally protected. While I think that Westboro has some of the most hideous, disgusting beliefs out there, the mere fact that the Constitution allows for their existence, means that you, me, and everyone else here has the same right. So why spend all the time, effort, and money on a court case (because you know that's what will happen) to have them branded as a hate group? Instead, we as a community should come together, using the same Constituionally-protected rights, and block their protest. Let's get all of our engines, ladders, ambulances, police cars, and everything else together, make a ring around the cemetaries and churches, and keep them out as a community. It will not be a court victory; rather, it will be a symbolic victory that will speak many more volumes than something that cannot be settled in the judiciary.

Apparently, it was purely an academic analysis of the City of Yonkers, with no practical elements, such as standing in Getty Square at 3am on a Friday or a Saturday with a fat knot in their pockets.

Thanks for clarifying Barry. I was under the assumption (yes, I assumed and the inevitable happened lol) that an IC would just generically call for mutual aid, and 60 would dispatch the appropriate unit or units. I didn't realize how involved it was.

Correct me if I am wrong (and I may very well be wrong), but once the IC contacts 60-Control for mutual aid to the scene, isn't it 60's decision with respect to who gets called?

He probably voted early (and often), too.

Call me a cynic, but anyone who believes his story that the boots are "hidden" so as to keep himself from being robbed of them, can come over to my house anytime they want to buy this lovely bridge to Brooklyn that I have in my backyard.

And Peruggia was demoted for some other things in addition to the blizzard response, which was just the icing on the cake.

I'm willing to guess that the old man pictured in the wheelchair didn't have a way to evacuate. And he did "shut up," as he is now deceased.

This is what happens when you let overpaid consultants who are mayoral cronies "fix" a system that isn't broken in the first place.

Mayor Bloomberg: As Rome (or, should I say, I dunno, Breezy Point) burns, you should not fiddle and run a race.

Not if it's a lawful order. In NYC (http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/eo/eo_163.pdf) those who refused to evacuate flood Zone A were guilty of a class B Misdemeanor.

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