My Response to Rudy Giuliani's Attacks

Comment on: My Response to Rudy Giuliani's Attacks Robert Greenwald at Huffington Post He's done a few things that have pushed the envelope of government secrecy: 1) He would not allow the State Comptroller to review the city books for expenditures stating the comptroller was a candidate for Governor and the request political. 2) He would not allow the historians to look at the papers generated while he was mayor, moved to a warehouse, though technically they belong to the citizens of New York. 3) He had the state flag of Arkansas flown over City Hall while visiting there, considering a run against now Senator Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady. City Council passed a law forbidding the act in the future. 4) Under his administration, in 1999, City Hall Park was upgraded with electric bollards and a higher fence cemented into stone. I worked on the "First Almshouse" cemetery there in the park and he came out to visit a few times, which I think was a perfect "news black out" unlike other civic center human remains found that make national news. During that time there were demonstrations by city employees in unions and against the bombings in Europe. Outlines of other buildings that had been there were being outlined in darker plaza stone, i.e., the jail "blacker than any black hole of Calcutta" (NY Times 1903) where Ethan Allen is said to have been tortured, the British Army barracks, and other structures once on the City Commons historic district, now with the new adjacent National Monument the African Burial Ground on the next block. In the remodeling, the statue representing patriot Nathan Hale, whose "regret for only having one life to lose for his country" has become famous, was moved to the front of City Hall Park where once it had been near the corner of Broadway and Chambers streets. 5) I read his company was in charge of the multi-million dollar cleanup of the US Post Office from anthrax (non-weapon grade) attacks on the US, which has yet to be solved. posted 09/08/2007 at 13:26:04