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In Progressive, Enlightened New York City, the city council has told police to stand down on enforcing laws against public urination. Because, apparently, holding all people to the expectation of not urinating in public is “RAYCISS!”

“We know that the system has been really rigged against communities of color in particular,” council member Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Democrat (of course – Ed.), told the Times. “So the question has always been, what can we do in this job to minimize unnecessary interaction with the criminal justice system, so that these young people can really fulfill their potential?”

On Monday, Mark-Viverito and other council members will introduce a set of bills called the Criminal Justice Reform Act. The laws are designed to make several quality-of-life laws much more toothless. Misdemeanor crimes to be nearly-but-not-quite decriminalized include public urination, excessive noise, drinking in public, marijuana possession and miscellaneous public park-related infractions.

 

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  2. Starbucks and McDonald’s are the go to place in NYC to go. Otherwise, the city is largely “uncanny.” Five Guys has a john, but it has a code lock on the door. You get the code when you ask the cashier. So, whizzing in public is a natural among the homies and the homeless.

    “Miscellaneous public park-related infractions” undoubtedly includes lying down on park benches. You may sleep sitting up, but don’t take up more than sitting room to zonk. The public parks in NYC were fetid danger zones until Rudy Giuliani weeded them and shined them up. They soon became wonderful community zones that were highly favored by polite society. This, of course, pissed off the abusive set. Graffiti was no longer tolerated, but you could chalk out hop-scotch courts and some of the art drawn on the pavement was incredible. The parks were channeled toward “appropriate” participation and the crude and rude were banished.

    Now, the reactionary De Blasio regime is busy making NYC “accessible” for the disaffected and the disturbed. Next to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a fantastic children’s playground. There are public restrooms there. One of the colorful “occupations” in NYC is carried out by people who scour the trash cans looking for 5¢ deposit bottles and cans. They carry huge garbage bags loaded with their finds. They used the restrooms at the playground and moved on. Now they have begun to pile up and hang around and scare the children. Down near China Town is a quiet park where the residents bring their birds in bird cages and hang them in the trees so that the birds can sing to one another. Very colorful and culturally informative. But, now the benches have more and more sleeping misfits who don’t particularly like the Chinese or their birds.

    Hollyweird trades in “loss-of-innocence” messages that somehow do not inspire. It is s-o-o-o-o repressive to cling to “arbitrary” standards if you see the world through Progressive lenses.

    But letting people pee on the sidewalks is a form of surrender, not a Triumph of the Will. The thin line between “free will” and anarchy is not to be taken lightly. Society erects guardrails for reasons other than keeping the misfits from careening crazily. They are reminders to all of us that order is preferable to chaos.

    In the parks you may encounter concrete or steel furnishings that are dedicated to the playing of chess. The chess boards are impervious to disfigurement. A chess player brings his or her own set of pieces and engages another player in a game that is nothing less than highly ordered moves and rules. You are not required to play chess. You are not required to accept offers to play. You are not required to watch others play. But there is a tacit understanding that you don’t sit on the chessboard and bay at the moon. And, if you are sitting at a chessboard table reading a book and a chess player is looking for a board, you are expected to defer to his “proper” use of the space.

    There is an arch at Washington Square which welcomes people into that wonderful community space. From time to time, a man shows up with his full sized piano. He is a highly talented piano player and the acoustics under the arch are spectacular. His ingenuity in getting that piano there and taking it away are remarkable. It is part of what makes NYC a vibrant place. Among the spectators and admirers are pick-pockets. That is also a matter of fact in our celebration of diversity. But, do we applaud the pick-pocket’s talent? Do we gather to encourage the drunk cursing the piano player? Would we encourage someone who stepped forward and peed on the keyboard and hands of the artist playing the piano?

    Why do we keep going through the moronic notions that those out of tune with the harmony of society deserve an audience?

  3. Yeah man, forget public order! I wanna urinate where I want, I ain’t hurting anybody! Anybody who has a problem with me whizzing on a fire hydrant is just a fascist!

    You know a situation is bad when I say, “Couldn’t we be just a smidge more like Singapore?”

  5. They can’t enforce certain laws (against vagrancy, loitering, drug abuse, public urination) because enforcement would disproportionately affect “communities of color.” Carry that “logic” to its conclusion, and you can’t have any law enforcement, because all laws discriminate against the kind of people who would break those laws. And, without enforcement, all laws are pointless.

    Laws against child molestation have a disproportionate effect on pedophiles. Laws against arson discriminate against pyromaniacs. Laws against tax evasion disproportionately affect tax cheaters, and traffic laws have a disparate effect on reckless drivers.

  9. Moved there in ’03, have left and come back. I was last there in December. It’s definitely gone downhill the last 2 years. I felt like I was always dodging beggers and stinky people. The streets have more trash stacked up on them. I actually had a Progressive tell me that he wished someone would bomb a gun show to “give them a taste of their own medicine.” Right now, it doesn’t look like I’ll be back any time soon.

  10. You might want to get yourselves Russian boyfriends if you plan on living near moslems.

    “According to police the scene (Hostel) was attended by around 120 cars with 3-4 men in each. The “southerners”, the Arabs and the Moroccans, tried to resist and fired guns. But they were beaten with baseball bats and bar stools. The “Rusaki” (as the Russian migrants in Germany call themselves) strolled across all floors — said the source to “top secret” about the number of Russian migrants residing in Germany.

    According to the source, the cause of the massacre could be the rape of the displaced 13-year-old Russian girl Lisa. As was previously reported by the media, in Berlin a group of refugees for over 30 hours raped a 13-year-old schoolgirl. The child was kidnapped on January 11, near the railway station when she was returning home from school.”
    http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2016/01/russians-teach-migrants-lesson-in.html

  12. Geez Louise, this is why Liberals can’t have nice things. They ruin EVERYTHING with their moral equivalency and their jackbooted zeal for “diversity”, “inclusiveness” and unfettered catering to the marginalized victims of the white heterosexual, racist, bigoted, Christianiat patriarchy. If you are for law and order, if you want set standards of decency and decorum, if you oppose political correctness run amok, you are a hater and not to be tolerated.

  13. ” . . . so that these young people can really fulfill their potential?”

    As what, savages? Council member Melissa Mark-Viverito and her ilk are EXACTLY why young people of color can’t fulfill their potential as civilized human beings.