Yes! John Leonard is one of my favorite writers (I love his book reviews for The Nation) and now he’s in Salon, reporting from Post Apocalyptic New Yawk Citty where The Prosecutor has transformed the Big Apple into American Singapore.
“The last five years in New York have been less about government than they’ve been about obedience training. Rudy’s a guy with a built-in balcony, from which he barks our marching orders. Lawful assembly, and such free-speechifying as may attend its occasion, are particularly sore points around here. Before he was even elected the first time, in October 1993, candidate Rudy opposed letting Louis Farrakhan speak at Yankee Stadium. In March 1995, a wall of cops surrounded City Hall, with horses, scooters, nightsticks, riot gear, barricades and Mace, to keep 20,000 high school and college students from marching on Wall Street. That June, Rudy kicked Yasir Arafat out of Lincoln Center. The following May, he would use armored cars against homeless squatters.”
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