Where Are The Freakin' Mayors?

[JFN1]

I read a http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/15/15157/5761/1002/437335">diary over at DK earlier, and it's had me thinking ever since.

The essence of the diary, written by an ACLU lawyer, is how Bush uses unConstitutional methods to keep peaceful protesters at bay.

Basically, the cities that Bush visits offer up their police as brown shirts for the President, giving protesters and bystanders a rough go of it, and in the process, stomp all over the First Amendment.

So my question - where the fuck are the mayors of these cities? Why are they offering brown shirt service to the president, instead of doing what they were elected to do - serve the PEOPLE of their cities FIRST AND FOREMOST, and most especially, uphold the Constitution as the HIGHEST LAW IN THE LAND. Remember, oh, say, EIGHT YEARS AGO, when the Constitution was the highest law in the land? 'Member that?

Because it sure seems our city mayors have forgotten it.

Last August, President Bush attended an exclusive, high-priced fundraiser for New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici. Local activists opposed to the president’s policies were, of course, not invited. To let the president know that not everyone agreed with him, they planned to stand along his motorcade route holding up signs expressing their views, especially their opposition to the war in Iraq.

The peaceful demonstrators’ attempt at free speech was quickly squashed when police officers forced them to stay at least 150 yards away from the motorcade route, walling them off by placing numerous police cars and officers on horseback between the protesters and the president. Meanwhile, a group of Bush supporters was allowed to stand right along the motorcade route, where their "God Bless George Bush! We pray for you!" sign was in plain view of both Bush and the journalists accompanying him.

So what the hell is up with our mayors? Are they too star-struck in the presence of the mighty Bushler to remember their oaths - hell, to remember the basic citizenship class they surely took in high school??

Seems to me, the problem with Bush, has grown much larger than Bush. How do we ever get our Constitution re-elevated to the highest law in the land? And where are the freakin' mayors?

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Well, I live under the rule of the son of Richard Daley, so that should say it all. nt

[mac2]

2. They are cowards

[ShaneGR]

3. Presidential visit = Man hours = money for city and PD

When a President visits an area, lets say Cleveland Ohio for example. Hundreds of police officers and city workers get paid by the city for their work. The city bills the Federal Government for those hours, plus a markup.

If you're a big city mayor, you're not passing up a multimillion dollar windfall for just a days work.

[JFN1]

4. I have no problem with that

but I do have a problem with allowing police to run amuck on protesters - in violation of our Constitution.

So what you are saying (and you are probably right) is that the cities want the cash, so they're willing to "bend" the Constitution to get it. If they refuse to "bend" the Constitution, then Bush and his money will not visit their city. Right?

I agree with a previous comment - what short-sighted fucking cowards...