
This is an invitation to our comrades, companions and friends from all over the world: Come to Hamburg in July 2017 and join the resistance against the G20 summit! The radical left has confronted the rulers in many fights: we are still manifold, solidary and unpredictable. Our social centres, particularly those in the summit’s vicinity, will be access points for exchange and the formation of resistance. Quite contrary to mainstream bourgeois opposition, we won’t suggest alternatives to the powerful in order to keep the capitalist system alive. Our solidarity is with all emancipatory movements joining the resistance in the streets against the Hamburg summit. And we will decide for ourselves which forms of action are politically adequate and communicable.
A very well-known Radical American Mayor heard the beckoning call of his fellow Radical Marxists and flew to Hamburg to join them …at their expense.
The New York Daily News reports that
Mayor de Blasio defended his jaunt to Germany — which comes as the city reels from a police officers’ assassination and as homelessness has spiked — saying city business will go on in his absence. “All the issues that need to be attended to, I’m attending to every day, regardless of where I am,” an audibly tired de Blasio said, calling into WNYC from Hamburg.
Hizzoner ditched the city to attend events surrounding the international G20 summit in Germany, where he’ll deliver the keynote address at a protest rally. He described a “very tense situation here,” as the city has also been rocked by violent protests and clashes between police and demonstrators.
But de Blasio has been criticized for leaving behind his own tense situation at home, with Republican mayoral candidate Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis of Staten Island ripping him for leaving a city grappling with the death of Police Officier Miosotis Familia and amid news street homelessness had climbed 40 percent over last year.
And Republican Chairman Ed Cox argued that if de Blasio is so disinterested in his mayoral job, he ought to let someone else do it.
“Bill de Blasio is so derelict in his job of Mayor, he should give it up and let someone else take over his responsibilities and duties, permitting him to return to his full-time roots as a protester and political rabble-rouser. New Yorkers deserve so much better,” Cox said.
The mayor said he was invited to Germany 10 or 12 days ago, but didn’t tell the press or public about his plans after Familia’s death. It was announced just hours before his plane departed because he only decided to travel after making sure he would not miss her funeral, he said.
“I feel so deeply for Officer Familia’s family. I was in the room when Commissioner O’Neill and I had to tell her 20-year-old daughter what had happened,” de Blasio said.
He noted the city’s action to install bullet-resistant glass in the kinds of vehicles Familia was inside.
As for the homelessness numbers, conducted through an annual survey called the HOPE count, de Blasio said, “Look there’s no question theres’s a problem there, even though I think that count was taken on a day that might have inflated the numbers a little bit because of weather,” de Blasio said. “The central point is there’s a problem and it’s not aproblem I’m going to ignore.”
But despite the increase, he said his pricey Home-Stat program, which assigns case workers to people who are homeless, is working — and that it just needs to be “deepened.”
Other candidates also criticized the mayor for leaving town.
Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl, a former cop, accused the mayor of turning his back on both the force and the Dominican community, as Familia was of Dominican descent.
“He’d rather protest and eat bratwurst with his lefty friends in Europe,” Dietl said. “The real victims of this political posturing are the people of New York, our invaluable Dominican community and other minority communities that feel the impact of this mayor’s ineptitude each day.”
On Twitter, he posted a story about violent clashes there and wrote that the mayor “is currently in Germany bringing the violent protest message there.”
Sal Albanese, a former councilman challenging de Blasio in a Democratic primary, was even more blunt on Twitter, using an abbreviation he frequently uses for the mayor: “No doubt in my mind, DEB is the biggest [a——] to occupy City Hall.”
The mayor spent the day meeting with other mayors, and on Saturday will headline the protest rally. He said the city and state of Hamburg, run by the Social Democratic and Green parties, had reached out to him and invited him to attend.
“They wanted, I think, to represent the fact that there are a variety of views in the United States on how to proceed on the big issues that face this planet particularly on climate change,” he said.
The “sponsors” of the event paid for his trip — including his flight and hotel — and that of three staffers. But his NYPD detail’s travel costs will be picked up by the taxpayers.
“I have 24/7 security. It does not matter where I am in the world or in the country, I’m going to have that security. It is paid for as a matter of public service,” he said. “Whether I was at City Hall or Gracie Mansion or in another state or in another country that security is going to be there and paid for any way you slice it.”
Of course, protecting the mayor within the city does not come with the need for plane tickets or hotel rooms.
De Blasio denied the notion that he’s taking the trip to frame himself as an alternative to President Trump.
“When I started thinking about re-election I like everyone else did not assume that there would be a President Trump,” he said. “Trump became a reality and I think it was incumbent upon me as the leader of the biggest city in the country to set a tone.”
So, why did DeBlasio desert his post to attend the staged protests in Hamburg?
BECAUSE HE IS A SOCIALIST.
And, if he happens to miss that slain New York City Police Officer’s funeral, oh, well.
The NYPD doesn’t give a rip about him, either.
The New York Post reported 3 years ago that
Thousands of NYPD cops turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio on Sunday outside a Brooklyn funeral home as he eulogized a murdered NYPD officer inside.
As de Blasio addressed the loved ones of Detective Wenjian Liu in the Aievoli Funeral Home in Bensonhurst, the sea of blue watching the funeral on huge TV screens outside showed their disgust for Hizzoner by turning around as he spoke.
Cops have been furious with de Blasio mainly since the grand-jury rulings involving the deaths of Staten Island dad Eric Garner and Missouri teen Michael Brown, two unarmed black men who died during confrontations with white cops. Neither cop was criminally charged.
The mayor said afterward that he worries about how his son, Dante, who is half-black, might be treated by police because of his race.
The cops say de Blasio’s comment is just another instance in which he has added to the anti-cop sentiment in the city.
Liu and Officer Rafael Ramos were sitting in their patrol car in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Dec. 20 when deranged, cop-hating killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley came up from behind to execute them. Brinsley committed suicide before cops could catch him.
Officers first turned their backs to de Blasio when he visited the hospital where Ramos and Liu were treated. They then also turned turned their backs to him outside the church where Ramos’ funeral was held Dec. 27.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton asked officers not to repeat that silent protest at Liu’s funeral Sunday.
The “Welcome to Hell G20” protests are staged as stated in the excerpt from their “Call to Action”.
I have been doing some research to find out who is funding them, because you know that a bunch of anti-capitalist Leftists do not have the money or expertise to be putting together such a synchronized sideshow as we are witnessing at the G20 Summit.
There is big money behind this operation.
I have a feeling that I know whose money it is.
So do you if you witness the similarities in the rabble-rousing rhetoric used in the “Women’s March” over here and these G20 Protests.
Whoever is funding these Astroturf Protestors has paid from DeBlasio to be there, travel expenses included.
Do the initials “G.S.” ring a bell?
I ain’t sayin’…I’m just sayin”.
The citizens of The Big Apple have every right to be mad at DeBlasio.
However, they should also be mad at themselves.
After all, they were the ones who allowed a Marxist to become their Mayor.
Until He Comes,
KJ



