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Freedom, Marxism, NYC, NYPD, Oppression
What else can one expect from the least free state in the Union?
These ridiculous Marxist bans started a while back with the ban on smoking.
Playing chess in NYC Parks goes hand in hand with the New York City park experience, deemed acceptable by New Yorkers and visitors of all ages.
“Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile” should be the mantra for NYC bureaucrats.
In October 2010, seven New Yorkers/chess players were issued summonses by NYPD for playing chess in Emerson Playground, Inwood Park.
The socialist NYC Parks Department has now deemed park area off limits even though, in this instance as in many of the City’s parks, play areas are furnished with stone chess and backgammon tables.
Note that the play area in Inwood Park was separated by a fence.
Two of the seven chess players, God bless them, did not take the summonses lying down. They challenged the summons and in January 2011, a Manhattan Criminal Court judge dismissed the summonses.
Judge Dismisses Case Against Inwood Chess Players
“MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — A judge threw out the NYPD’s case against two men ticketed for playing chess in an Inwood Hill Park playground, saying police wrote the summonses wrong.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Mark Whiten decided within minutes of the start of the men’s hearing on Tuesday that police issued the tickets based on the incorrect classification.
The summons were written as 103.3, the code for being in the park after stated park hours, but according to the NYPD’s own reasoning, they should have been written as 103.1, in which parkgoers have to abide by the stated signs, Whiten said. The summonses were written at 2 p.m., which is within stated park hours.”
Because the police wrote the summons wrong? Moreover, another thing, why Criminal Court? Horse fodder!
With all the issues that desperately need addressing here in NYC, the best that power hungry socialists could come up with was another directive focused on wrestling revenue from the pockets of New Yorker by ruling NYC parks off limits to any adult unaccompanied by a minor[s].
On behalf of the adult chess players in NYC parks, these individuals give back in that they teach and mentor young people seeking to learn the game of chess. Many are also unofficial caretakers of the parks in their communities.
Two Women Ticketed For Eating Doughnuts In A Brooklyn Playground
I worked in Manhattan for more than three decades during which. a third of that time, I worked within walking distance of a park. Such is a major perk for anyone.
My lunch hour visits consisted of a sandwich or salad, water and a Walkman; and my after work visits entailed chilling out friends until the park closed. I am not alone. This is what people do and not just in New York. It is a way of life and now it is illegal?
I am a taxpayer and have a vested stake in NYC parks. It is unacceptable and a violation of my liberties to be lectured and issued a summons for such lunch hour and evening visits to a park.
Guilty for this infringement upon the liberties of New Yorkers, are the same officials who created designated playground areas for dogs in NYC Parks, yet they turn around and ban adults?
Oh yes and the drug dealers who frequent the parks in certain communities. Not an issue there, huh, NYPD and NYC Parks officials?
Wake up New York. Far too many New Yorkers fail to recognize the never-ending assaults upon our liberties as a problem. Say no to socialist legislation and government officials. A less free New York does not make us safe.
New York’s corrupt and filthy bureaucrats can take their penal and legislative codes and stick it where the sun does not shine.
loopyloo305 said:
Would like to move to the country bydesign? I have a nice place on 3 acres my son says is like living in a park! But then most everything around here is that way. I lived in Dallas a long time ago, over 40 years, I don’t think I could stand such a restrictive attitude. How can the people let the government control so much? I am afraid that is what may be going to happen here though with Obama new Rural Council. It seems to have the agenda to tell us what we can and can not do. We are losing I am afraid. I wonder if we have the time to change anything as fast as they are moving!
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bydesign001 said:
Indeed Loopyloo. New York state started with the very same council. In NYC, we have the city part which is urban and then Long Island, the rural section.
There was a time when everyone was running to Long Island. Today LI has the same corruption, crime,etc. that we have here in the City and Long Islanders are now running for their lives back to the City.
I strongly suspect that the rural agenda that Obama has for our rural countrymen is the same nightmare.
When I was in Virginia, I traveled through Virginia Beach, Hampton and Chesapeakee during which I did a lot of meditating. As I prepared to return to NYC, I realized that # 1, I am no longer happy living here and #2, this is not the New York that I grew up loving. What a tragedy.
I would give anything Loopyloo, to live somewhere surrounded by grass, trees, no neighbors on my six and peace and quiet minus the tyranny and socialist bureacrats.
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loopyloo305 said:
Arkansas still has a lot of open country, and there are places where you can’t see your neighbors.
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bydesign001 said:
Sounds like heaven Loopyloo. Will put Arkansas on my list of travels before Barack gets there.
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AFVET said:
They will eventually turn NY into Detroit.
You are being taxed unto oblivion up there.
If you think Virginia is wide open, and it is compared to where you live, take a trip to fly-over country.
The elites look down their nose at us but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Stay out elites, we don’t want you here.
I live in a town in Ohio, pop. 14000. Surrounded by farms.
PERFECT !
Good Luck D. 🙂
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bydesign001 said:
Only a population of 14,000? Now that is indeed a dream AFVET. Must put both Ohio AND Arkansas on my list of travels.
I am often asked why I have not purchased a home in NYC. #1, property taxes are too darn high; #2 homes here are always half built. Since builders are all union members, far too many new homes begin to fall apart, crumble and leak after a year, #3, why would I buy a home that I can hear my next door neighbors in? Finally, legislation, legislation, legislation.
NY AFVET actually resembled Detroit back in the 70’s and 80’s but it came back. There was a time when one could walk a five block radius that was all demolished, mountains of bricks and dirt in every direction.
I fear that history is destined to repeat itself.
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Grumpyelder said:
Prince Bloomburg the pompus strikes again?
Send him down here, I know some rednecks who’d welcome him, Heck they’d even take him Gator Huntin’
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bydesign001 said:
Good afternoon Grumpy, EXACTLY. Bloomberg is a nightmare. I have no idea how this man was re-elected, the darn socialist.
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Freedom, by the way said:
I am dumbfounded. No adults allowed in a park without a child? Please tell me there are lawsuits filed on this already. It sounds like some dimwitted do gooder convinced city council it was the best way to keep child molesters away from kids. So…let’s not do a better job tracking down the sex offenders, let’s just keep adults out of the parks.
Keep VA on your list, too.
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