Rudolph Giuliani or Randy Rudy:
Strippers? No way. Mistresses? Okay!
Rudolph Giuliani is at it again. The New York City Mayor is once again
trying to shut down New York City's adult bookstores, peepshows and topless
bars.
Rudolph Giuliani: A bit of recent background
Rudolph Giuliani is fighting prostrate cancer. Facing his own mortality,
and understandably also thinking of what type of legacy he will leave,
Giuliani claimed to have come to a new understanding of life's priorities.
Giuliani said that repairing his relations with New York City's minority
communities was now a top goal. One would have thought that other pressing
issues, like the continued plight of homeless families in the city's
ineffective and cruel shelter system, would also be in Giuliani's new radar
range.
Rudolph Giuliani: the current
campaign
Unfortunately, it seems that issues like minority relations and housing
will have to wait.
While we've seen little, if any, effort focused on those issues, Giuliani
has found the time and energy to direct city attorneys and others, whose
time and skill could certainly be put to use in other areas, to re-write and
then enforce laws which would, in effect, shut down most of the city's adult
entertainment businesses.
Rudolph Giuliani: The Hypocrisy
Besides this Puritanical obsession being a ridiculous misdirection of the
government's limited resources, even more pointedly, Giuliani's actions are
hypocritical to the extreme.
In Giuliani's view, working class guys shouldn't be able to enjoy a local
strip club, but it's okay for him to commit adultery by having a mistress!
Not only that, but his mistress should be provided with city police
protection when Giuliani is not busy squiring her around the City.
Maybe Rudolph Giuliani should spend less time worrying about other men
looking at naked breasts, and more time applying his ostensibly strict moral
standards to himself! |
