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Giuliani denounces Time for lauding mafia head
12/1/98
[re: Mayor Giuliani attacking Time Magazine for Citing Lucky Luciano as
one of the 100 Most Influential business Leaders of 20th Century]
Dear Editor,
As usual, Mayor Giuliani wants everything his way. He opens most public speaking
appearances with a third-rate “Godfather” imitation, appears in a Saturday Night
Live skit as a Mafia enforcer (during which he beats a black actor posing as
Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry to death with a baseball bat) and forces
his staff to repeatedly watch the Godfather movies. Yet, when TIME magazine
puts Mafia legend Lucky Luciano on its list of 100 most influential business
geniuses of the 20th century, the Mayor goes ballistic. Contrary to the Mayor’s
assertions, Luciano was not, “one of the biggest killers of the 20th century”.
More New Yorkers have died, directly or indirectly, from Giuliani’s repressive
police state than have been killed by the Mafia in its entire history. Like
Luciano the Mayor is famous for eliminating his opposition as well as close
associates that dare to be less than slavishly loyal. He appears to be as involved
in union corruption as Luciano ever was. In fact, taken as a whole, the Giuliani
Administration has committed more crimes and had a more harmful effect on the
freedom of New Yorkers than the Mafia ever did. Perhaps the Mayor is just angry
that Time didn’t put him on the last year’s ‘leaders and revolutionaries’ cover
with Adolf Hitler and Ayatollah Khomeini. The Mayor shouldn’t worry. He’ll certainly
make Time’s year 2000 cover celebrating world leaders most likely to be the
anti-Christ.
Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists’ Response To Illegal State Tactics)
(718) 369-2111
255 13th St.
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215
e mail ARTISTpres@aol.com
http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html
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