Crime Spree
Christopher Hitchens tells the NYC nanny to go to hell.
In the space of a few hours, Hitchens managed to break a slew of New York's pettier laws: He sat on an upended milk crate, took his feet off bike pedals, put his bag on the subway seat next to him, fed pigeons in Central Park and sat on a subway step. He also smoked in a bar and in a restaurant.
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Looks like the only thing he didn’t do was dance without a cabaret license. (Admittedly, that one has been mitigated a bit.) IIRC, conspiring to commit a misdemeanor is a felony, so he may actually be an even bigger criminal than he knows. All he needs now is an ashtray in his office.
It just goes to show, he hasn’t lost any of the that radical spirit.
Oh Christopher…you big Anarchist you!
As if Hitchens’ commentary wasn’t annoying enough. Now he has to piss off people in 3D!
I hope he gets Al Capone’s cell and all his opera records are broken(Any “Odd Couple” fans out there??).
Hitch is reported to have gorged himself on ‘junk’ food as well as using ‘unapproved’ words and thinking impure thoughts while on his spree. Sounds like he is setting himself up for a hard fall.
I have mixed feeling about this. On the one hand, I despise such “nanny-state” laws and I appreciate seeing them mocked. On the other, I’d love to see Hitchens get a righteous beatdown from the NYPD for countless other reasons. Decisions, decisions…
Hey, maybe there IS hope for anyone; I suspect he is sincere in his recent disgust with an increasingly ridiculous and impotent left. I myself baited the man into telling an anti-soviet joke at a lecture, and it wasn’t bad at all: “Why is a communist canvasser better than a communist car? You can close the door on the canvasser!”
As self-serving as this article was, it is enheartening to see more media and politicians pandering to Libertarians.
Maybe the politicos will try to pass a law in favor of deregulation. 😉
Wow. Hitchens really broke all of those nanny-state laws? And in such a short timeframe??? Shouldn’t the world logically have come to an end or something?
Maybe they should make a contest out of this. Depending on what one considers to be nanny state laws, it could be really interesting.
More evidence of the sad decline of Mr. Hitchens;or is he branching out into other media and advertising his availability for some lucky Morning Zoo radio programme?
maybe it’s geographical, but i got a kick out of this. the ny post drops its pro-authoritarian stance occasionally when they get a chance to kick around bloomberg, whom they hate more than leonard jeffries.