A Very Real
Possibility
- Sometime in
the very
near
future...
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New
York’s
Mayor
Michael
Bloomberg |
Brooklyn,
New York -
“There was
blood,
carnage and
gore
everywhere.
The sound of
the
screeching
tires and
sirens
coming from
the
ambulances
were only
momentarily
silenced
by the blood-curdling
screams and
howls of
horrified parents bent over
injured
children,
and others crying over
the bodies
of their
parents,
siblings and
loved ones.”
“The
revolting
smell of gun
powder mixed
with burnt
flesh,
smoking from
red-hot
bullets,
still
permeated
the air.
And the
macabre
reflection
of the
revolving
lights of
the police
cruisers,
ambulances
and other
emergency
vehicles as
they bounced
off the
chrome pans
of the steel
orchestra,
some
instruments
hanging from
their racks
by one hook,
others with
gaping holes
of still
smoldering
metal after
being shot
through, and
others
totally
destroyed -
all
completed a
cruel
caricature
of the
unbelievable
tragedy that
had just
unfolded.”
“Among the
carnage was
a spilt
giant pot
of Corn
Soup (a
Caribbean
menu
favorite),
scattered
bags of nuts
from the
nuts’ man
(peanuts vendor), a
child’s
cycle, a
cane,
portable
beach chairs,
and a copy
of “The
Divine
Comedy
(Dante’s
Inferno).”
The book was
owned by a
now
critically-injured student who
had been trying
to get a
jump on her
upcoming
college
freshman
readings,
between
her music practice
breaks in
the
orchestra;
she who now
clung
tenuously to
life by a
thread.”
“The bodies
of those too
badly
disfigured
to be
recognized
from the
billy clubs
(batons),
tasers and
the hundreds
of bullets
fired, still
remained
uncovered.
And in a
distance
among the
scores of
young
steelpan
musicians in
handcuffs,
appeared to
be none
other than
the
President’s
daughters.
Remember the
President’s
daughters
had been gifted
with two
tenor pans
and had
eagerly joined
the steel
orchestra
for the
Summer.
The terror
of what had
just
happened was
permanently
etched on
their faces
like plaster
casts.”
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“Later, the
Mayor would
stand at the
podium and
express his
regret at
the loss of
life, but
that the
police
department
“had acted
within the
guidelines.””
“The
steelbands
had to be
shut down -
by force,
and by any
means
necessary.
After all,
it was the
Friday night
before
Panorama,
and - it was
after 10:00
p.m.
Moreover,
the Mayor
would go on
to say that
the decision
to mobilize
and move
against the
steel
orchestras
and their
musicians,
was in the
interest of
‘National
Security.’
Or maybe he
really meant
to the new
‘pioneers’
of the
neighborhood?”
The above -
while
disturbing
to digest - is
a
very
likely
scenario,
based on
recent
events
at the pan
yards of New
York.
Read the full
story on the
siege of NY
Pan yards
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