re: #153 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

A couple of issues. First, the Secret Service does not close the bridge when the President is in town for a couple of reasons, the biggest one is that he is only in town for a couple of hours at most, and not addressing a quarter million plus gathering of people. Second, the Pope is going to do more than just lecture people on religious liberty, and third, a lot of people don’t have the slightest frickin’ clue what religious liberty is.

I don’t know if you lived here in ‘79 when John Paul II celebrated Mass on the Parkway, but they did not even come close to this kind of “Shut it all down” idiocy. And Frank Fucking Rizzo was mayor; a guy who ruined Philly’s Bicentennial by warning people that throngs of hippies were going to overrun the city.

Jesus Christ, they are shutting down traffic as far north as Girard Avenue. The one bridge and every highway around downtown will be closed; no private traffic will be allowed on the streets; and mass transit will be severely limited.

You live there. This doesn’t bother you in the slightest?