HILLARY FLOUTS RULES THAT LAND NEW YORKERS IN JAIL
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'
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Hillary Clinton shakes hands with a New York City voter on April 7, 2016
Lost in media coverage of Hillary Clinton struggling to use a subway turnstile in New York City on Thursday was the fact that she broke Metropolitan Transportation Authority rules.
MTA’s “Rules of Conduct” subject the city’s street performers to fines and possible imprisonment for taking shows on subway cars. A review of Section 1050.6(c)1 of the subway rules by the Guardian on Friday shows the presidential hopeful flouted them on her way from Yankee Stadium to 170th Street.
“The incident is all the more galling because there are actual, regular New Yorkers trying to make ends meet who are arrested for violating the same rules that Clinton disregards with impunity,” the newspaper wrote. “These regular New Yorkers are, of course, the acrobatic showtime performers and musicians – a cultural point of pride for the city – who perform legally on platforms and other areas of the transit system (not always without harassment) but are barred from playing on board subway cars by the same rules that should have prevented Clinton’s campaigning.”
Matthew Christian of BuskNY, an advocacy group for New York subway performers, said Clinton should not have been allowed to operate by a different set of rules.
“When performers are playing music they are thought to be committing a crime and arrested,” Christian told the newspaper by phone. “Apparently, when Hillary Clinton does public speaking on a train car that is not considered a violation of the statute.”
Performers who do not keep acts to subway platforms may be subject to civil fines up to $100 and imprisonment of up to 10 days.
The former secretary of state was joined by Rubén Díaz Jr, the president of the borough of the Bronx, and a gaggle of reporters.
Guardian readers acknowledged that while the infraction may seem small, it is also indicative of a woman who feels she is above the law.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” said one reader on Friday in reference to George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm.”
“Yet another example, albeit a relatively small one, of how in America, and probably Europe, there are people for whom complying with the law is mandatory and other people for complying with the law is optional,” added reader Gregory Brittain.
The FBI is currently investigating Clinton’s handling of government documents during her tenure as President Obama’s secretary of state. The Democrat’s decision to use of a “home-brew” email server to conduct official business may have run her afoul of a subsection of the Espionage Act related to “gross negligence” on the job.
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Hillary Clinton rides the subway in New York City
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