Rest easy tonight knowing your tax dollars are working to provide security for some of the world’s worst dictators.
The cost of keeping the dictators safe? At least $20 million.
That’s how much New York City forked out during the first two weeks of last year’s General Assembly, according to a city official who spoke to FOX News on condition of anonymity.
And $20 million may be just the tip of the iceberg. The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the Secret Service, the U.S. Marshal’s Service and the New York State Police will also be called in to provide protective details for several of the 138 heads of state expected to attend.
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Ahmadinejad is not the only world leader who will be under heavy protection while in New York. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will also be in attendance.
The cost of protecting them includes radiation and explosives sweeps, patrols of the East River alongside U.N. headquarters, and heavy security at the high-end hotels where the leaders are staying.
Ahmadinejad is staying at the Intercontinental Barclay, a hotel the Iranians settled on after being turned down by several others. Qaddafi, who failed to find a hotel that would house him and was refused permission to pitch a tent in Central Park, will reportedly stay at the Libyan Mission a few hundred yards from the U.N.
The money the NYPD pays for security is eventually reimbursed by the State Department, said Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Paul Browne. He added that State is currently behind in payments.
While at the G20 President Obama will be calling for a new economic world order. Where his protectionist policies fit into that new order remains unclear. Also unclear is whether he’ll cede national soveriegnty to states like Venezuela and Iran.
And while all the blow hards of the world are carping about climate change and CO2, they’re spewing carbon as if we were heading into the next ice age.
I bet the Hell’s Angels would have taken the contract for far less.
Get the U.S. out of the UN and the UN out of the U.S.
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