I don’t understand that. Protection is personal. With the increase in anarchists in this city, we have a serious problem with white supremacy.
I admit that I was under the impression that 'white supremacists' were supposed to be fascists rather than anarchists in the current narrative, but whatever. The point is that this makes perfect sense. If you cannot trust anyone except blood kin with your safety, then of course it makes sense to appoint blood kin to manage your security arrangements.
It makes sense the way it makes sense for the mafia, anyway. Even in Dune, House Atreides trusted a non-family member -- Thurfir Hawat, Master of Assassins -- with the security of their core leadership.
How it makes sense in New York City is harder to say. Indeed, it seems to make nonsense of the whole idea of a community like New York City, which is predicated on the idea that people from all over can come together and form a community of mutual respect and common faith. If that is no longer true -- if 'white supremacy' means not only that white people cannot be trusted as ranking police, nor that people of your own race could suffice, but that no one but your own blood kin can be -- then the whole structure that made New York City possible has vanished. No city of the sort New York aspired to be could survive such a truth, if indeed it is true.
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Even in Dune, House Atreides trusted a non-family member....
Since we're bringing fiction into this, in CJ Cherryh's Foreigner universe, a human "advisor" to an alien empire on the alien planet entrusts his personal safety to a team of alien bodyguards, who are drawn from a guild whose purpose is to assassinate those they view as bad guys. And the head of that alien empire entrusts the security of his empire to that same human.
Regarding Adams' nepotism, I'm less concerned about that--even given his claimed need of personal protection (which is odd, since baby brother ran the parking system of a university before being picked up by Adams, and the job he was picked for is a PR slot)--than I am about Adams' avowed support for the concept of aliens voting in City elections, so long as the aliens are present legally.
Adams campaigned, in part, on opposing having non-citizens voting in City elections. He's shown himself typical, an exemplar, of Progressive-Democratic Party politicians: campaigning on one thing in order to get elected, and then doing precisely the opposite once in office.
Eric Hines
I wonder if a whole bunch of New Yorkers just got that sinking feeling, reading this. I understand his brother was recently Assistant Director of Parking Operations or some other similarly exalted title at the campus of a regional medical college. But aside form that: What white supremacy problems has NYC had recently, aside from de Blasio and the Cuomo brothers? I'm unable to dredge up a single instance in memory.
Since we're bringing fiction into this…
It is fiction, though almost unique in its genre in that every being involved is human. I don’t know how well fiction can capture alien natures, but even in a world in which human nature is as involved in total war as this one, some capacity to trust outside of blood relationships was possible.
So he believes in family supremacy.
Horrifying. I just linked this post at my latest post, The Great Liquidation:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/67041.html
I can only think of the Godfather scene in which Michael hisses at Fredo, "Don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again."
It's very easy to understand why someone would be incapable of trusting someone outside his immediate family, but it's a sign of a desperately sick culture, one far too sick to have a good shot at responsibly administering such a huge city. There's a reason nepotism has been common since we came down out of the trees, but there's also a reason it's been in disrepute for thousands of years.
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