Eric Adams, The Undercover Mayor, Turkish Traps, The Aristocracy of the Streets and Mayor Dinkins' Revenge
Why Eric Adams's indictment feels like a fake prosecution to smoke out foreign networks around mayoralty. Long may he reign.
“I do a lot of praying..I look forward when I leave here, to go on and continue to do what I do moving our city forward: that is what needs to take place now.” — Eric Adams, arriving in Jamaica, Queens Greater Allen AME Cathedral of NY.
“This is a test for us,” said Adams, founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, who went on to define just what he meant by “us”: “Every person of color in this city, particular those who have any level of prominence better understand they’re coming for my brother today. They’re coming for you tomorrow.”
Adams ordered French fries, and unprompted, said, “This is going to be one of the most fascinating mayoralties in history.” He later added, “Anyone who believes there’s not a God, they need to watch my journey.”
What is a cop? A “constable on patrol.” What does he — and increasingly she — patrol? The realm, of course. It’s a big job, especially in the Big Apple. Some might even call it a calling.
And maybe that calling extends to the whole planet. Maybe it extends to travel on Turkish airlines where you can map out all the networks trying to pay bribes to Rudy Giuliani Eric Adams. Maybe it extends to night clubs.
You see it as a Turkish bribe; I see it as an invaluable intelligence collection operation done by a “former”(?) plainclothes police officer.
Why it’s almost like there are a bunch of people whose job it is to get compromised to bring down criminal networks. And it’s totally normal stuff to show up at the FBI building without your lawyers when you are mayor of the … check notes … the most populous city in America.
I, of course, don’t know anything about any of that.
But if I did, I might even think of the mayor’s cell phone as a listening device, hoovering — that one’s for you, J. Edgar — up all their data. Siri can listen to you. So can Alexa. And those two bitches be snitching on you to Uncle Sam. Of course the NSA knew when and where the mayor was at all times. Be serious now.
We’re told that Adams leaned on the New York Fire Department to approve the Turkish consulate building.
As you know no fire department is so corrupt as to hold up construction permits as they seek “donations” to their “charities.” Don’t you want to remember September 11th? Never you mind that two — two! — ex-NYC fire chiefs were arrested in a corruption scandal.
Adams is “corrupt”? Oh come off it. We had a federal informant president. Why not an undercover mayor?
And what if Eric Adams wants to be indicted for the precedent it would set?
Okay, okay. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Jesus, Charles! Focus, okay!?
Boston’s Police Department was the subject of the 2006 film, The Departed, and I saw it alone opening night at the Boston Commons theatre when I was 17. It was so good that I took a bunch of my friends to see it later that week.
This is perhaps my favorite scene.
Oliver Queenan : [during Costigan's interview] We have a question: Do you want to be a cop, or do you want to appear to be a cop? It's an honest question. A lot of guys just want to appear to be cops. Gun, badge, pretend they're on TV.
The Departed taught me a lot about bravery — about choosing do the right thing even when others more powerful than you are getting all the attention and awards and to take it all with a grin. It was something that never left me and while it’s not my favorite film it’s certainly up there along with Shotcaller, The Dark Knight, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Of course our hero — spoiler alert — William Costigan doesn’t make it but the foulmouthed Sergeant Dignam does. Dignam kills the villain and there’s a lesson in that too. Dignam wasn’t lying when he said he was “the best friend you have on the face of this earth.” There’s a brotherhood for this sort of thing and it is not without sacrifice, sometimes considerable. If you know you know.
One of the stories we’re not supposed to talk about is how all these foreign aristocrats come over here and become assimilated into the American deep state. We don’t talk enough about aristocratic virtue — something accessible to all people, all times — even though John Adams and Thomas Jefferson wrote openly about a “natural aristocracy.”
We all know the “give us your poor” stuff but there have been not a few who have come over with a bit more going on. This stuff has been going on since the Marquis de Lafayette. To attend a U.S. Naval Academy graduation is to see the sons and daughters of mobsters, schoolteachers and deposed aristocracy take an oath to protect our Union. “Families are always rising and falling in America,” says Billy Costigan, quoting Hawthorne.
What if — and I’m spitballing here — someone deliberately became a federal informant in order to clean up the system? That would be wild right?
Being an undercover is one of the most noble callings there is. It’s dangerous — way more dangerous than serving in some stupid foreign way — and it doesn’t end when you fill out your time card. There’s no overtime. There are no vacations. And sometimes you don’t even get a pension.
You can’t run back to the embassy. You don’t get traded. You’re just dead. If you’re acknowledged it’s done quietly, in nondescript bars and barely read blog posts. No, service ends when you’re in the ground. Sometimes not even then. The New York Police Department’s motto is Fidelis ad Mortem — “Faithful Unto Death" but the real players transcend death itself. They hand over the operation to their sons or daughters by blood or by adoption.
So you want to live forever? Do the things that echo in eternity.
Not all of us are born to Wayne Manor. Some of us come up from the streets. Some of us know how to protect the streets because we are of the streets.
There’s another scene here that I’m thinking about when I think about Eric Adams.
We know that Harvey Dent (played, of course by Mormon Aaron Eckhart) is ultimately compromised by the Joker and becomes quite villianous but not before he bravely sacrifices himself. “I am the Batman,” he says as he offers himself up as bait to lure out the Joker.
Harvey Dent : [during a press conference] The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.
So there’s another story about a young black boy — Eric Leroy Adams — who was so poor that he often brought a bag of clothes to school with him in case of a sudden eviction from his home. He lived precariously in shittily run housing projects. He was given his name — Eric Leroy Adams — which means “always ruler,” “king,” and Earth—and not much else.
Let’s start with the basics, which we can get when we read Wikipedia.
Poverty can be traumatic. That’s the trauma that’s useful for constructing different identifies. (I recommend going to prep school and being molested by a close relative but poverty will do.)
Young master Adams was criming before most of us are even driving. Adams was arrested, of course, early in his life Adams even joined a gang. He got caught and promised to be good. And then he joined the biggest gang of them all — The New York Police Department, where he served for 22 years.
Is Adams still a cop? Oh, what a naughty question! Maybe he’s a dark knight.
The NYPD was not a happy place for Adams who chafed under its corruption. He left as a captain. And who could blame him? White cops raised their guns at Adams when he was working as a plainclothes officer; he was mistaken for a suspect! Good heavens! That could have been that.
Who sent Adams on this path? He was mentored by Black Deep Stater Herbert Daughtry of The House of the Lord Pentecostal Church. It was Daughtry who suggested that by joining the police force, Adams could aid in reforming police culture from within. Adams would later attend his church often.
You might have noticed that Daughtry, along with the NAACP’s Hazel Dukes, were standing next to Adams the other day.
'Will you be quiet?' Dukes asked as the crowd chanted. 'Will you shut up?'
Dukes continued: 'I'm 92 years of age. I've known this young man for over 40 years. I come with a heavy heart today but my head is unbowed. He's going to have his day in court and we're going to stand by him.'
Other Black Adams supporters include the late William Lynch Jr., who was an advisor to Mayor David Dinkins, who was also a friend to Adams. It was only after Dinkins died in 2020 that Adams entered the race for Mayor.
Adams’ Black girlfriend works a no show job at the Department of Energy — which is not at all a front from the U.S. intelligence community. Oh, and his son is an actor, which doesn’t suggest that it runs in the family at all. Oh, and his lawyer? Yeah, that’s Alex Spiro, the same $2000 an hour lawyer for Elon Musk that I stung a few years ago when I was trying to get Musk to sue Ryan Mac now of the compromised New York Times.
What was Eric Adams doing? I think he was doing Giuliani but this time for America — you know, running around collecting bribes, stinging foreign actors. I think he was getting Dinkins’s Revenge.
Don’t worry, Mayor Dinkins. It isn’t lost on me that Ron Giller was the oppo guy for Rudy Giuliani. He represents Clearview in my litigation against them. I, of course, am represented by Bernie Kleinman who formerly represented the Bilzerians.
It’s dangerous to be an effective Mayor and you often have to worry about your own security detail. Shortly after becoming mayor, Adams sought a waiver from the Conflicts of Interest Board to hire his brother, Bernard, for a $210,000 paying job in the NYPD, where he would serve as the head of his personal security detail. Bernard is now involved with black-tie philanthropy.
Is Eric Adams my brother? That, I suppose, remains to be seen but a Russian proverb is that a fisherman always recognizes another fisherman from afar.
Going to nightclubs isn’t exactly how I’d do it. Or is it?
As you know Mayor Adams and I are both Turkish spies. Or something.
Now the Turkish world has been so very naughty. They’ve had plenty of chances. I spent 70 days traveling within Türkiye last year. For what it’s worth I have great respect for that part of the world.
And it’s not lost on me that Adams’ Director of Protocol in the Mayor's Office for International Affairs Rana Abbasova is Azeri. "This might cause a big stink later on," Abbasova said in a text. Indeed.
Or it might lead to Azerbaijan, like Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, before it crews up with America — or facing serious sanctions.
Unfortunately the situation in Türkiye is dire. Finances are not really good. My Turkish friends are broke broke. Sometimes I wonder if they are even actually my friends. It’s hard to tell over there. Wes Clark Jr. says his dad says that all conspiracies are true in Türkiye. My uncle, who served there for years, says it’s the most dangerous place he ever went. I couldn’t get enough even though more than a few people wanted to kill me there.
Anyway the Turkish government — if it can be called that — has decided to double down on their slave, cult empire and naturally they’ve cultivated allies with other slave, cult empires.
Don’t you dare notice that for all of Bibi’s fighting with Erdogan Netanyahu and he are aligned on the smuggling of illegal oil through Kurdistan and Azerbaijan.
If you like Turkish food you’ll notice that there’s a lot of Turkish illegal aliens coming into the country. You can ask them questions in Turkish if their boss isn’t looking too closely.
You might also notice that Matt Michelsen, mega donor to Greg Abbott and human trafficker, has his own ties to the Russian-Turkish mafia world. He’s the one that’s been bussing migrants to New York and Chicago.
Pay especial attention to all the migrants being sent to Chicago and New York — two areas the Russian-Jewish mafia controls. The purpose here is to drive up rents, especially in the greater boroughs. You know, the sort of place where Adams’s family worked so hard to be able to afford a house.
If you’re interested in this type of thing I recommend studying Eugène-François Vidocq who was the forerunner of the criminal turned intelligence professional.
He founded France’s Sûreté Nationale. I’ll do more on him in a later post but I want you to know that the French really are the masters at this sort of thing and that they trained me well. They, too, are working at cleaning up New York. You might even say that they have a Clear View on the subject.
Quite a few of us have had less than positive with law enforcement, especially when we’re non-white and young.
Of course not many of us have ranged the gamut of being investigated by FBI and later having them as a customer. Not exactly a pleasant experience, if I must say, but I do love a happy customer.
My relationship with federal law enforcement is terribly complicated and altogether beyond the scope of this article but there’s no denying that American law enforcement, when done well, presents a path to the American middle class.
The cop friends I have I cherish and I have always made myself available to do the right thing. You’ve seen my writing on this subject.
To be sure I’m too aristocratic — flamboyant, shambolic even — for many of their tastes but I have never stopped loving my country. I tend to love the things that never love me back.
Unlike Adams, I am, as you know, unfit for the grind that law enforcement presents. Your neighborly neighborhood police officer I’m not and no one would dare mistake me for a man of the people though I do like to mull about around them.
But I do know a thing or two about undercover operations.
Who, indeed, will rid us of these troublesome “advisors”?
Job well done, Mr. Mayor.
A slight coda on this one:
How everyone else responds is interesting too.
The Queen of New York — AOCIA — has called for Adams to step down. (Duh, he was never going to run for re-election. He called himself the “Biden of Brooklyn”… )
She’s called for increased federal support for public housing. If it works in Singapore why not in America?
Adams, for his part, reminded the CIA that he’s Gotham’s protector.
“I’m really surprised to hear her call for the resignation of the second Black mayor in the city. Here is a person who has stood up for those who were convicted of wrongdoing and saying that they should not be held accountable. So I mean, you know, the public really takes that with a grain of salt.” Adams told News 12’s Amanda Bossard.
The mayor later added, “You know, what is unique about this administration is our ability to stay focused. I don't listen to those comments that come from a, you know, just basically a no-show congresswoman.”
If the rent is too damn high, we might ask why. To be sure, AirBnb is a part of it. But really it’s about the global rich moving money through American real estate.
A pied-à-terre is fine but we really do need to do something about the Swiss bank accounts in the sky known as “luxury real estate,” especially as people move further and further out and increase their commute and carbon foot print.
Everyone wants European cities—and American economic performance.
New York City is the ___ of America. What if New York were the New York of America?
By the end of Mayor Adams’s time in office he will have taught us the importance of density and diversity in maintaining our national security.
Oh and my Black Deep State friends.
Sometimes you’re Felix. Sometimes you’re Lucius Fox. Sometimes you’re Josephine Baker. Sometimes you’re the Protagonist. Sometimes you’re James Baldwin.
I’m happy to be along for the ride.
But we Johnsons have been with you ever since Lincoln and Tulsa and our infiltration of the Klan. You remember my Great-uncle Quay don’t you? Enough said about that.
Shall we do California next? Let’s.
I have just the woman in mind.
And if she won’t do it, well, you know I am moving back to California…