Escape From New York?

I watched the 1981 sci fi classic Escape From New York today. It is a surreal look into the future from a 1980’s perspective, where New York City becomes a maximum security prison due to the exponentially rising crime rates, and all bridges from the city are armed with mines so that the criminals can not escape.

Well, with all of the mobs and gangs of all nationalities as well as young thugs and flash mobs, pimps and drug dealers, foreign terrorists who seek our destruction living there, coupled with all of the criminal white collar crooks and the criminal politicians who have broken their oath and disarmed the citizens and denied them their constitutional rights, in reality New York city may be well on it’s way to film director John Carpenter’s vision. Isn’t it funny how life imitates art sometimes? Maybe it is time to let the remaining good people who are trapped there leave, and then close down the bridges.