NEW YORK—A small crowd gathered at the “Million Big Gulp March” at City Hall Park Monday to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed 16-ounce soda ban.
“I’m Zack Huff. This is my first event. I am 19 years old,” said the spokesman and organizer of NYC Liberty HQ, which coordinated the event.
The participants were not all necessarily pro-soda, but all felt that the ban endangered their liberty.
“From how much salt we can put in our foods, [to] how much drinks we can buy,” the government is taking too much control of people’s lives, Huff said.
New York City Councilman Dan Halloran said Bloomberg was concentrating on issues of lesser importance.
“The crime statistics we just got in shows that violent crime in NYC is up,” Halloran said. “More people have been shot this year than any point in the last 10 years.”
