We got the inspectors' reports from the port authorities in New York who were mindful of the rights of the press under two national and various state and city freedom of information statutes.
Last December, US regulators finally banned the practice, and the EU commission, a month later, said it wanted to do the same, an intent opposed by the British government keen to defend City "freedoms" from Brussels.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said the display in Trafalgar Square symbolises London's "solidarity" with Paris and "our feelings of unity in grief and in outrage and determination of these two great historic cities of freedom to stand together in the fight for that freedom".
For two decades Ms. Anderson's songs and stories have mused on subjects at stake in the disaster: cities, information, freedom, technology, mortality and American identity.
But at the same time he is offering cities more freedom to decide how to make the cuts by working far more closely with the NHS, colleges and the police.
"Nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our cities where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another".
And it is an unwise act because it creates a class of people in this country who are uniquely vulnerable; and also unwise because it sustains an underground culture and economy that could one day convey, shelter and support a small number of people who wish to destroy our cities, our freedom and our way of life.
In part, it can be explained by the differing lengths of experience of SUMPs, with Romania only now starting to develop them, Germany and Spain yet to be committed to a formal process, and the Netherlands giving cities the freedom to decide whether to develop GVVPs.
Vigilance committees in New York and other Northern cities provided freedom seekers with legal assistance, food, clothing, money, employment, and temporary shelter.
It's a city of freedom, culture, dynamism".
Crowds watching the game in the city's Freedom Park didn't stay for the end.
