Fixate on state villainy, not statements<\/p>\n
Valley Stream, L.I.: I\u2019m writing this letter in the hopes of getting this paper back on track as to what its priorities should be. For the past couple of months, the Editorial Board and a veritable horde of guest columnists have been fixated on the mayor and his stance on Israel. I think all your readers get the message of where you guys stand on this issue. I got it about 30 articles ago.<\/p>\n
While you\u2019re doing this, you\u2019re all but ignoring the fact that the worst group of thugs in the history of this country are destroying democracy every single day, and there\u2019s an incredibly important election looming. You have a problem with the mayor\u2019s words. Words can inflict damage, but actions can do infinitely worse. For God\u2019s sake, we nearly had an ICE agent kill a child in the city<\/a> and you\u2019re still talking about a speech. Crimes against this nation in its capital are happening literally every minute, and you need to focus your attention on it.<\/p>\n You are lost in your obsession. I beg you to get back to the real concerns of this country and most of your readership. It\u2019s not one mayor\u2019s words in New York, it\u2019s the actual actions of outright criminals in Washington. Your editorial pages need a wake-up call. I hope this serves as one.<\/p>\n Allan Canino<\/p>\n Aptly named<\/p>\n Mineola, L.I.: ICE is obviously a very cold federal agency!<\/p>\n Philip Martone<\/p>\n Undeserving of defense<\/p>\n Smithtown, L.I.: Voicers Carol Hillson and Laurie Aron and many white, liberal protesters are outraged because an ICE agent shot a fleeing criminal on a crowded street in daylight. They act like they\u2019re noble heroes protecting the poor illegal criminal from \u201cthe man.\u201d Where are their protests when non-ICE agents commit crimes that endanger others? I guess that doesn\u2019t upset them because the shooters are almost always minorities, and liberals think that minorities are inferior and can\u2019t control themselves anyway.<\/p>\n Andrew Ross<\/p>\n Strategic sympathy?<\/p>\n Astoria: When a bona fide menace to society named Oscar Belgal tries to flee from ICE agents while his 5-year-old son sits in the back seat of the car and is labeled a \u201cgood dad\u201d by congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, I have to wonder: What is the meaning of a trusted public official? Belgal, who terrorized his neighbors, was also classified as a \u201cNew Yorker\u201d by Mayor Mamdani. After Belgal was shot by an ICE agent during his aborted escape, Attorney General Letitia James offered her prayers to him and his family. With all this support for the bad guy, do these trusted public officials actually rely on the menaces of society to support them at the polls come election time?<\/p>\n Aris Sakellaridis<\/p>\n Voter intimidation<\/p>\n Sauquoit, N.Y.: It\u2019s a federal crime for non-citizens to register and vote in federal elections, punishable by prison time and deportation. Yet, we\u2019re told by this administration that non-citizen voting is rampant and must be eradicated. This is completely false. After examining its data, the conservative Heritage Foundation found no crisis of non-citizen voting. This administration has waged a war against mail-in voting, demanded states\u2019 voter rolls, threatened election workers and threatened to seize voting machines. They\u2019re planning to send 1,000 poll monitors and haven\u2019t ruled out sending ICE agents and\/or armed guards to polling places, which is unlawful. During the primaries, ICE agents confronted a poll worker<\/a> in Syracuse. With the terror ICE agents have inflicted on our immigrant community, these people are petrified to go to the store, attend church or send their children to school, much less attempt to vote.<\/p>\n Karen Strange<\/p>\n Complicit courts<\/p>\n Brooklyn: A little-noticed decision by the Alabama Supreme Court could show how President Trump might try to get a third term. The court ruled that it could not kick the winner of the Republican primary for governor off the ballot even if he violated state constitution requirements for governor. While Alabama is only one state, there are too many MAGA-controlled states that would allow Trump to win Republican primaries and get on the ballot despite his being constitutionally ineligible to serve, and claim he won the election \u2014 or would have won if lying, cheating Democrats had not stolen it \u2014 and ignore the Supreme Court even if the majority ruled he can\u2019t serve.<\/p>\n Martin Selbst<\/p>\n Bald-faced lies<\/p>\n San Francisco: Sleepy Don has his head so far up there that he can\u2019t see the forest for the trees. Fat Elvis has tried to tell the American people the stupidest lies ever, such as prices on groceries and everything else are \u201cdown, way, way down\u201d and \u201cthe poll numbers are all fake news.\u201d The Lyin\u2019 King has also been claiming, \u201cThis is the best economy in history.\u201d In a couple of weeks, the Deranged One will be confronted by reality. Undoubtedly, a stack of crazy, low-IQ and weird lies will follow.<\/p>\n Jimmy Layton<\/p>\n Pointless<\/p>\n Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J.: Asking fired Ambassador Kimberley Guilfoyle to testify before Congress will gain nothing. Like all politicians, she will lie. I would not expect anything less.<\/p>\n Robert Stiloski<\/p>\n Particularly effective<\/p>\n Manhattan: Looks like it\u2019s our cars versus our health. Voicer David DiBello excoriated Gov. Hochul for charging him $9 to drive into Midtown and Lower Manhattan. He must speak for many. On the other hand, David\u2019s and others\u2019 financial hit, along with Hochul\u2019s concern about our health, has secured exciting results. Columbia University scientists concluded that the partial congestion pricing program has reduced the \u201cfine particulate matter\u201d in the congestion zone by 13%. Those are particles smaller than 2.5 millionths of a meter in diameter \u2014 so small that they get past our limited defenses and into our tissues, bloodstreams and organs to cause lung, heart, kidney and other diseases. Thirteen percent! Thank you, David and governor. I look forward to the implementation of the full congestion pricing program and further health gains.<\/p>\n Lisa Meyer<\/p>\n Age discrimination<\/p>\n Brooklyn: I always thought a doctor is supposed to try to help all people. I recently had three elderly friends tell me the same story in a week. They went to an orthopedic surgeon and all three were told that because they were over 70, the doctor couldn\u2019t see them. One is a veteran. He fought so these doctors refusing these people can have the jobs they have. I guess once we hit 70, we\u2019re an afterthought. Now, if these doctors saw the patients and said because of your age, I don\u2019t recommend surgery but we can try other things, I can accept that. However, to turn them away is a slap in the face. The body ages. It happens to all of us. I\u2019m living proof with all my ailments. I just keep going as best I can. 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