NYC Police are now the national focus of viral video of a daylight takedown of a tranny teenager, whose "arrest" looked more like a "kidnapping"

Why do our "preservers and protectors"  have to look so bad doing their job ???

City cops in New York are suddenly looking like the thugs of a South American junta of the '60s & '70s, who just roam the streets looking for people to "disappear" 

And what were the charges  ---  criminal mischief and making graffiti 

Mayor compared the scene to Portland, Oregon, and said it was the wrong time and place for the NYPD to arrest a protester and take them away in an unmarked van

Incident prompted Governor Cuomo to threaten defunding the NYPD

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One of the most telling things about  >>> THIS INCIDENT <<<  is that the police brass,  "police professionals" in the media,  police unions and other pro-police types are all trying to defend what went down.....

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According to one report,  "Several officers were hurt and one protester was put into an unmarked van and taken into custody. Fellow demonstrators said it looked like she was being abducted....  Kips Bay resident Kyle Landry was recording the peaceful march happening near his apartment and couldn’t believe the confrontation he caught on camera....  “I just saw a girl skateboarding down the street, she goes past a minivan and suddenly the doors burst open and they grab her and they shove her inside,” he said....  Nikki Stone, 18, spent the night in police custody but was released Wednesday morning with a desk appearance ticket...."  ( See "Mayor Says Wrong Time And Place For NYPD To Arrest Protester In Unmarked Van"  by John Diaz  & Lisa Rozner,  7/29/2020,  CBSNewsNY/ TV News Local     [https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/07/29/protester-nikki-stone-released-after-arrest-in-unmarked-van/]).

Nikki Stone was identified by friends as a transgender activist who has been experiencing homelessness.  She was released from a police precinct with a DAT around 1 a.m. Wednesday, and ordered to return to court at a later date to face charges of criminal mischief and making graffiti stemming from five alleged incidents over the last two months.

The CBS article went on to say this:   "Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed the incident Wednesday morning.  'A lot of us have been watching in pain what’s going on in Portland, Oregon,' he said. 'Anything that even slightly suggests that is, to me, troubling, and it’s the kind of thing we don’t want to see in this city....  I think it was the wrong time and the wrong place to effectuate that arrest,'  he added....  Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was disturbed and called on the NYPD to build trust within the community....  'We’re not going to fund local governments in the next budget unless they do what is responsible,' he said...."

Daily News Report Scorches Vito Bruno with an implied "That was then and this is now" charge of hypocrisy

"[VITO BRUNO, a]  former nightclub owner whose past includes since-denied claims of paying off cops and supplying celebrities with drugs says he’s ready to bring law and order back to Brooklyn...."   

                         ---  NY DAILY NEWS,  7/27/2020

According to Denis Slattery's  report in today's Daily News,  "[Some Brooklyn] residents are skeptical of [Vito] Bruno’s claims and his transformation from clubland impressario to Trump-backing conservative....  'Vito Bruno doesn’t represent "law and order," he represents the exact opposite—a return to the bad old days...  Only a man who believes he is above the law openly discusses how he’s broken it.'...   Bruno brushed off concerns from neighbors about his past, which includes hosting unpermitted 'outlaw' parties that raged into the morning hours at defunct and derelict sites across the city, hiring known gang members to work the soirees, along with multiple sordid claims he now refutes...."  (See "Vito Bruno, music insider and former nightclub owner, claims he’ll bring ‘law and order’ to Brooklyn Senate race"  by Denis Slattery, 7/27/2020,   NY Daily News/ Politics/ News   [https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-vito-bruno-law-and-order-nightclub-owner-eighties-outlaw-20200727-czwnqknwbzdzbaoezihkfnjcoe-story.html]).

VITO BRUNO FINALLY MAKES HIS ADMISSION

This two paragraph passage was the most telling in the whole Daily News article:  "....  'They’re going back 40 years to find stuff and you know what I think they’re wasting their money on that stuff because it’s all been published,' he told the Daily News. 'They keep going back to 40 years ago, I think none of us are the same as we were 40 years ago.'...   In 1983, Bruno implied in an interview with the New York Times that he gave large sums of cash to cops at Christmas to turn a blind eye to his activities. In a book about actor John Belushi, journalist Bob Woodward notes that Bruno told him he 'would get drugs' for the Saturday Night Live star...."

When similar charges were made here on this blog,  Vito Bruno and his supporters vehemently denied them  ---  when confronted by the News with the same stuff, Vito Bruno finally fessed up.....   

So, NOW he's no longer an outright liar,  NOW,  Vito Bruno is only a bald-faced hypocrite when it come to law and order.....

Jerrold Nadler seemed completely out of it when he said that ANTIFA is a Washington D.C. myth

Congressman Nadler represents a sliver of lower Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights,  along with a significant part of Bensonhurst that used to vote Republican  ---  In many ways he's as much a Southwest Brooklyn Congressman as Max Rose  ---  so why doesn't the Brooklyn GOP make a bigger deal about taking on Nadler  ---  at least on the issues  ???


Case in point  ---   Nadler's recent refusal to disavow destructive rioters generally;  tied in with his equally troubling outright denial concerning the very existence of ANTIFA


At this stage of national urban unrest,  New York City is only momentarily better off than many other cities, most notably Portland, Oregon;  Seattle, Washington and Chicago, Illinois  ---  so, having a benighted character like Jerrold Nadler tinkering with the levers of power as one of OUR representatives should be a matter of more than passing interest and concern

In the past few weeks, we have seen how quickly things could boil over in Bay Ridge involving BLM and ANTIFA types counter-demonstrating against the puny efforts of Marty Golden and Nicole Malliotakis to get some popular support for their side.  Much of that happened in an area represented in Congress by Jerrold Nadler.  So why no attempt to put Nadler's feet in the fire ?????

The answer is simple,  nobody in the Brooklyn GOP has a clue how to engage the Democrats in the 21st Century  ---  instead they are frozen in the era of "Long Ago and Far Away."

I just saw some interesting video of Jerrold Nadler being accosted and questioned on the street.  His speech and demeanor were indicative of a man who is quite unwell ---  he waddle-walked like a penguin,  and he was barely able to make a verbal utterance.  Thus his non-sensical answers about the rioters and ANTIFA sort of fit the moment perfectly.

In the bigger national picture, Nadler is an Achilles' Heel  ---  but nobody is around to do the Paris number on him.

I'll say it again,  the Brooklyn GOP needs to master the art and science of asymmetric  guerrilla  warfare  ---  the Brooklyn parts of Nadler's district are perfect to wage that fight.

Not debating Colleen Golden about whose lives matter.....

Sometimes the wives of politicians show what airheads they really are  ---  case in point Colleen Golden.....

I had to love the gallows humor in her bullet-proof vest posting on Facebook, with this text overlay:
"Until your child has to wear one of these to work....  I'm not the person to debate whose life matters [and my favorite touch was the blue heart on at the bottom]"

Colleen is right, she's nobody to debate about whose lives matter,  because her POV is deeply tainted by both her whiteness and life of white privilege, and her blueness and life of blue privilege.  Two other very important colors have tainted Colleen  ---  the gold and silver that found its way into the Goldens' coffers over the years starting way, way back.....

No matter what Colleen has to say about bullet-proof vests and the people that might need to wear them to work*  ---  what she's really talking about is that the lives, which matter to her need to have bullet-proof pocketbooks, wallets,  and valises filled with cash and other valuables .....

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* If Colleen's husband were to have his way with all his profligate and violently confrontative demonstrations,  soon enough we all would need bullet-proof vests, both for work AND every moment after work.....

Federal Officers and local Portland Police cleared the streets around the Hatfield Courthouse in the Early-AM Saturday

A few hours after a Federal Judge (not Judge Simon) refused to restrain federal officers in and around the federal courthouse in Portland in spite of evidence of a few possible excesses by the federal officers,  a victory over the local street mob followed in quick succession.....    Once federal officers emerged from the courthouse,  and other units moved down blocks from undisclosed locations in the surrounding area, the street battle around the Mark Hatfield U.S. Courthouse swung against the rioters and in favor of the defenders

After hours of violent attempts to breach the steel fence around the U.S.Courthouse in Portland by a huge crowd of demonstrators filling several blocks around the courthouse,  an announcement was made from inside the courthouse to clear the area  ---  several officers emerged from the courthouse in full tactical gear and launched several barrages of tear gas to disperse the crowd  ---  then wedges of officers began to move the still active demonstrators away from the fence ---  then a line of federal officers began to clear the street in front of the courthouse using tear gas and pellet guns against the crowd which started to retreat faster and faster,  except for an up-armored line of demonstrators with gas masks and shields  ---  shortly after, when a bonfire had been started at an intersection about a block away from the courthouse,  the federal officers again in a line rapidly pushed forward in the direction of the bonfire at a quick pace using mostly pellets against the line of shielded demonstrators, who suddenly were retreating very quickly  ---  the federal officers stopped at the intersection where the bonfire was burning  ---  it was there that Portland Police took over and allowed the firefighters to put out the blaze  ---  several aspects of the federal officers' operation looked like it was coordinated with local police units.....

Federal Judge Michael Simon interferes with the lawful and proper use of Federal Officers in Portland

An overly political Democrat judge has issued an order that endangers federal officers in the lawful performance of their duties in Portland                                                       

In an order supplementing a prior order, Judge Simon has now enforced his previously self-created and novel carve out for 'journalists" and "lawful observers" to not heed the lawful and necessary orders by local police officers for crowds to clear out of particular and limited areas.  >>>  Now, that has been extended to include similar directions and actions by federal officers in defense of the federal courthouse

In this instance, the U.S. Department of Justice had argued that the actions by the federal officers were necessary for the safety of the officers and to protect federal property under siege by a violent, riotous mob of ANTIFA and other agitators and their followers

On July 23, 2020, U.S.District Judge Michael Howard Simon issued a temporary restraining order lasting at least two weeks that prevents federal agents from using force against journalists and something called "legal observers".....

In an earlier case involving local police,  Judge Simon had ruled that journalists and legal observers were exempt from police orders requiring protesters to disperse even though an unlawful assembly had been declared. 

Federal lawyers had since intervened, arguing that journalists and others should have to leave when otherwise properly ordered to do so by federal agents in defense of federal property in Portland.

One wonders why it is even proper for Judge Simon to hear this case. The case was brought by the ACLU and before becoming a federal judge, Simon had done work for the ACLU.  Furthermore, he is married to U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici, someone virulently opposed to the programs of the Trump Administration, and also virulently opposed to the federal officers being in Portland

Just last week, Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden,  were joined by Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici, in calling for the offices of the IGs for the U.S. Departments of Justice and  Homeland Security to investigate what they call the "unrequested presence and violent actions of federal forces in Portland."   In a press release they stated this,  "[T]hese acts are profound offenses against Americans. We demand not only that these acts end, but also that they remove their forces immediately from our state."  With respect to all that, Judge Simon's wife specifically added this:  "Oregonians must be able to exercise their First Amendment rights safely, without being picked up and detained by unidentified federal officers....  We will not rest until we get answers on behalf of Oregonians."

Judge Simon was initially given an interim appointment by President Barack Obama in 2010 and was finally approved over strenuous Republican opposition in 2011. During his career, Judge Simon has issued several orders blocking actions by the Trump Administration, mostly in the area of immigration.

The Question Needs to be Asked --- and Answered --- DId Bishop Nicholas Di Marzio Go to Cardinal McCarricks' Beach House ???

The latest disclosures about pedophile Cardinal Theodore McCarrick raise very relevant questions about the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn and Queens Nicholas Di Marzio  ---  after all, in almost every way,  McCarrick made Di Marzio [what he is today].....

Long ago,  Brooklyn's Bishop DiMarzio promised a fuller explanation related to the initial sex charges pending against him from his days back in McCarrick's New Jersey stomping grounds  ---  so far, NOTHING additional has come forth from the Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn [[[ SInce that time, in June 2020, another young man has made a separate complaint against Bishop DiMarzio, alleging sexual abuse while DiMarzio was a priest in the Diocese of Newark, New Jersey ]]]

Now, some specific questions need to be asked of Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio  ---  like this  >>>  

Bishop DiMarzio did you ever spend any time at Cardinal McCarrick's beach house in Sea Girt ?  

Did you ever see any under-aged boys at Cardinal McCarrick's beach house in Sea Girt at any time ???   

Did you ever hear anything about anyone having sex with under-aged boys at Cardinal McCarrick's beach house in Sea Girt ?????

[[[ I'm sure Attorney Mitchell Garebedian,  the man representing both of Di Marzio's victims, will be asking some very similar questions about DIMArzio's possible connection to the Sea Girt house on the record in the two cases against DiMarzio (and whatever cases might follow) ]]]

According to key portions of a very timely NY Daily News account,  "....  Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick allegedly ran a depraved sex ring of underage boys at a beach house on the Jersey Shore... "  The specific allegation  "...  claims that in 1982 and 1983 [young boys as young as 14 years old] were taken on weekend overnight trips to a Sea Girt beach house....  [where]   McCarrick assigned sleeping arrangements, choosing his victims from the boys, seminarians and clerics present at the beach house....”   (See  "Ousted Cardinal McCarrick ran sex ring at N.J. beach house: suit"  by Stephen Rex Brown,  7/22/2020,  NY Daily News/ New York [???]    [https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-cardinal-mccarrick-beach-house-sex-ring-suit-20200722-5n6kcz4aczbt5b2yrjuwpfkmyi-story.html]).

The article by Stephen Rex Brown went on to add that  "The new suit is not the first to reference the beach house....  In an interview with ["Slate"] last year, McCarrick said he believed his accusers had been manipulated by his 'enemies' to come up with similar stories involving abuse on the Shore....  'I’m not as bad as they paint me. I do not believe that I did the things that they accused me of,'  he said...."

IT'S LONG PAST THE TIME FOR DI MARZIO TO OWN UP TO HIS PART IN ALL OF THIS.....  NOT HIDE BEHIND HIS LAWYERS AND MENDACIOUS CLAIMS ABOUT HIS SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

Back when Bishop DiMarzio made public statements related to the first charged incidents of sexual abuse, he promised a fuller explanation would be forthcoming shortly.  ---  Almost eight months have passed  and there has been no such fuller explanation,  only the usual BS about all the good that he has done.  What it really looks like is that our boy, Bishop "Nicky Mars," has lawyered-up big time, and left all of his "explaining" up to his crisis managers.....

Running away from the violence that they caused

By refusing to own her part in the Brooklyn Bridge violence,  Nicole Malliotakis is trying an old trick that worked for Josef Stalin for so many years  ---  just chuck it into the  >>> MEMORY HOLE <<<

The article posted on Nicole Malliotakis' Campaign website describing her part in the   >>> The Battle of Brooklyn Bridge <<<  couldn't possibly be more underhanded and deceitful; in fact, it is a page taken out of the Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbel's  >>> BIG LIE <<<  playbook

Here is Nicole's take on what she thought YOU should know about what happened last Wednesday     >>>   and  this is verbatim  [but without imbedded video or photos]    >>>

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NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS

MALLIOTAKIS JOINS MARCH ACROSS BROOKLYN BRIDGE WITH CLERGY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

BY TEAM NICOLE ON JUL 15, 2020

Nicole Malliotakis

@NMalliotakis

About to kick off the Clergy and Law Enforcement Power of Prayer March from Camden [sic] Plaza #Brooklyn to #NYC City Hall to end gun violence and restore law and order.

[Video of speeches by various participants  ---  with deposed former State Senator Marty Golden looking on silently]

....   Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis joined with clergy, law enforcement and the public in a march across the Brooklyn Bridge to New York’s City Hall on Wednesday morning, calling for an end to gun violence and in support of of the NYPD.

Watch Assemblywoman Malliotakis discussing the march with Bishop Gerald Seabrook of the Rehobat Cathedral and President Ed Mullins of the NYPD-Sergeants Benevolent Association:

Also joining the march were Bishop Albert Jamieson of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Bishop Eric Figueroa of the New Life Tabernacle and Bishop Dr. Ismael Claudio of the Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ.

[Picture collage including five (5) photos showing only peaceful activities]....

                 STAND WITH            NICOLE

(See  "Malliotakis Joins March Across Brooklyn Bridge..." by Team Nicole, 7/15/2020   [https://nicolemalliotakis.com/malliotakis-joins-march-across-brooklyn-bridge-with-clergy-and-law-enforcement-in-call-to-end-gun-violence-and-in-support-of-the-nypd/])
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THE PART THAT IS  >>>  NICOLE'S "BIG LIE" & "MEMORY HOLE" MOMENT <<<

It is positively Orwellian what is NOT SHOWN OR EVEN MENTIONED by Nicole Malliotakis and her campaign flacks.   That is the part about all of the police activity and demonstrator violence on the Brooklyn Bridge, which resulted in the whole thing's becoming national news on Wednesday evening.  FYI  ---  that was the part of   >>> Nicole's and Marty Golden's <<<   march that resulted in significant injuries to several police officers, including the top uniformed command officer in the NYPD, and another national humiliation for the New York City police force on TV and in the rest of the national media   ---  along with several arrests of counter-demonstrators and the subsequent denunciation of the police actions by an organizer of the march, which Nicole was touting, and Malliotakis and Golden were part of.....

Demonstrations are NOT Discussions, Protests are NOT Probitive, and Repression is NOT Restorative

It's been a week since the ugly confrontations in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights between pro-police types and their political allies,  and #BLM types and their allies  ---  so far nothing good has come of it, but a lot of bad has.....

In our present polity, a chasm now separates Democrats from Republicans, and conservatives from old line liberals and contemporary progressives  ---  radicals have been the beneficiaries;  and they are emergent

None of this has helped the community at large  ---  nor is it likely to do so

None of this helped the police in the performance of their necessary duties and functions  ---  nor is it likely to do so

Marty Golden's demagoguery of one week past contained assertions that struck me as being more akin to Mayor de Blasio's proposals for future NYPD funding than I would have thought possible.....   I particularly refer to a portion of the now-rejected State Senator's hectoring of the crowd near the 68th Precinct house,  wherein Golden,  who was masked like the bandit that he is, listed a series of recognizable and essential institutions within the Precinct and throughout the city as a whole.  With every mention of a revered and necessary vehicle of public service, the crowd shouted,  "NYPD !!!"   

There's no need to quibble about the the intentions of the silver haired bandito,  what his words and the repeated responses of the crowd of NYPD supporters revealed were some of the places from which past police funding had been diverted over the last couple of decades  ---  often at the urging of first Councilman and later State Senator Martin Golden.

In any case,  Marty Golden's list would be a good place to target the one billion dollars that some maintain is being "defunded"  from the NYPD.  At very least it should be part of the discussion.

As for the efficacy of the pro-police demonstrations  ---  look at the neighborhoods that are now pushing back against the conduct of more demonstrations in or around their borders.....  It's quite interesting that the delay of the Marine Park demonstration was attributed to its being too hot to proceed..... "Interesting," but of no consequence,  because such demonstrations are not proof of anything material or relevant to anything or in any way.

Underlying all of this posturing by the likes of Marty Golden, and this year's GOP candidates Nicole Malliotakis and Vito Bruno is the presumption that repression of the perceived anti-police activists is the way to go. Unfortunately, that ignores the lessons of history  ---  in particular, the lessons of the French and Russian Revolutions;  or the antipodal reactive German revolution that brought the Nazi's to power.....  

In each instance, the failed old order attempted repression and only added to the strength of the various forces of the revolution. And ultimately, that led to the even greater onslaught against the social order  ---  the revolution inside the revolution,  which is the true destroyer of things past  the cultural revolution.

Instead, look at those moments in U.S., British and French history where social unrest led to accommodations and reforms that repeatedly recreated each of those countries and brought them into the modern world.  That is the part of "nation building" that is too often ignored  --- the need for constant renewal and renovation  ---  that is how our local communities and the nation as a whole will be restored.

Marty Golden. Nicole Malliotakis and Vito Bruno again involved in a violent confrontation --- this time on the Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn GOP's strategy of  "Look at me -- look at me !!!" by its leading politicians  --- Marty Golden, Nicole Malliotakis and Vito Bruno ---  has directly led to several injured police officers attempting to clear away protesters previously encamped on the Brooklyn Bridge

How many times is the same kind of badly planned and poorly executed incendiary provocation going to be tried as a "push back" against  #Black Lives Matter  ---  not only is this ineffective,  it is counterproductive.....

Bloody cops, including a senior command officer, only makes the ATIFA-BLM agitators look stronger to their followers, the public at large, and even to many government officials

Who in the newly merged Brooklyn Conservative-Republican Party will defend today's fiasco,  which is part of tonight's national TV news broadcasts ???

"Joint Statement" * by the Brooklyn GOP and the Conservative Party --- Just think about those two words, "Joint Statement"

When he was Brooklyn GOP County Chairman,  Craig Eaton would often describe his opponents, adversaries and/or enemies as  >>>  "PATHETIC" <<<

When he was Brooklyn GOP County Chairman,  Robert DiCarlo would often describe his opponents, adversaries and/or enemies as  >>>  "PYGMIES" <<<

Now that the Brooklyn GOP County Chairman is Ted Ghorra, there are no worthwhile descriptions of his opponents, adversaries and/or enemies.....

Instead, we get the "Full Monty" treatment of something called a "Joint Statement"*  ---  and I do mean the use of the term "Full Monty" as in "The emperor has no clothes"

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* The full title of the "Joint Statement" is as follows:  "Joint Statement...  Brooklyn Republican & Conservative Parties...  Concerning Past Weekend's Events in Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge and Elsewhere"

I wish I had a bucket of puke to throw on these guys myself.....

So this is the way the world ends...  not with a bang but with a whimper.....

In one fell swoop,  we have the Brooklyn Republican Party signing itself over to the Conservative Party --- lock, stock and barrel;  and without missing a beat,  the newly merged Conservative-Republicans throw in the towel once and for all,  after the fiasco of dueling  "BLM<->BLM" demonstrations over this weekend.

Make no mistake, this "Joint Statement" is nothing but a sugar-coated "Mea Culpa":  "Oh, please - please - please,  forgive us we were only trying to do something good and nice and warm and yummy  ---  NOT BRING CONFRONTATIONS,  RIOTS AND MAYHEM RIGHT UP TO YOUR FRONT DOORS ALL AROUND BAY RIDGE, DYKER HEIGHTS  AND ELSEWHERE.....

According to the "Joint Statement"  >>>  Don't believe what you saw and heard for yourself, either in person or on video;  or what might have gotten from what was reported on almost every news outlet, including Fox News and the NY Post  >>>  the Conservative-Republicans weren't responsible even though they organized what was supposed to be the main event.  >>>  First off, things really weren't as bad as people said, ot was pretty much mostly peaceful and orderly, sort of.....   >>>  All the bad stuff was done by somebody else  [maybe, Marty Golden looked like he was instigating things,  but forget about that too ]  ---  the Conservative-Republicans pro-cops were nothing but victims here  >>>  nasty people said nasty things to us,  and were throwing stuff like puke at us  >>>  so we HAD to defend ourselves [when the cops wouldn't defend us the way that we wanted ].....

Don't believe me, see for yourself.  The so-called "Joint Statement" follows below.....
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Joint Statement
Brooklyn Republican & Conservative Parties
Concerning Past Weekend's Events in Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge and Elsewhere

This past weekend’s rallies and protests in Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge (and in other parts of our city) saw both the best and the worst of our shared civic life. Given some of the heated rhetoric and some mistruths being dispersed by others, including certain of our local elected officials, we thought it very important to share the facts surrounding events this past weekend without political spin and without partisan rancor.

Recent events - citywide, statewide, and nationally - have pushed discussions about police procedures and accountability to the forefront of news. Debate is always healthy and, without question, there is a universal desire for improvement in all community relations.
Sadly, voices supporting police - and in opposition to what some consider attacks on common sense public safety policies - are wrongfully being labeled hateful and regressive by those who simply do not agree.

The fact is that those who organized and/or marched in support of first responders were of very diverse religious backgrounds, political backgrounds, races, genders, ages, including clergy, accountants, lawyers, fireman, teachers, community volunteers, coaches, grandmothers and grandfathers, small business owners, car service drivers, medical professionals and more. In fact, one of the two rallies was principally organized by middle eastern business owners who wanted to show their support to the NYPD and who sought broader support. Yet, elected officials, their staff and others throw blanket and untrue disparaging statements around as if their words do not matter. Simply stated, it matters and this is wrong, especially against your own constituents solely because you disagree on certain issues.
Regarding Saturday's rally, we denounce - plainly and strongly - any hateful language that came from the few (who had no connection to the event organizers) who had responded to the counter protesters. It was unacceptable and we categorically denounce anything like that.

Conversely, we call on our local elected officials, and selected members of their staff, to unconditionally make an unqualified apology for and denouncement of those labeling thousands of their constituents, as racist. They should know and act better than that, as it could not be further from the truth. Additionally, they need to unequivocally and immediately denounce the counter-protesters not only for their of the words - but the much worse vile actions that were taken by them against those participating in the support of the NYPD, which included such action by those who: (1) threw buckets of body fluids (including vomit) onto those marching in support of police - an especially vile act considering the current public health crisis; (2) physically assaulted those marching in support of police, including women with children; (3) threw eggs, rocks, bricks and shot paintballs at otherwise peaceful marchers, and (4) made crude & blanket disparagements of South Brooklyn neighborhoods.

Much of the coverage of these events did not include many of the above occurrences, which is unfortunate. Again, we call for civility and a recognition for diversity of views. The largely one-sided viewpoint and instigation needs to stop for the sake of all our communities - now. For example, no one in these communities organized simultaneous counter-protests against, e.g., those burning the flag, calling for the destruction of America and our law enforcement community - as hateful as that actually is.

All families, children, grandchildren, friends and neighbors across all communities deserve much better than they are getting. We do not and should not pick our friends solely by their political viewpoints, and for our electeds and their staff to call it divisive to show one's support of our law enforcement, their city and country is entirely unacceptable. Rather, the rallies were a call for support for one of the most diverse police forces in the country, who by and large do an outstanding job in the face of a variety of challenges, and whose abolition or further curtailment will no doubt lead to much higher crime rates - as we are already seeing. Crimes and crime rates directly affect people of all backgrounds, they are not just statistics.

We want to see all communities have safe streets, safe parks and playgrounds, more school choice, better quality of life, lower taxes, fares, tolls, a more affordable city, more friendly business environment for small and bigger businesses alike, better and more equal support of all teachers and educators (whether they are in a public, private or religious school system) and much more.

Call it as you like, but we the people largely live, work and play peacefully and quietly together. Let's improve on that and share ideas - not demonize, agree to disagree - not disparage, allow assembly and freedom of thought - not trying to quiet those around with whom you may disagree. We can agree to disagree on issues, absolutely, but to disparage so many who give endlessly and tirelessly for their communities and all people of all backgrounds is wholly unacceptable.

Thank you

Look at that  >>> UNSIGNED <<<   

What a bunch of chicken shit  ---  these new Conservative-Republican guys are truly  "PATHETIC PYGMIES"  ---  they need to be covered in puke and piss and shit.....  Wait a minute, they just did that to themselves with their "Joint Statement"

What is Marty Golden doing --- inciting a riot --- or just being a crazy old cop who doesn't get what's going on anymore ???

 
So far none of the news coverage has focused on what Marty Golden's role in the Bay Ridge pro-police demonstrations actually was  ---   or the real reason why he was doing it  ---  with Marty there is always the ulterior purpose.....

However, it was clear that Marty was there in the second rank egging on the "first responders" in the front row  ---  after all, for certain purposes Marty is just one pathetic disabled mess because of his OTJ Injury.....

What is interesting is that many of the folks on the Golden side of the "Thin Blue Line" were the unruly trouble-makers when the confrontations flared between the pro-coppers and the very well disciplined folks from "Black Lives Matter"

Just so people understand, the BLM folks will be back  ---  and there will be more of them next time, maybe lots more  ---  Marty's antics have jeopardized all his neighbors in the blocks just north of Fort Hamilton High School  ---  how much police protection will they get when BLM comes to demonstrate on Marty's block in front of Marty's house ???   Will Marty come out to stop them when they try to do a BLM "Street Mural" in yellow paint in front of 85 80th Street  ---  and what will happen to anybody among Marty's neighbors on 80th Street, Narrows Avenue or Harbor View Terrace that dares to try to defend themselves when the cops won't defend them ?????

I just can't wait to hear the pathetic spin the Brooklyn GOPers and the Kassar-istas try to put on this one.  There just ain't enough lipstick to make this pig look good.

Let me be clear about this, today's Bay Ridge pro-cop demonstration was a bad idea, badly executed.....  What next, torchlight parades ???

Guerrilla warfare, folks, guerrilla warfare !!!  ---  Learn about it, be ready for it.


 

The Brooklyn GOP needs to plan for >>> "A Life on the LAM+B"

As in  "The Brooklyn GOP needs to get  a  'LIFE AFTER MARTY'  plus develop a  'PLAN B' "  equals (=) "LAM+B"


Even though the common use of "lam"  in American slang implies running away;  it can also mean "going to ground" or hiding


We are entering a phase of guerrilla warfare  ---  being greatly outnumbered and short of real resources  ---  What to do ?  What to do ???  What to do ?????

Now, let's have a show of hands.  ---   Who believes that Ted Ghorra can be an inspiring guerrilla leader ?   

Who thinks that he has the brains to be even a passable tactical planner ???  

Who thinks that he has the slightest clue what a realistic strategic goal for the Brooklyn GOP might be ?????

Grasshopper, once you have correctly answered those three easy questions, I will ask of you something that is far more difficult.....

The Left's Media Mob and Woke Folk Everywhere are Shutting Down Debate by Calling it "Hate"

Brian Selter has made himself the defender of "all of us"  >>>  "victims" of  Tucker Carlson's "toxicity" every night

Selter's attack on Tucker Carlson  >>> but mostly what Carlson says <<<  shows that the increasingly radicalized Democrats  ---  and their strongest supporters in the media  ---  don't want any push-back 

Selter doesn't want any  >>>  "NASTY DEBATE ABOUT HATING AMERICA" <<<   led by Tucker Carlson or any other cable news host

Meanwhile, let's take a closer look at a hateful pit bull of the mainstream Democrat Party  >>> TAMMY DUCKWORTH <<<  now a U.S. Senator, and presently short-listed for VP on a Biden ticket  ---  why wouldn't any right thinking American think that she might very well be a HARDCORE HATER OF AMERICA based on some of what she has said and done

Selter, the host of CNN's “Reliable Sources” directly attacked Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson on Wednesday evening, during an appearance on another CNN show“CNN Tonight.”  The thrust of Selter's barbs at Tucker Carlson were focused on Tucker's having criticized Illinois  Democrat Senator Tammy Duckworth, who had stated she was open to considering the tearing down of statues of George Washington under certain conditions.

Stelter said that, when Carlson calls out Tammy Duckworth and other Democrats for being destroyers of history and haters of America, he makes all of us victims.  And this is exactly how he said it  ---  "“Millions of people watch this, every night, watch this toxicity. He and Trump are aligned. They are stoking this divide. You know, what Tucker does, Don [CNN's Don Lemon], is he says he’s the victim. He’s the victim of people who are trying to stomp out his free speech. But the real victims are all of us. Whenever you get into this nasty debate about hating America, it should be beneath any cable news host.”

AND AS FOR DUCKWORTH

Both in the Obama Administration and during her time in the U..S. Senate,  Tammy Duckworth has used her status as a disabled combat veteran to shield herself from repeated instances of critical scrutiny for her lack of concern over the plight of other veterans, opposition to a variety of pro-military initiatives and appropriations and an overly apologetic approach to U.S. foreign policy.....  

It's hardly proof that TAMMY DUCKWORTH actually might HATE AMERICA,  as Tucker Carlson suggests, because she is willing to consider the removal of monuments to Geiorge Washington.  However, the issues it raises are certainly worthy of deeper scrutiny and a healthy debate as to whether it isn't possible that Senator and wounded warrior Tammy Duckworth might really and truly hate America.....

It looks like only one of the 2017 GOP contenders has chosen to follow my advice

Based on his social media lately,  it's clear that John Quaglione has decided that there is no future in, with, and for the Republican Party in Brooklyn

To refer to Q's internet comments as tepid is to suggest that some of his prior postings had a peppery piquancy that was actually missing even when he was trying to be politically relevant 

One can hardly blame the lad  ---  given all the carnage in 2018, and with a very important election upcoming,  the Brooklyn GOP team for 2020, which nominally includes Q,  looks like it is about to enter this race with no gas in its tank

What I don't think Quags is doing, though, is just folding up his tent and heading to higher ground; which I certainly believe would be the wiser course for Q and all Brooklyn Republicans..

Maybe, his job for the Church requires him to pray for miracles instead of engaging in secular pursuits;  unfortunately,  the Brooklyn Republican Party needs more than miracles.....

Triumphal Trump Stands Tall Among America's Giant Presidents At Mount Rushmore

WANTED !

EH !!!

MAYBE, NOT SO WANTED !!!!!

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LOVED !

EH !!!

MAYBE,  NOT SO LOVED !!!!!

So what if it's a little off-center.....   He has a forehead that has its own horizon.....  That's a quality that cannot be quantified.

The picture is telling us a story about this man  ---  the sun is setting, but that only means  ---  it's his time to shine.

I GIVE YOU  >>>  VITO BRUNO  >>>  A REPUBLICAN-CONSERVATIVE  >>>  FOR THE NEW YORK STATE SENATE

Joe Ferris, long-time Democrat activist, once from Park Slope and Windsor Terrace, dies of COVID-19

Joseph Ferris, who served in the New York State Assembly from 1975 to 1984, died June 20th from COVID-19, according to his son Joseph Ferris Jr.   ---   Joe was 85 years of age when he passed.

Assemblyman Ferris was a Reform Democrat, who represented a district, then called the 51st A.D. in Brooklyn, that spanned Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Kensington, Sunset Park, and Borough Park, where he garnered a reputation as a fierce advocate against policies like "redlining" by banks and insurers — where certain Brooklyn communities were systematically denied equal treatment from some governmental and most private sector financial and insurance sources.

Joe Ferris got his beginnings in political activism during his days in Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement.....

After a protracted battle with the Regular Democratic Party machine in Park Slope, Joe took on the popular, populist Republican incumbent Vin  Riccio, whom he finally defeated in the post-Watergate election of 1974.

Some, including many Republicans, say that Joe was essentially decent and honest.  Others focus on the fact that he was open in his fight for racial justice, especially within his own district. However, still others, including a few fellow Democrat reformers and his most conservative opponents, pointed out that the principal beneficiaries of most of Joe Ferris' efforts were newcomer white liberal Park Slope gentrifiers, who were very like Joe Ferris himself.  

Not known by many of his political supporters, Joe owned multiple properties whose values went through the roof while their "friend,"  Mr. Ferris, was in the assembly pushing most of the white liberal agenda in Albany, while pushing the likes of Citibank and Brooklyn Union Gas to directly "invest" in the "revival" of Park Slope back home.