Anti-Israel protesters occupy Trump Tower, Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Anti-Israel demonstrators protesting inside Trump Tower in Midtown this week.
Why is it that liberal Democrats flip into petulant little infants after they don’t get their approach (“Detainee protest ‘a bust’ at Trump Tower,” March 14)?
They flip to protesting, though some seemingly have no concept what they’re even protesting about. And they’re usually those who resort to violence, as we’ve seen with the latest assaults on Tesla dealerships. Now President Trump’s Manhattan skyscraper is beneath assault.
When was the final time you noticed Republicans staging protests — not to mention ones that flip violent? Democrats all the time invoke the Jan. 6 riot as a result of it’s the one such episode they will dangle their hats on.
Rob Cerone
Manhattan
Sen. Bernie Sanders and his gang of lefty Dems love throwing round their new favourite phrase: “oligarch.”
I’d ask them: Who paid for all of the T-shirts and professionally manufactured indicators on the Trump Tower protest? The manufacturing values appeared suspiciously high, I would add.
So rich Americans are “oligarchs” in the event that they help the GOP, but when they back Democrats, they’re simply “modest party donors”? Talk about splitting hairs.
Sean P. Kelly
Farmingdale
The protesters made a massive mistake holding their unlawful gathering in a residential business facility. Trump might quickly be many million {dollars} richer after all of the civil fits are filed.
Robert Neglia
The Bronx
I disagree with the hypothesis that many (if not most) of the protesters have been from different nations, maybe right here illegally. To me, most appeared American — which is even more regarding.
Germany didn’t recruit people from outdoors Germany during the Nineteen Thirties, but there was nonetheless a Holocaust. The involvement of home protesters right this moment additional highlights the importance of the demonstration.
Chuck Levner
Woodmere
The NYPD ought to have made a stronger show of power with a view to get the protesters to depart.
These protesters have been trespassing. Those arrested ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Ron Heimer
Yuma, Ariz.
The Issue: Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten criticizing attainable cuts to the Department of Education.
Closing the Department of Education will lastly expose Randi Weingarten as a grifter screwing over taxpayers (“Randi’s Ridiculous Hogwash,” Editorial, March 13).
But it won’t be enough to stop waste. In my city, a vital quantity of my property tax goes to colleges. So whereas federal tax cuts are great, Democratic states will simply jack up taxes to cowl the shortfall. No matter how a lot we cut, they all the time appear to have a backup plan to keep the money flowing.
James Schwartz
Summit, NJ
Randi Weingarten has confirmed that retaining energy in public schooling comes on the expense of educating children.
If schooling was her prime precedence, Weingarten would embrace constitution colleges, punish truancy and raise tutorial requirements. Yet these points nonetheless plague our colleges.
Eileen Corr
Brewster, Mass.
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