Nightmare in New York

[mystery-ak]

July 10, 2020
Nightmare in New York
By Eric Utter

Escape from New York. Now. If you can. That seems to be the thinking of hundreds of thousands of Big Apple denizens as the city, recently one of the safest in the world, devolves into a dystopian hell at the hands of demented progressives.       

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his former police commissioners such as Bernard Kerik, who headed up the NYPD force from 2000-2001 and directed the police response to 9/11, can only watch and weep as the city they had so successfully cleaned up rapidly descends into chaos and carnage. This Nightmare in New York is brought to you courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and a cast of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters, anarchists and street thugs. The once vibrant city is turning into a virtual no-go zone of looted shops, shuttered store windows and skyrocketing murder rates. The number of shooting victims is up 51% this year so far, and that tragic trend is accelerating. In June of this year there were 250 shootings, as opposed to 97 in June of 2019.

New York was already reeling from the highest coronavirus death toll in the (formerly) United States, due in large part to Gov. Cuomo approving the transfer of thousands of recovering COVID-19 patients to nursing homes at the height of the pandemic. Then the rioting began, and Mayor de Blasio’s response was to shame cops and propose cutting his city’s police department budget by more than one billion dollars. (That’s one thousand million for those of you who were educated in the city’s public schools.)

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[rangerrebew]

It doesn't matter in termsof re-election what they do.  That is because, to a hard core communist, communism is more of a religion than an ideology and worshiped with the same fervor as Islam.  As is always the case, people like Cuomo and de Blasio will live high off the hog while citizens struggle.

[Smokin Joe]

So where are a half million New York City dwellers going (besides elsewhere)? Not that I blame them, but if it has taken them this long to leave, their tolerance for liberal rubbish far exceeds my own. I don't want people for neighbors who might insist on even a watered down version of they tyranny they have been subjected to, nor am I confident that they are prepared psychologically or intellectually, not to mention in terms of raw skill sets to live with the degree of freedom many of us here desire.

Oh well, it could be a teaching opportunity. (No, you don't start a chainsaw with the bar back between your legs....)