Gambling in My Establishment?

I laughed hard when I read the comments of the lady, Ms. Sheila Sanchez, who walked by Whalen Park and was shocked to see men drinking tequila at noon time (Norwood News Vol. 32 No. 18). It reminded me of the scene from the classic movie “Casablanca” with Rick.

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Inspector Renault: I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Inspector Renault: Oh, thank you very much.

This classic scene from “Casablanca” perfectly describes this hypocrisy of politicians and neighborhood residents who feign blindness of what is standing directly in front of their eyes. It’s the Democratic party and their socialist leanings.

We won the City back during Mayor Rudy Guiliani’s zero tolerance policy to quality of life offenses. People went to jail for urinating in public, jumping turnstiles, smoking on buses, drinking alcohol in public and our neighborhood and our lives improved. Now the Corey Johnson-, AOC- and Melissa Mark-Viverito-types ended those criminal sanctions and look at the results. Please let Ms. Sanchez know who saw what she saw in Whalen Park, that was mild compared to what is coming down the road with these socialist Democrats, and don’t appear to be shocked like Inspector Renault in “Casablanca.”

Dennis Walker 

Norwood

Backing Gabbard

Edgar Cisneros (Letters to the Editor in the Sept. 12-25, 2019 issue) thinks Andrew Yang would be a good president because he wants to give every adult American $1,000 a month. Really? Would this include Jeff Bezos and Bill

Robert Press (July 4-17, 2019 Inquiring Photographer) thinks a ticket of Rep. Kamala Harris and Mayor Bill de Blasio would be good. As a prosecutor, Harris tried to keep an innocent man in prison on a legal
technicality, tried to suppress DNA evidence in the case of a man on death row, defended false confessions, perjury and withholding evidence. She also argued for keeping inmates in overcrowded prisons by saying the state needed their

De Blasio claims to be a progressive. But his record of giving labor contracts that don’t keep up with inflation and accelerating the decline of public housing and inner city public schools proves that claim to be a

Iraq war veteran, military reservist and U.S. Representative from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard is the best candidate. Her domestic views are similar to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. But she’s the only candidate strongly opposing interventionist U.S. foreign

She’s the one who pointed out that Syrian leader Bashar Assad is not our enemy. Most of the U.S.-supported rebels, which include Al-Queda and ISIS, are. She’s the one who spoke against U.S. attempts to overthrow the Venezuelan government. She’s the only one who, during a Democratic debate, called out Harris on her record as a prosecutor. That, like Gabbard in general, was ignored by the mainstream

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has bumped her from the next debate by claiming she has not reached the two percent support level in four “certified” polls. They don’t consider most of the 26 polls that have her at that level to be ”

So the same mainstream media and DNC that rigged the 2016 campaign to favor the horrific Hillary Clinton are at it again. The last thing they want is a president whose economic policies would help
most people and who would refuse to get people killed in wars the U.S. should not fight.

Richard Warren

Van Cortlandt Village

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