Letters to the Editor 10.31.24
To the Letters Editor :
Re : “Trump Rally Slated For MSG Stirs Controversy” October 24-30, 2024.
Sen. Hoylman-Sigal displays a truly alarming ignorance of the legacy of First Amendment freedom of speech in his woke-ist rant linking the October 27 MSG Trump rally to the infamous 1939 pro-Nazi MSG rally. His vapid statement labeling MSG’s permit a “ disastrous decision” and a “ threat to public safety“, and demanding a cancellation of the event, is pure partisan bluster unsupported by solid argument on the merits of any kind or sort. It is indeed “an insidious false equivalency, seeking to abrogate free expression.”
In larger context, it is part-and-parcel of a tragic, indeed ironic anti-democratic poison which has taken hold of the Democratic Party over the course of the last generation and led many, including Yours Truly, to abandon its ranks in favor of the fresh air provided by the label “independent.”
Further, D’s ideological turn for the worse, which Ms. Murakhver poignantly links to good-old Soviet repression, may be ground enough to cost the party the coming election. Editor’s Note: Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but it should be noted that it is not strictly Democrats such as State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal who are sounding an alarm. In recent days, two high ranking former Trump aids have come out against the former president. Retired General USMC Mark Miley, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is quoted in a new book by Bob Woodward that Trump is “fascist to the core. Retired four star USMC General John Kelly said in a recent interview with the New York Times that Trump fits the definition of fascism. “Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” he told The Times.
Howard Charles Yourow, New York City
Editor’s Note: Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but it should be noted that it is not strictly Democrats such as State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal who are sounding an alarm. In recent days, two high ranking former Trump aids have come out against the former president. Retired US Army four star general Mark Miley, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is quoted in a new book by Bob Woodward that Trump is “fascist to the core.” Retired four star USMC General John Kelly said in a recent interview with the New York Times that Trump fits the definition of fascism. “Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” he told The Times.