This charade is a stain on our society’s values
Sayville, L.I.: The second dump of the Epstein information exhibits how far we’ve sunk as a rustic. These paperwork are within the possession of the U.S. Division of Justice and Lawyer Common Pam Bondi. There are redactions throughout, obscuring the names of these concerned. They haven’t come near enough redactions to guard victims — names, cellphone numbers, e mail addresses and nude images during which names and faces of potential victims could be recognized. The DOJ says that was a “technical or human error” and eliminated them, however that genie is out of the bottle. When you consider it was in error, you’re a idiot. I don’t see any errors outing any presumably culpable folks.
There are an estimated 1,000 victims. What number of who might have been contemplating coming ahead will accomplish that after this? It’s the total drive of the federal authorities bludgeoning lots of of victims of a number of sexual crimes. I don’t need to think about even 5% of People not wanting justice for the victims and prosecution of the perpetrators. Nonetheless, plainly 45% of People will sit idly by whereas the celebration they help is masking issues up and doing every thing in its immense energy to derail justice. Does that 45% not have daughters or wives, or any human decency?
We’re formally a police state. Disgrace isn’t a powerful sufficient phrase. I don’t suppose there’s a phrase sturdy sufficient for this. Ignominy? No, it’s far worse than that. Michael Hooker
Aider & abettor
East Meadow, L.I.: After witnessing Pam Bondi’s disgraceful antics through the Home Judiciary Committee’s listening to on the Epstein information, one reality turned clear: Bondi is President Trump’s Ghislaine Maxwell. Richard Skibins
The details stay
Bronx: To Voicer Charles T. Compton: The migrants who rape and/or homicide make up a minute a part of that group. The overwhelming majority of those that commit such crimes had been born right here. The criminals amongst them don’t justify the deportation of the overwhelming majority of migrants who commit no crimes whereas working laborious for poverty wages. Additionally, federal brokers seized Alex Pretti’s licensed gun that was not drawn, then held him down and shot him lifeless. That’s homicide, irrespective of the way you attempt to spin it. Richard Warren
An period price shedding
Manhattan: Re “Water-shed second” (editorial, Feb. 8): Out of doors eating is an efficient idea nevertheless it have to be accomplished in order that it really works and is smart. Enclosed buildings are a nasty thought. It was accomplished throughout COVID as a pandemic necessity. We had been social-distancing and attempting to remain alive! That is now not the case, and most of the people aren’t eating out in NYC within the fall and winter. Let’s get real looking. Eating places ought to be capable of apply to place tables, chairs and umbrellas on the sidewalk. Metropolis Council Speaker Julie Menin says she desires to restore the outside eating program. It have to be accomplished intelligently. If not, we’re going backwards! Carrie Tassa
Be freer
Manhattan: Mayor Mamdani suggests free bus rides for all through the five-week World Cup soccer event this summer season in New York. It appears he’s a little bit low-cost. I recommend free room and board for all at Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s residence; free first-class airfare to NYC for all on El Al airways; free cashmere fits for all at Bergdorf Goodman; free concert events performed by Leonard Bernstein at Carnegie Corridor; good climate on daily basis; free lectures by Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu on the historical past of the Center East in Central Park each night time, served with falafel, shawarma and Food regimen Coke — for free of charge, in fact — and I recommend that the mayor have his head examined. Priceless! Gil Lederman
Missed one
Bronx: Voicer John Macklin writes that the AP article on the dying of Mickey Lolich (“Lolich, Tiger hero of ’68 Sequence and ex-Met, dies at 85,” Feb. 5) ought to have included Lew Burdette’s efficiency, successful three video games within the 1957 World Sequence. However Macklin is fallacious. Apparently, he didn’t see that the article clearly states: “Since Lolich, solely Arizona’s Randy Johnson in 2001 has received three video games in a World Sequence.” The AP article can also be fallacious, nonetheless. Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto received three video games in final yr’s World Sequence. When you look earlier than Lolich, there are 9 pitchers who received three video games in a World Sequence since 1903, together with Bob Gibson in 1967. Bruce D. Campbell
Prolong a hand
Glendale: It’s extraordinarily uncommon that I agree with a Every day Information editorial (“Mamdani snubs Archbishop Hicks,” Feb. 9). Nonetheless, one of many mandatory secrets and techniques to turning into a superb or nice chief is communication. The editorial had nearly nothing to do with faith. It needed to do with reaching out to one of many many teams that might be dominated by Mayor Mamdani. If a frontrunner can’t talk, he’s doomed proper off the bat. Outreach is vital. To the critics: Catholics make up a big a part of town — supposedly, about half of the inhabitants. Mamdani confirmed management (and guts) when he made it a degree to fulfill with Trump on the White Home. Not wanting to fulfill with those that disagree with you’ll solely divide us additional. Thomas Murawski
Momentary glory
Manhattan: Inns, towers, artwork facilities, calls for for prepare stations and airports to hold his title — simply while you suppose there are not any limits to the self-importance of this man, Trump by no means fails to disappoint. Joseph Stalin, having climbed to the highest over a pile of our bodies the scale of which the world had by no means seen, had portraits, statues and even cities named after him. He needed his legacy to final ceaselessly. However as everyone knows, “ceaselessly” lasted about 20 years. De-Stalinization was fast and brutal, with historical past having the final say — a lesson assured to go unlearned. Louie Russo
Off his rocker
Penticton, British Columbia: Frequent American charity calls for that the American affected person — President Trump — be instantly eliminated and institutionalized. The Mad Monarch of Mar-a-Lago is ridiculed worldwide because the babbling idiot and face of Devil whose venom is lethal and far-reaching. But, best is concern of his dementia-wrapped energy. Joe Schwarz
Drop the T
Plainview, L.I.: The Trump-ordered Delight flag removing on the Stonewall Inn is not any shock given final February’s deletion of the “T” from “LGBTQ.” Due to this fact, the logical subsequent step can be to additionally delete that letter from his personal final title. And it’s not my doing that the phrase “rump” is outlined in a number of dictionaries as “rear finish,” “bottom,” “buttocks,” “the final or inferior half,” and even “ass.” Richard Siegelman
Free to fly it
Sunnyside: It was good to learn in regards to the Delight flag being put again in place on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument. Nonetheless, it was distressing to learn that some protesters “tried to tug down the American flag” and that a few of them additionally “chanted on the pols to yank down the American flag, too.” Don’t these protesters understand that homosexual and trans individuals are handled higher in America than anyplace else? John Francis Fox
