Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.
New York City Mayor (and one-time Democratic presidential candidate) Bill DeBlasio’s ongoing feud with the city’s Hassidic community got even more heated, as the Parks Department was caught on tape welding playground gates shut.
According to the New York Post, the gates were welded closed after residents repeatedly cut the locks to allow their children to play, in violation of closure orders put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus:
The Parks Department…said that welding was a short-term fix after locks had been repeatedly busted — at least 25 times in the span of just a few weeks — and that the playground would go back to using locks Monday afternoon.
“At this playground, a temporary measure was used to shut the playground after it was breached,” said spokeswoman Anessa Hodgson in a statement. “It will be unwelded today and replaced with a lock.”
But within hours, dozens of Hasidic locals crowded together — most without masks — to cheer as three men snipped open one of the gates with bolt cutters, a video tweeted by @HQSatmar shows.
Residents complained their kid’s playground had been unfairly kept closed, even as the city allowed adults to congregate in parks, often ignoring social distancing measures.
Some also said the city was turning a blind eye to massive street protests even as it was welding the playground gates closed:
“You have tens of thousands of people marching with no social distancing and it feels like a tale of two cities,” [Gary Schlesinger] said. “Parents of kids which are the majority of people who live in this community are very angry about this because you are talking about large families confined to small apartments for weeks and weeks. The mayor’s office should be cognizant of this, but to him it’s the complete opposite.”
Image Credit: By Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:05, 29 August 2014 (UTC) (Broadway Crowds) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Too bad the city doesn’t fix the potholes 25 times in 2 weeks. NY is lucky if they get fixed yearly. And … this depicts something bad about the intent of NY’s administrators.
i’m all out of sympathy for them as they’re getting exactly what they voted for!
I’ve no use for DiBLAHBLAH BUT I’d submit that the dimmest wits are those who voted for him.
deBlahBlah-O needs to be in a deep hole without a communications device to drive himself madder.
You should get Out of NYC!!! It is Hell on Earth!! Vote Straight GOP (Except Rinos) November 2020!!!
Newyorkers are doomed
DOOMED!
ARE YOU NEW YORKERS READY TO DUMP THE LOUSY MAYOR YOU HAVE,OR WILL YOU JUST FORGET AND RE ELECT THE BASTARD AGAIN WHEN HE RUNS FOR RE ELECTION? IF YOU RE ELECT,THEN YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU GET. X NEW YORKER
Cut Hole in the Fence! What a bunch of BS from the Losers at City Hall, and this whole Virus Lockdown has been nothing but a Scam to Wield Power!
LOL HA HA HA servers the voters of that state right for voting a democrat in office. Now live with it.
GET RID OF DEBLASIO!!!
Oh Oh ! Now you have pissed off the Jews! There will be hell to pay for that!
De Blasio, prepare for a big problem now that you have stepped on the Jewish people.
Punishing our children is so fu.king low…the next thing you know they will be murdering babies……
They are murdering babies. What do you think planned parent hood is about funded by tax dollars that they don’t deserve.
DeBlasio is actually half German. His father ‘s name is Wilhelm
but this creepy liberal progressive mayor uses his mother’s maiden name, which is where DeBlasio originates from! And he worked for the corrupt Clintons years ago! Facts are stubborn things.
The real solution to all of our problems is in the universities. That is where young minds are corrupted. All universities should be shut down and higher education should be done at home on computer. The buildings at the universities should be converted to homeless shelters or other useful purposes. When the communist professors get your children and force them to accept the leftist lunacy, that’s where they sell their souls to Satan and they end up in the streets committing crimes fostered by the democrat party. Take your children out of universities. That piece of paper they get at the end is not worth losing their country and their souls.
The only way to fix this kind of crap, vote them out. People have been voting these people in over and over again because of their political affiliation. If will never change until we start voting for whoever we think will do the best job, whether they are Democrat or Republican.
You have to treat everybody the same way, or whatever you do will fail. Hear that, DiBlasio?
For generations Jews in this Country have supported the racist democrats. Now one that they supported and helped elect has turned on them and they are angry. It is high time for them to see that they have been used. PRESIDENT TRUMP has done more to recognize the Jews than any President since President Truman did in 1948 by recognizing Israel as a Country against the advice of all of his democratic advisors. Wake up people PRESIDENT TRUMP is the most supportive individual non-Jew in the world.