Here is a tweet from late April in response to hundreds gathering to mourn a popular Hasidic rabbi.
My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period.— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) April 29, 2020
Then just this past week, de Blasio ordered officials to weld shut the gates to Middleton Playground, which is a popular spot for Jewish children. This was especially egregious when you consider that just the day before NYC was the site of a large "Black Trans Lives Matter" rally, a protest where there wasn't a heckuva lot of social distancing happening. Hell, de Blasio himself has been photographed at BLM rallies while, at times, not wearing a mask.
Not surprisingly, members of the Jewish community finally had enough.
After months of targeted harassment of the Jewish population by the anti-Semitic mayor of the city, he’s finally receiving some push back. (On Monday), Orthodox Jews took bolt cutters to the locks put on the parks, allowing their kids to go play as they should have been allowed to all along.
I’ve yet to hear any left-winger articulate a viable excuse for de Blasio’s actions. That leaves the only answer being that he’s just anti-Semitic. Why else allow these black lives matter protests, including one centering on transgenders yesterday, while at the same time pretending that Jewish kids playing is dangerous?
But many of us warned the precedents being set by the original lock downs were dangerous. You had liberals one inch of power and they will take a mile. None of them care about equality under the law. They only care about their political wants. Yes, the courts could eventually strike what de Blasio is doing down, but it’s an uphill slog. You need to gain standing, then it’s months of litigation to wade through. The right answer was never anointing politicians to make these decisions in the first place. Far too many were short-sighted in their initial support.
To read this makes it all the more amusing when hearing fervent anti Trump people calling themselves a "resistance." Sorry, but "owning" people on Twitter while ensconced in a coffee shop is bean bag compared to a centuries-long oppressed religion defying a large city tyrannical mayor.
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