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There was no dust on Gov. Cuomo’s brogans last week when a self-described crazy man drove into a crowd at Times Square, killing one and scattering the injured all over the pavement.
“He was there like Batman,” one cop told The Post. “He might as well have taken off his shirt and gone around investigating.” No surprise that a tweeted photo of the great man in action followed within minutes.
But, hey, why not? It could have been a terror attack, instead of an alleged drunk-drugged-whatever lunatic looking for, as he himself put it, “help.”
And leaders lead, after all. Where more appropriate a place for New York’s First Citizen to be than on the scene of a potential terrorist attack — even as the ambulances were arriving.
On the other hand. Cuomo has long confused self-promotion with governance, so none of this should surprise. But it certainly underscores the inexplicable failure of gubernatorial leadership in the face New York City’s latest official affront to common decency.
That would be the announced presence of a convicted, and by all accounts unrepentant, terrorist — FALN mastermind Oscar López Rivera — at the head of the 2017 Puerto Rican Heritage parade. (He’ll be the happening’s “First National Hero,” don’t you know.)
Thank City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito for that. It apparently was her idea. Also, Mayor de Blasio. The pair is famous for playing kissy-face with Marxist thugs, so Rivera is right up their dark alley.
But the question of the moment — made more urgent by Monday night’s slaughter in the UK — is whether Cuomo will confer his own imprimatur on City Hall’s shameful embrace of political violence.
That is, will Cuomo be with the marchers on June 11? Or will he not be?
Asked directly last week, he dithered. “This is something that I’m reviewing right now. I just heard about it, so I’m going to look at the situation.” (An inquiry Tuesday was unavailing.)
This is, of course, absurd. The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, or FALN, has been a part of New York’s political consciousness since at least 1974 — when its bombs maimed cops at One Police Plaza, followed a month later by the dynamite-bombing of iconic Fraunces Tavern that murdered four and injured 43.
The notion that rendering honor to one of the gang’s founders is something that requires a “review” is absurd. That, plus shameful.
So, as things stand, the only thing Cuomo and de Blasio see eye-to-eye on is marching with Oscar López Rivera on June 11.
http://nypost.com/2017/05/23/even-after-manchester-cuomos-dodging-on-marching-to-honor-a-terrorist/
“He was there like Batman,” one cop told The Post. “He might as well have taken off his shirt and gone around investigating.” No surprise that a tweeted photo of the great man in action followed within minutes.
But, hey, why not? It could have been a terror attack, instead of an alleged drunk-drugged-whatever lunatic looking for, as he himself put it, “help.”
And leaders lead, after all. Where more appropriate a place for New York’s First Citizen to be than on the scene of a potential terrorist attack — even as the ambulances were arriving.
On the other hand. Cuomo has long confused self-promotion with governance, so none of this should surprise. But it certainly underscores the inexplicable failure of gubernatorial leadership in the face New York City’s latest official affront to common decency.
That would be the announced presence of a convicted, and by all accounts unrepentant, terrorist — FALN mastermind Oscar López Rivera — at the head of the 2017 Puerto Rican Heritage parade. (He’ll be the happening’s “First National Hero,” don’t you know.)
Thank City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito for that. It apparently was her idea. Also, Mayor de Blasio. The pair is famous for playing kissy-face with Marxist thugs, so Rivera is right up their dark alley.
But the question of the moment — made more urgent by Monday night’s slaughter in the UK — is whether Cuomo will confer his own imprimatur on City Hall’s shameful embrace of political violence.
That is, will Cuomo be with the marchers on June 11? Or will he not be?
Asked directly last week, he dithered. “This is something that I’m reviewing right now. I just heard about it, so I’m going to look at the situation.” (An inquiry Tuesday was unavailing.)
This is, of course, absurd. The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, or FALN, has been a part of New York’s political consciousness since at least 1974 — when its bombs maimed cops at One Police Plaza, followed a month later by the dynamite-bombing of iconic Fraunces Tavern that murdered four and injured 43.
The notion that rendering honor to one of the gang’s founders is something that requires a “review” is absurd. That, plus shameful.
So, as things stand, the only thing Cuomo and de Blasio see eye-to-eye on is marching with Oscar López Rivera on June 11.
http://nypost.com/2017/05/23/even-after-manchester-cuomos-dodging-on-marching-to-honor-a-terrorist/
