Elon Musk’s controversial gesture and more: Letters to the Editor — Jan. 26, 2025

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Heil hysteria

Both the near and immoderate Jewish leaders person expressed interest implicit an awkward motion made by Elon Musk during a infinitesimal of exhilaration (“Nazi Fetish,” PostOpinion, Jonathan Turley, Jan. 23).

Critics interpreted the salute arsenic an intentional depiction of a hateful Nazi gesture. However, this absorption seems politically motivated. The near continues to reel from the definitive nonaccomplishment of President Trump’s triumph and appears consenting to prehend immoderate accidental to undermine an medication focused connected carrying retired the volition of the people. This “salute” contention seems to beryllium the latest successful a bid of overblown reactions.

It is unfortunate that the aforesaid level of scrutiny was not directed toward the blatantly antisemitic mobs that disrupted assemblage campuses and streets conscionable a fewer months prior.

Anthony Bruno, Smithtown

NYPD AWOL

So it has travel to airy that immoderate NYPD vehicles had their GPS systems unplugged (“Losing way of cops,” Jan. 19).

Officers came and went and nary 1 knows what they were up to. It’s an astonishing enactment of imaginable criminality from those that expected to travel the law.

There are different ways to way a car: Type the sheet into the plate-reader web and presto. Let the subpoenas alert and get each of their telephone records to way their whereabouts. Shame connected them.

Mike Lapinga, Staten Island

Adams’ ICE stance

Hopefully Donald Trump showed Mayor Adams the doorway erstwhile the politician indicated helium wouldn’t capable to assistance the Feds successful removing transgression immigrants surviving present illegally (“Eric: Trump’s ICE is connected its ain successful Gotham,” Jan. 19).

All Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch are doing is utilizing a bogus instrumentality arsenic an excuse not to instrumentality enactment against these out-of-control thugs, who person brought mayhem crossed the city. President Trump is acrophobic astir the information of the American radical and helium volition find a mode to cleanable up the nation. In turn, it is clip for New Yorkers to get this politician retired of Gracie Mansion.

Nicholas Maffei, Yonkers

Big frozen apple

New York has been engulfed by a polar vortex, with temperatures dropping into the azygous digits and upwind chill factors good beneath zero (“Get acceptable for frozen Apple,” Jan. 20).

Just ideate if the Green New Deal zealots had their mode and the residents and businesses of the metropolis had nary recourse to heating oil, earthy state oregon ember — each fossil fuels which successful the eyes of the fanatics request to beryllium eliminated. Of course, the astir reliable non-fossil fuel, atomic power, would not beryllium disposable either since the “No Nukes” mob successfully pressured erstwhile Gov. Andrew Cuomo to unit the shutdown of the Indian Point plant. The conception that star and upwind powerfulness unsocial could supply vigor and energy for the full metropolis is simply a tube dream.

Dennis Middlebrooks, Brooklyn

Stringer’s vision

Mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer wants to prosecute 3,000 cops to marque up for the nonaccomplishment of galore officers retiring, quitting, oregon transferring to different constabulary agencies (“Stringer: I’d prosecute 3K cops,” Jan. 17).

Good luck. New York is present down respective 1000 cops from years ago, contempt Adams hiring 1,600 recently. Not surprisingly, caller recruits are not flocking to go cops. The starting wage is astir $58K successful a metropolis with the highest taxes and precocious rents. Can you blasted radical for not wanting to hazard their lives that?

Joseph Valente, Staten Island

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