I wanted to follow up on my earlier post about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s channeling of Reinhard Heydrich.
This was his Tweet in question:
I looked into the situation that propagated this response.
A prominent Yeshiva Rabbi known as Chaim Mertz died of the Coronavirus. Several hundred Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn gathered for the funeral of the Rabbi near the intersection of Rutledge Street and Bedford Avenue.
Some enterprising Karen decided to rat out the Jews hiding in the attic gathering in the street because the group of mourners was going to be larger than approved by the Mayor and Governor.
NYPD was warned ‘big crowd’ would turn out for rabbi’s funeral
Moses Weiser, a longtime liaison between the Hasidic Satmar community and the NYPD, said Wednesday that he “personally spoke” with Capt. Mark Vazquez, commanding officer of Brooklyn’s 90th Precinct, before Tuesday’s funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz, 73, who sources said died earlier in the day of COVID-19.
Weiser said Mertz’s Williamsburg synagogue, Tolas Yakov Bais Hamedrash, “originally wanted to have just family” outside “and we would set up speakers down the street a couple of blocks so that people could spread out and listen.
“But an order came from somewhere to cancel the speakers — I’m not sure where the order came from — and so people started gathering close to see what was going on and to hear.”
The Yeshiva released a statement explaining how they were supposed to hold the funeral while maintaining social distancing, but that never happened leading to this gathering. The news indicates that the NYPD’s mishandling of this from the beginning allowed this situation to occur.
The NYPD then reacted by breaking up the Jews paying their respects with lights and sirens, and generally acting like jackbooted thugs.
Police response pic.twitter.com/KcVZYV9C2s
— Reuven Blau (@ReuvenBlau) April 29, 2020
— Reuven Blau (@ReuvenBlau) April 29, 2020
IANAL, but I do not understand how a mayor or governor issuing an order that says people cannot be less than six feet away from each other is an enforceable law.
I suspect that after this Coronacrisis is over, the Supreme Court will decide that in the many subsequent lawsuits filed against politicians across the country.
Moreover, a funeral, especially that of a Rabbi, is a religious ceremony and I’m pretty sure breaking up its group with police is a double violation of the First Amendment – both the free exercise of religion part and the peaceably assemble part.
I stand by this for Jews and for Christians. I really hope that Churches harassed on Easter Sunday get their day in court.
This didn’t stop Mayor de Blasio from going full tyrant.
Something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite: a large funeral gathering in the middle of this pandemic. When I heard, I went there myself to ensure the crowd was dispersed. And what I saw WILL NOT be tolerated so long as we are fighting the Coronavirus
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) April 29, 2020
Then he blamed the entire Jewish community in the aforementioned Tweet.
This brought out the anti-Semites in droves.
These YIDS don’t care about anyone but themselves. Let them all congregate & catch the virus. Just make sure they sign ONE OF THESE so they don’t waste the time of a 1st responder or a hospital bed. pic.twitter.com/rXnyhwSZdt
— Veezo Mesteezo (@NYCBANDITO) April 29, 2020
Hope they all catch COVID-19, they just listen.
— Ugur Bari (@karayavsanli) April 29, 2020
Wanting Jews to get sick and die and have any medical care forfeit.
Throw a smoke bomb on these cockroaches!
— cara salas (@carasalas15) April 29, 2020
Nice.
— Comrade_J3b (@ComradeJ3b) April 29, 2020
I had 109 boyfriends break up with me, and all of the breakups were completely their fault.
— . (@fortyfiveeighty) April 29, 2020
This was a recurring theme.
Then there were the people blaming this funeral for the spread of the virus and propagating the lockdown.
This insidious covid-19 virus, is eager to attend a traditional gathering. I can’t believe this utter act of selfishness! Everyone in these pictures is responsible for spreading the virus & increasing the mortality rate. #GovCuomo #MayordeBlasio #COVID19 #CDC
— Powern’ Numbers (@PNumbera) April 29, 2020
Forget the funeral they need to understand they are putting people in danger. Its the same thing at yeshiva university. They need to be arrested and fined to the highest fined they can get. What happened in BK when they had a party at barbershop?
— Big Homie Booth (@Schoolboy_Booth) April 29, 2020
They are casing pain for others. Absolutely, mindblowing that they think this is acceptable.
— Aila Kahlfuss (@KahlfussAila) April 29, 2020
Keep in mind that we just learned that the New York City subway system has become a homeless encampment on wheels and that it has been the number one vector for the Coronavirus infection in the country, making NYC home to half of the nation’s virus deaths.
The city, only yesterday, announced they would start disinfecting subway cars.
Then there have been countless cases of people in NYC out in public not social distancing.
Blaming subway riders or people hanging out in the parks and dispersing them with police? No, that’s not being done.
A bunch of Jews attending the funeral of a very important leader in their community? Yes, that is what is really causing the Coronavirus deaths in New York and the reason the lockdown will never end.
This is just a shit-show of anti-Semitism, First Amendment violations, and government incompetence.
It is a recurring theme. Jews support leftist causes, and when at some point during the revolution, the knives come out, they are shocked.
Will Gruppenführer Wilhelm (de Blasio) provide masks and disinfectant for the boxcars?
What’s next, wearing some kind of badge?
You can’t fix stupid. — Ron White
“ I suspect that after this Coronacrisis is over, the Supreme Court will decide that in the many subsequent lawsuits filed against politicians across the country.”
The sad thing is every single solitary one the Supreme Court will throw out. Remember, the courts are still a part of the government. It will always defend itself. So as I stated expect every single court ruling to be In favor of police state tactics.Even if it was a shoot to kill order to enforce of quarantine. If the police had gone to that and just started machine-gunning down those mourners Bill de Blasio would still have his job and every single court would say it was in his right to do it. And what’s really fucked is he would probably still get reelected. After all to the courts and to the government at-large the only good person that opposes the government is a dead one. And that includes the Supreme Court.
So yeah I don’t have any faith in the courts. I expect them to rule in favor of the government. Always. Even when in a few years the first you could’ve weapon is used on a major population center to quell the mass uprising the government (Run by democrats) creates. That’s gonna be something; supreme court stating that is within the governments rights to drop nuclear weapons on United States citizens on United States soil because they oppose the government killing citizens for whatever other reason primarily because they own guns.
Unfortunately I prettyuch agree with you. Not to mention all the states of emergency that have been declared that grant additional powers normally outside of the realm of what is possible, like taking unilateral executive actions….
In Germany protesters that protested against the law that prohibits protests were beaten and driven apart by the police.
A few days later some bigshot of an eastern european criminal clan was buried and the police more or less ignored them. They were “on scene” but did nothing.
Funeral gatherings are also forbidden by law as are protests* – but in on case the police dispersed a few dozen people with force and in another case they ignored a few hundred (thousand?) people who committed the same crime.
Criminals get a pass while normal people get fined.
*) “infection protection law” – a temporary law in Germany
The city, only yesterday, announced they would start disinfecting subway cars.
Which will be effective until the first passenger rides that car the first time. About a second.
All about appearances, nothing real or substantial going on. The only real way to sanitize that hole would be a fireball.
Today’s debate topic, everyone: :Escape From New York: Plan for the Future, or Foretelling?”
The WSJ had an article the other day about people moving out of NYC. It wasn’t clear how big that trend was. Part of the driver seemed to be businesses trying to cut their dependence on subway transit for their employees — which basically translates into “move the office far enough away that commuting to it by private car is feasible”.
Yeah, but I was thinking of the movie, wherein The Island was walled off, and patrolled by sharks, gunboats, and suchlike.
Although, your scenario is appealing, as well!