BRONX TIMES REPORTER, J BTR JAN. 21-27, 2022 13
letters & comments
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump clash with police offi cers in
front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S. January 6, 2021.
Photo by REUTERS/Stephanie Keith
Can’t blame Trump
for Jan. 6 riot
To the Editor,
Re: Pasqual Pelosi’s most
recent opinion piece stating
that Donald Trump told the
Big Lie and incited the insurrectionists.
A previous job involved
having an elementary knowledge
of medicine and medical
abbreviations. I bought a
book by a doctor
advocating to eliminate
them. The doctor recounted a
story in which a nurse treating
a bad wound read TAB
(triple antibiotic) on the prescription
as the soda “Tab.”
There being none available,
the nurse instead irrigated
the wound with Pepsi.
How does this relate to
Donald Trump? Simple. If a
nurse is so lacking in common
sense, he/she feels it is
all right to irrigate a wound
with soda and risk hurting
and further infecting a
patient, who shoulders the
blame?
It is very diffi cult to ascertain
if Trump was or was
not responsible for the Jan. 6,
2021, insurrection, although I
fi nd it telling that he has not
been charged with anything
more than a year later. Time
will tell. However, even assuming
for the sake of argument
he 100% incited the riot,
how can you possibly blame
him for the stupidity, ignorance
and lack of common
sense of his followers?
Peaceful civil disobedience
has had a role in our history
(Rosa Parks is a fi ne example).
There is nothing — I
repeat, nothing — worth committing
violence over, risking
lives and engaging in wholesale
property damage. There
is nothing — I repeat nothing
— worth exposing yourself
to arrest and possible federal
charges. If Trump’s followers
are so lacking in common
sense that they don’t understand
this, who is to blame?
Mr. Pelosi in his excoriation
of the Frank Vernuccio’s
column makes a number of
points that are if not valid, at
least debatable. I cannot possibly
blame Trump for this
riot. I blame the people that
participated in the riot.
Nat Weiner
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To the Editor,
Re: Nat Weiner’s letteri n
the Jan. 14 edition of the Bronx
Times Reporter and Bronx
Times.
Thank you for your attention
to my newspaper contributions,
Mr. Weiner. I would
like to point out that my name
is Pasqual, not Pascual. Dr.
Spiegel does not need to visit
the border to study data regarding
the health of individuals
crossing the border,
after all he is not a politician
seeking a photo-op but an internationally
renowned physician
who has published more
than 100 peer-reviewed articles
on humanitarian health
and migration. Also, please
note that Michael Bloomberg
is not an advocate of open borders,
though he does favor reforming
our broken immigration
system. The comments
of Dr. Spiegel can be found at
https://www.nbc.news.com
immigration-border-crisis.
A study by Ruben Rumbaut,
published as Appendix
D at Police Foundation.org,
concludes, “… data from the
census and a wide range of
other empirical studies show
that for every ethnic group
without exception, incarceration
rates among young men
are lowest for immigrants…”.
As you know, the census covers
the entire country. Obviously,
we are not at the point
where we can rely totally
on clean power, though we
should be doing much more
to reach that planet-saving
goal.
Finally, I fi nd your statement,
“Parents shouldn’t
necessarily decide curriculum,
but have a real voice in
it,” puzzling. I cannot fathom
what this means or how it
would work. Please amplify.
Pasqual Pelosi
Point,
counterpoint
View of the fence along the USMexico
border from the California
side looking into Tijuana, Mexico.
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The Riverdale Choral Society
invites singers of all
levels to join us for rehearsals
for our spring season. Because
of the pandemic, we
have changed the date when
our rehearsals will begin.
Open rehearsals will be
held on two Wednesdays,
Feb. 2 and Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. We
welcome all voice ranges: soprano,
alto, tenor and bass.
Rehearsals will be conducted
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Singers who join the Choral
Society will be preparing
for a concert on Sunday, May
22, at which we will perform
“A German Requiem” by Johannes
Brahms. The concert
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to hear beautiful
music right here in the Riverdale
area of the Bronx.
The spring season rehearsals
and concert will
take place at Christ Church
Riverdale, 252nd Street and
Henry Hudson Parkway
East, where there is on-street
parking and easy access to
public transportation.
Since 1964, the Riverdale
Choral Society has been
bringing joy to the community
through performances
of high-quality choral music.
Our welcoming, diverse
group of men and women rehearses
weekly under professional
artistic direction,
singing both traditional and
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Through live concerts and
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