remove them was charging $250
an hour. NYC DOT facilitated the
total removal when the banners
were considered too old and we
were given a good price to remove
them all. Since we have canceled
our permit, which was very time
consuming to keep with a lot
of paperwork, we hope that the
Throggs Neck Merchants or the
Throggs Neck BID will now apply
BY GEORGE HAVRANEK
Visualize a symphony orchestra,
sections of woodwinds,
brass, percussion and
strings, absent the guidance
of a quality conductor. Although
comprised of skilled
musicians, a symphony orchestra
without guidance and
governance will produce tiresome
sounds of dissonance.
The conductors’ knowledge,
experience and intuitiveness
implant confi dence
and order within the skillful
group. Proper leadership
brings ingredients to these
musical sections that creates
pleasant melodies.
A community is a blended
convergence of a diverse populace
reliant on guidance and
leadership. Quality leaders
properly administrate, delegate
and legislate to instill
confi dence and avoid haphazard
confusion. Ongoing events
within our communities have
created doubt and confusion
among many residents. It is
an unarguable fact that wellknown
petty criminals, despite
multiple arrests, continue
their maladaptive ways
as they traverse throughout
our neighborhoods. This dynamic
has community residents
questioning the effi -
cacies of law enforcement,
judiciary and legislators.
The responsibility and roles
of law enforcement and judiciary
have clarity. The members
of law enforcement and
judiciary must abide by the
rules legislated by our elected
leaders. Like fi sherman with
substandard catches, legislators
have mandated our
law enforcement and judiciary
to quickly release most
of the criminal element back
into society.
Our legislators should
heed the words of two iconic
fi gures, one an African-American
poet and activist, the
other, a former -president:
Maya Angelou: “If we
don’t plant the right seeds we
will reap the wrong things…
common sense tells you to
BY LYNN GERBINO
Hello all!
The pandemic is still at our
heels and the executive board
has decided to cancel the September
meeting and will do so on a
month by month basis until November.
We miss seeing all of you
and can’t wait until we are all
together again.
We have also decided to not
collect dues for 2021 if you have
paid in 2020. We will skip a year
since we have not been meeting.
Although we have been
pretty quiet, we have still been
keeping up with community issues
and events. Most of them
come to us at the last minute
and are posted on our Facebook
page, which has been very active.
If a road is closed unexpectedly
or another issue comes up,
it is on our Facebook page. The
logistics of getting these things
in our column rarely work out.
Please consider joining our Facebook
page. Throggs Neck
Homeowners Association.
If you look on East Tremont
Avenue, you will see that our
“Welcome to Throggs Neck” banners
are no longer there. We had
to make a decision to remove
them as NYC was getting testy
about any rips or tears in them
and we were given a 48 hour notice
to remove a ripped one. It
was not economically feasible to
keep them up as they were about
16 years old and the company
that would come and fi x them or
BRONX TIMES R 22 EPORTER, SEPT. 11-17, 2020 BTR
for the permit and adorn our
Avenue with banners.
Throggs Neck Homeowners,
along with every other community
association as well as the
Throggs Neck Merchants Association
and BID, issued statements
against the DOT’s plan to
put a road diet on East Tremont
Avenue. The only section of the
project we were for was the Harding
Avenue from East Tremont
to Emerson Avenue section, as
there is much speeding there. I
listened for two and a half hours
on a web call and the DOT is
ready to ram its plan down our
throats without any input from
the community. It is exactly what
they did in Morris Park and it
looks like we have no recourse.
TNHOA was not a proponent of
the road diet on East Tremont
Avenue past Bruckner Boulevard
as there are always double
parkers and you have to go out
of your lane to go around them
anyway! We will see what the
future brings.
We hope you fi lled out your
census form as it is very important.
Please call CB 10 and they
will help you fi ll it out. The number
is 718-892-1161. It is quick
and easy and it carries weight
in all funding and services we
receive here.
Please stay safe, wear your
mask, consider the health of
other people in doing so.
If you need us you can message
us on our Facebook page or
call 718-823-0327.
BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
The hideous disorder in cities
like New York, Chicago,
Portland, Seattle and even
Washington D.C. are neither
protests nor riots. They are not
mere acts of crime, either. Indeed,
the assault on the federal
courthouse in Portland was the
moral equivalent of the attack
on Fort Sumter that commenced
the Civil War.
It is time to properly identify
what is going on in these great
urban centers: rebellion against
the Constitution. Assaulting innocents
for merely wearing
MAGA hats, invading police
stations, declaring whole neighborhoods
to be “autonomous
zones,” burning buildings, assaults
on law enforcement personnel
and engaging in mass
looting have nothing to do with
any particular issue or racial
division. They are, in fact, acts
of secession.
A secession that, similar
to what happened in 1861, has
been aided and abetted by some
Democrat leaders. As Washington
urgently sought to restore
safety in Portland, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi called federal
law enforcement personnel
“stormtroopers,” tweeting “@
DHSgov’s actions in Portland
undermine its mission. Trump
& his stormtroopers must be
stopped.” A friendly media
failed to ask the salient question,
stopped from doing what?
Preventing the destruction of a
federal courthouse?
If these were merely the acts
of a mob infl amed by recent
news reports of particular incidents,
the descriptions of rebellion
or secession would not
apply. But the reality is that in
most cases where the recent
incidents of urban chaos have
occurred, they have been tolerated
or even inspired by hardleft
elected offi cials. Take just
one example. New York’s Mayor
Bill de Blasio cheered on the Soviet
Union when it placed combat
forces in Nicaragua. As
Mayor, he has spoken up against
property rights and America’s
capitalist system.
In Chicago, Mayor Lightfoot,
in the aftermath of a weekend
in which 24 people were
killed, issued a fi rm statement
— against potential victims
defending themselves with
guns. Similarly, w prosecutor
in St. Louis seeks indict two
people for engaging in legitimate
self defense. Portland’s
mayor stands by while Antifa
attacks journalists.
The concepts of defunding
the police, limiting First and
Second Amendment rights, protests
against reasonable measures
by the federal government
to protect U.S. borders at
home and insure an adequate
defense against increasingly
powerful enemies abroad can
only be seen, in the composite,
as an attempt to bring down the
lawfully elected government of
the nation.
It’s a strategy that has been
pursued with dedication since
the election of 2016. When the former
head of the Central Intelligence
Agency, John Brennan, the
then-current head of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, James
Comey, and the former head of the
National Security Agency James
Clapper conspired to essentially
overturn the results of a legitimate
election, the tone for rejection
of Constitutional norms was
set. When the cherished and vital
tradition of a peaceful transition
of power from one administration
was rejected by leftist pundits,
politicians and academicians, the
wheels were set in motion.
It is all the result of several
trends, some long-standing.
Decades-long indoctrination
by anti-capitalist, anti-Constitution
educators, in some cases
funded and incited in part by Beijing’s
“donations” primed a generation
to hate the nation that has
provided more prosperity and
more freedom than any in history.
Misinformation delivered
by a news media that has become
little more than a mouthpiece for
progressive politicians brings
that drive to a wider audience.
Hollywood, now signifi cantly invested
with Chinese cash, obediently
touts Beijing’s propaganda.
Finally, corporations and sporting
leagues, who believe that kowtowing
to China will bring them
extraordinary riches, round
out the falsehoods that support
the rebellion.
The substantial involvement
of foreign infl uence in the Anti-
Constitution Rebellion of 2020
makes it every bit as real and
as dangerous as the Secession
of 1861.
BY TONY SALIMBENE
So it looks like we’ll try to
get back to Post business on the
third Sunday, 9/20, as of now.
Meeting at TN Memorial Post
1456, thanks to Commander Joe
F. and staff. Any changes, we
will let you know ASAP. Same
times – 10:30 coffee, 11 a.m. meeting
and we’ll see about lunch
around noon.
Please do a buddy check,
call your teams to remind them
(and maybe bring a potential
new member).
Just to brag (again), Aunt
Cathy reminded me we actually
sent over 9,000 boxes to
our adopted unit deployed overseas!!
And a happy birthday
to Commander Gene’s sweetie
and member Ms. Veronica;
many more!
Hope you had a fun and safe
Labor Day Weekend! We salute
working men and women
everywhere. And we hope everyone
took a moment out to
say a prayer and fl y our fl ag in
memory of the 9/11 attacks on
our country. We pray we will
elect governmental offi cials
who will ensure that will never
happen again.
Until next time: Remember,
you must wear a mask to our
meeting and we will set up for
distancing! Don’t let your guard
down. We WILL win this one.
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