Letter: The election, Trump, and Daniel Penny

Yes, “how sweet it is!” to repeat Thomas Ceruzzi’s quote from the great Jackie Gleason, whose show, “The Honeymooners,” epitomized the high quality of TV shows way back in the 1950s. Yes, “how sweet it is” to see the Democrats trumped out of office and cackling Kamala’s campaign brought to an ignominious end. Yes, if for no other reason, the bludgeoning of nursing student Laken Riley is reason enough to cheer the border czar’s tumultuous loss in the presidential election. Of course, those clamoring for open borders, “reproductive rights,” the option to transition to another sex, changing one’s pronouns, defunding the police, cancellation of student debt, leniency for criminals and the acceptance of perverse lifestyles (have I forgotten anything?) are now going bananas over all the losses sustained by their party and have surely already begun to hatch a plot to thwart the president-elect. Yet, having taken notice, finally, that all this perversion is associated with the Democratic party—a party that even a Kennedy no longer wanted to have anything to do with—hoards of the electorate came to their senses and switched allegiance to propel Trump to the presidency.

Have we really elected a criminal to the country’s highest office, as many readers of this paper believe? Well, whatever crimes Trump may have committed pale out of sight—and I mean, out of sight—when compared to the crimes committed by this president and his border czar who have facilitated the entry of millions of illegal migrants who, in turn, have become an economic burden in many of our cities, have perpetrated innumerable crimes, have lowered the quality of life in many sectors and have made the job of the police yet more difficult.

“Thanks, Joe Biden!” shouted a migrant as he gleefully sprinted across the border. What a sucker this administration has allowed the country to be taken for! What other nation would spend billions on unvetted illegal migrants to its own detriment? And this doesn’t even take into account the drug traffickers and the entry of terrorists, concerning one official who said that “nothing scares me as much as does the presence in this country of foreign terrorist groups.” Yes, thank God that Trump was elected!

Now, does this mean that everything is going to be just Jim Dandy under a Trump administration? The world situation is such that no human being or group of human beings can solve the world’s problems, and World War III can happen under anyone’s administration. For true peace and security, divine intervention is the only solution.

Now that Trump has gotten through most of his legal woes, I urge everyone to do whatever be possible to rally in support of Marine Daniel Penny—yet another victim of New York’s wacko liberal establishment. How is it possible that a United States Marine, who has most honorably served his country, be facing 15 years behind bars for defending the public against a creep? How is it possible that a man whose life has been devoted to service be vilified for going out of his way to subdue someone who had a rap sheet a mile long, was a clear threat to passengers, and whose life had been devoted mainly to disservice? Mental illness or no mental illness, something had to be done—and Penny put himself in harm’s way to help others, something that the great majority of us—let’s admit it—would not have done. It’s unfortunate that Jordan Neely died in the scuffle, but isn’t that his own fault, or that of his own family, or of the city for not providing services for the mentally ill? Or maybe if funds for such services had not been used up for providing free room and board—and cell phones—for illegal migrants.

Ron Weckessar

Port Chester