Readers sound off on Mayor Adams in office, Yom Kippur and flying monkeys

Innocent oregon guilty, Mayor Adams can’t tally NYC

Stamford, Conn.: Your impermanent sentiment portion “Adams should instrumentality a permission of absence” (op-ed, Oct. 9) proposes the incorrect solution for NYC. Arnold Kriss seems to beryllium suggesting that an acquittal of the pending transgression charges against Mayor Adams renders him acceptable to instrumentality to office. That is simply a barroom excessively low.

The trial for a transgression condemnation is impervious beyond a tenable doubt. An acquittal is hardly capable to lance the crab that has metastasized passim the precocious echelons of the Adams administration. With 4 national transgression investigations pending, a multi-count national indictment against Adams and six elder authoritative resignations to date, the existent medication has been irreparably hobbled and tin ne'er again credibly service the champion interests of NYC.

Yes, Adams is entitled to each of the law protections nether the transgression laws, including the presumption of innocence, owed process and a just trial. But that has thing to bash with the mayor’s quality to proceed moving the astir important metropolis successful America. Whether oregon not Adams is simply a convicted felon should not beryllium the trial for fitness.

The catastrophic implosion of Adams’ medication implicit the past respective weeks tin not beryllium undone. The rot successful City Hall intelligibly runs heavy and it’s perfectly wide that the politician has to go, not temporarily to let this pall to proceed hanging implicit the city, but permanently truthful that the metropolis tin statesman to heal nether the enactment of an wholly caller administration. That’s what the radical of NYC deserve, and thing less. Peter Janoff

Mass exodus

Woodside: Something is not close successful NYC government. Everyone is leaving oregon corrupt. Too galore radical are going. All these radical can’t beryllium bad. So, it is astir apt the accuser who is bad. Let’s grow this to spot what secrets the accuser is hiding. Richard Tobiassen

About that ‘Yom’

Manhattan: Dear Lord, you cognize I deliberation You are the genius of each geniuses. I mean, I wrote a section successful my publication each astir the brilliance of Your imaginativeness and ingenuity called “The Perfect System,” for God’s sake! Oops, incorrect prime of words there, sorry. But I bash person 1 complaint: Why is it that the 1 time of the twelvemonth we Jews are told to accelerated successful the sanction of atonement for our sins is called “Yom Kippur”? Put Yourself successful our shoes, Lord. Here we are endlessly counting the hours ’til our adjacent repast and each we support proceeding each time is, “Yum,” “Yum,” Yum”! Hmm — ya know, present that I deliberation astir it, possibly that is kinda superb aft all. Gary Stein

Tricky clip zones

Manhattan: To Voicer Jim O’Neill: Yes, youngsters whitethorn person to enactment up precocious to ticker the extremity of a crippled oregon miss the last innings. However, starting games earlier lone solves portion of the problem. There’s an full West Coast that besides wants to ticker playoff shot and unrecorded successful a clip portion 3 hours earlier than us. A crippled starting astatine 5 p.m. Eastern would beryllium airing astatine 2 p.m. successful the West, erstwhile those West Coast youngsters are inactive successful schoolhouse and their parents stay astatine work. Even an 8 p.m. Eastern commencement clip kicks disconnected astatine 5 p.m. retired west, with galore folks inactive commuting home. Having grown up retired west, I talk from experience. By the clip you get home, bash your homework and devour dinner, that aboriginal crippled is over. If East Coast kids person to enactment up a small precocious truthful West Coast kids tin spot Aaron Judge oregon Francisco Lindor, it’s a tiny sacrifice. Bob Glasscock

Dispose with care

Stockholm, N.J.: To Voicer Gina Ottrando: We don’t person immoderate thought however the New York Post coiled up connected your lawn, but to get escaped of it, instrumentality a doggy bag, enactment your manus successful it and scoop up the paper. Be cautious not to shingle it oregon immoderate of the crap mightiness autumn retired and get connected you. Walk it implicit to the garbage and mildly driblet it in. Wash your hands with bleach, scrubbing truly hard. Hope this helps. Nat Saraceni

How, exactly?

Newton, N.J.: Voicer W.J. Van Sickle, successful his effect to my missive astir the pullout from Afghanistan, claims that President Biden didn’t travel “it,” referring to the presumption Donald Trump negotiated. As with astir Republicans, helium makes accusations without providing evidence. So, my decision is that Van Sickle doesn’t person any. Michael Schnackenberg

Set the stage

Boynton Beach, Fla.: When Voicer W.J. Van Sickle defended Trump by declaring that Biden did not travel the erstwhile president’s Afghanistan withdrawal plan, helium forgot to notation that the terrorists who murdered our Marine Corps heroes during the withdrawal were astir apt among the 5,000 Afghanistan terrorists released from situation by Trump successful December 2020. Perhaps Trump could person utilized his power with his friends successful the Taliban, the ones helium primitively invited to Camp David to conscionable with him during the day week of 9/11 successful 2020, to mitigate immoderate unit during our withdrawal, similar immoderate existent American patriot — which Trump is not — would person done. If anyone genuinely believes Trump could person pulled disconnected an error-free withdrawal oregon organized immoderate different large undertaking — the COVID-19 response, for illustration — without the effort devolving into implicit chaos, I person a span successful Brooklyn to merchantability you. William T. Bredin

Transactional tests?

Redondo Beach, Calif.: Trump perchance saved Vladimir Putin’s beingness with COVID-19 trial kits. What did Trump, the large negotiator, get successful return? John Chevedden

Unfulfilled promises

Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Barack Obama is disquieted astir Black men not turning retired successful numbers for Kamala Harris. Well, possibly they wised up and realized they’re having a hard clip successful this system similar everyone else. Where is the “promised land” that their alleged saviors promised them? Do they yet get it? No 1 governmental enactment volition pave the roadworthy with golden for them. They request to look astatine what was done for them by each party, Republicans oregon Democrats, and ballot accordingly. They request to halt believing the feline selling snake oil. They request to look astatine facts. Right now, the Democrats are offering what they should person offered from the beginning. The Democrats accidental ballot for change. Yeah — ballot Republican. Brenda Hodgkiss

Primate prisoners

Norfolk, Va.: If you’re flying connected Ethiopian Airlines, you mightiness beryllium amazed to larn who could beryllium flying with you: monkeys — scared, stressed and perchance sick with contagious diseases, including Ebola-like viruses, tuberculosis, salmonella and a bacteria truthful deadly that it’s classified arsenic a imaginable bioterrorism weapon. PETA learned that Ethiopian Airlines has gone backmost connected its assurance that shipping animals was against its argumentation and is present 1 of the fewer remaining airlines that participates successful the gruesome primate trade. It has shipped thousands of endangered monkeys astir the satellite for usage successful cruel experiments. The terrified animals are torn from their homes oregon bred successful warehouses and packed into tiny shipping crates for hours-long journeys. They’re yet trucked to laboratories, wherever they’re deprived of nutrient and water, mutilated, poisoned, immobilized successful restraint devices, infected with achy and deadly diseases, psychologically tormented, utilized successful different excruciating experiments and yet killed. Lindsay Pollard-Post, elder writer, PETA

Hateful and heartless

Bronx: To Voicer John Francis Fox: I person to archer a speedy communicative astir gathering Benjamin Netanyahu galore years ago. In 1986, I was a income rep for the steadfast of his book, “Terrorism: How the West Can Win.” During a income league astatine a Midtown edifice adjacent Grand Central, helium gave an abhorrent code astir Palestinians. Afterwards, I was obliged to shingle his hand. If I didn’t, I astir apt would’ve been successful trouble. I looked him successful the oculus arsenic helium clutched my hand, and I knew close past and determination that helium was a monster. It was an “aha” infinitesimal erstwhile it dawned connected maine that America was connected the incorrect broadside of this longstanding conflict. As I spot existent reports of the horrendous casualties successful Gaza and present Lebanon, I often get flashbacks of those cold, bloodless eyes. Nick Smith