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A generation after the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, not only is a supporter of Islamic terrorism ensconced in Gracie Mansion, but the New York City Council is preparing to purge one of the few remaining critics of Islamic terrorism from its already depleted ranks.
One of the five men convicted in the brutal rape of the Central Park jogger is a New York City councilman while another is running for his own spot on the council, but the City Council’s ethics committee is instead charging Councilwoman Vickie Paladino with “disorderly” behavior for criticizing Zohran Mamdani and his raft of appointees sympathetic to Islamic terrorism.
The New York City Council Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics, whose members include 8 Democrats and only 1 Republican, has taken no action over the fact that a New York City Council employee, Rafael Bohorquez, turned out to be a criminal illegal alien who had been arrested for assault, but is charging a 71-year-old Republican elected official with “disorderly” behavior because it doesn’t like her tweets criticising Islamic terrorism.
And Zohran Mamdani.
The committee hasn’t launched investigations into any other councilmembers over their tweets.
There were calls for an investigation of Councilwoman Paladino after she condemned the Muslim massacre of 15 people, most of them Jews, at a Chanukah party. But there has been no investigation of Shahana Hanif, a Bangladeshi Muslim councilwoman affiliated with the DSA, which has defended the Hamas massacre of Jews, for appearing at a rally where Hamas was cheered, blaming Israel for the Oct 7 attacks, initially refusing to condemn the massacres, and endorsing the Columbia encampment which targeted Jewish students and faculty members.
When Councilwoman Hanif was arrested at a pro-terrorist rally, that was not “disorderly behavior”, but Councilwoman Paladino’s tweets against terrorism are somehow “disorderly”.
The same councilmembers who have claimed that Paladino’s tweets were “deplorable” and “inflammatory” have failed to describe Shahana Hanif in the same way after she blamed the Oct 7 attacks on Israel, for refusing to support an end ‘Jew-hatred’, and for refusing to condemn antisemitic graffiti and vandalism in her district, claiming instead that Israel was ‘vandalizing’ Gaza. They have instead come after a councilwoman who has consistently stood up for America, for New York City and for its beleaguered Jewish community.
The targeting of Councilwoman Paladino began in earnest when she criticized Mamdani’s pick of Faiza Ali, who had worked for CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in terrorist funding, which supported the Oct 7 attacks. Islamic terrorism isn’t ‘disorderly’, but criticising it somehow is.
“New York is under foreign occupation. There’s really no other way to put it,” the councilwoman tweeted. “Does this administration have one single actual American in it?”
Council members denounced Councilwoman Paladino as “Islamophobic” and claimed that her tweet violated the city council’s “harassment” policy. The speaker falsely claimed that “this deplorable, inflammatory conduct negatively affects Council employees and people across our city … and we will not tolerate behavior that targets or demeans any community based on their faith, background, or immigration status — particularly from our own members.”
Harassment policies govern the behavior of employees. Abusing them to selectively restrict the public speech of elected officials in the opposition is the kind of government misconduct that the Bill of Rights was created to prevent. Previous crackdowns had already reportedly limited the councilwoman’s participation on committees after she criticised ‘drag queens’ grooming children through ‘story hour’, but the City Council can impose fines and even expel members.
The question is whether the Islamization of New York City politics is so complete that an elected official can be expelled for questioning Mamdani and the radical members of his administration.
“I have every right under the United States Constitution to engage in political speech on any platform I see fit. No administrative policy supersedes the Constitution, and no government entity may sanction an elected official — or anyone else — for participation in political discourse in the public square, online or otherwise,” Councilwoman Paladino warned.
If Democrats are able to craft ‘harassment’ policies that criminalize any political speech that they disagree with and then selectively apply them to opposition elected officials, then only Democrats, and more specifically, Democrats on the farthest left, will be able to hold public office.
The case against Councilwoman Paladino rests on the argument that her criticism of Islamic terrorism is “disorderly”. No such standard is applied to supporters of Islamic terrorism who now run the city or to actual criminals who sit on the council or work for it. Likewise the contention that her criticism of Islam is “harassment” of City Council employees not only perverts workplace regulations to silence political speech in the marketplace of ideas, but has not been applied to any of the councilmembers who have denounced Jews and endorsed terrorism.
Is speech violence? It’s worse than violence because the same council members who rallied to the defense of Rafael Bohorquez, a New York City Council illegal alien employee who had reportedly assaulted a man, are claiming that a tweet criticizing a radical Mamdani pick with ties to pro-Hamas groups is “disorderly” behavior and more deserving of punitive action.
Condemning Islamic terrorism and its supporters is worse than physical assault.
“None of the posts cited by the committee contain threats of violence. No elected official, ideology, or religion is above criticism and debate. I have every right to speak my mind on social media without fear of retaliation by my government, as does every American. The fact that this egregious disregard for the Constitution was allowed to proceed to this point is a stain on our Council, and on New York City. Actions like this are meant to intimidate both elected officials and individuals against speaking their conscious on matters of public import and controversy, and the chilling effect on speech is undeniable,” Councilwoman Vickie Paladino contended.
There’s no room for the Constitution, for criticism of Islam or patriotism in New York. We tried to liberate Afghanistan and Iraq, when we should have really liberated New York City.
NYC council is deplorable;
May God bless and protect Vickie Paladino
I love Vickie! She is a straight talker and must be defended. I pray that Bruce Blakeman is elected governor and removes Mamdani as mayor – the governor can do this.
All,
This is classic Islamic Law of Slander being enforced by Muslims and non Muslims alike.
What we need to do is defund and liberate the universities. The destructive poison is coming from the universities.
Go right ahead. Let’s see what you are capable of besides cutting and pasting Objectivist tripe
How much rent are you charging THX 1138 for living in your head? President Trump has suggested 10% caps on credit card interest rates. To help THX 1138, maybe President Trump can put a ceiling on that rent.
Our country would be so much better off it heeded much of the advise of Ayn Rand.
My little personal busy body, who spelled advice wrong, strikes again. I don’t live in THX’s head, but you definitely live in mine Oh Gassy one.
Only the total extirpation of the Magian spirit from the soul of man can fix what ails the world—including higher education.
Councilwoman Paladino should quit before the usurper has her arrested for criticizing Islam
Am I the only one who expect pogroms in NYC when the weather gets hot this year?
Several years ago I read George Orwell’s 1984 and over the past several years have been seeing it coming true. Several years ago I watched the movie Escape From New York and would prefer that came true instead.
New York surges in the national Islamopandering derby b
Clear indication NYC is going the way of the UK.
The West is entering a modern Dark Age.
I think the West is being rapidly carried back to the 7th. century. It won’t be long before after Friday prayers everyone will be forced to stand an watch the capital punishment being exacted by the hate-filled mullahs. Cranes, tall buildings and sharp swords and knives at the ready.
NYC is now a has-been city, a long way from its former position of “being the place to be”.Full support to those who push for the anti Islamic position. We do not want to become another London England or Minnesota. This is a free America and we need to defend that to our last breath. God Bless America and DJT.
“CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator”
Please, when are these a** holes going to become, indicted, for all the crap we know they’ve done?
And, just how do all these slime people get elected to city council? Never mind! For a sec. there, I forgot it’s NYC.
A crazy thought hit my feeble brain. What would Rush Limbaugh think?
And this is how they silence dissenting voices, one by one, until there is no one left to stand for what is right. If the USA does not reverse its race towards cultural annihilation, it will end up just like the UK.
This is Islamic Blasphemy Laws being applied via the Koran.
Tell the Islamo Lunatics to go to Hell. Only U.S. Law applies here.
We have the same madness here in Britain.
Schools have been advised by local authorities that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law and music and dance may conflict with religious sensitivities. The Telegraph has more.
Schools have been advised that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law.
Guidance issued to teachers by Labour councils in northern England warns that images made by pupils in art lessons may be seen as “idolatrous” under sharia.
The advice, designed to help teachers adapt to religious sensitivities, also warns that music and dance classes could be contrary to the teachings of Islam.
It adds that diversity in the classroom can be “a great source of strength”, but that schools “will want to be flexible in catering for religious difference”.
Wow. I’ve never heard of her, and never seen her, but I think I’m in love with someone named Vickie Paladino. But then I’m not surprised she’s special: she’s Italian-American.