Killer’s freedom
Governor Hochul showed contempt and disrespect for murder victims and their families by granting clemency to Bruce Bryant, the convicted killer of 11-12 months-old Travis Lilley (“Kat Gives Away to Boy Killer,” Dec. 24).
Travis was the child Bryant took his life. That is an injustice to the Lilley family.
I do not care what number of degrees Bryant earned in prison at taxpayer expense or the so-called charity work he did in prison. These acts cannot atone for the taking of a human life.
What he did to get into prison needs to be the focus of attention, not his actions while locked up in a jail cell for 30 years. Travis Lilley can never go home. Bryant should never have come home either.
Gary Acella
Staten Island
Overwhelming speech
Here in the United States, freedom of speech is under threat, especially on our college campuses, where freedom of speech has been carved out through protest, agitation and court decisions (“Preyed on by think police,” Jonathan Turley, Dec. 27).
Today, capricious and cowardly academic leaders and trustees cower behind “political correctness” and blame (and seek to punish) freethinkers for alleged “heresy” and other outrages of “morality.”
With the exception of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression – which has replaced the ACLU as the banner of free speech in America – the variety of those that fight on behalf of scholars and school accused of political incorrectness is dwindling.
Free speech advocates like Turley are few and much between. Today’s academy prides itself on suppressing speech and suppressing controversial, unpopular opinions amongst students and school.
Today, on too many campuses, few remember (and even fewer follow) the doctrines of the radical Free Thought and Free Speech advocates of the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies. Wimpy college presidents are paralyzed by a campus mob that seeks to censor and silence those that disagree with them.
Michael Meyers
President of the Civil Rights Coalition of Latest York
Manhattan
No hating heroes
Thanks to Douglas Murray for his article on our American heroes (“Re-‘righting’ history for USA’s heroes”, December 23).
I used to be terribly upset by the humiliation of those amazing people. No man is ideal. No era in human history is ideal. Nonetheless, to destroy such heroes despite all the good they’ve done due to the flaws they possessed (which were also flaws in the era of humanity they lived in) is an outright disgrace.
How anyone can humiliate Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Abe Lincoln (and the list goes on) is beyond decency and intelligence.
Teaching residents to hate all the things about this amazing (despite its flaws) country is outrageous. Doing so is a large threat to democracy and progress.
Judy Krasnow
Jackson, Mich.
Social villains
The Post’s coverage of the U.S. government’s interactions with social media firms tells a story we would have liked to hear (“Feds ‘social’ize,” Dec 23).
But please don’t overlook the indisputable fact that Russia and China are running very large influence operations designed to use social media to poison the minds of our residents and make it unattainable to rule the United States.
Russia and China have information headquarters which are dwarfed by the modest content monitoring and moderation of social media firms.
So long as Russia and China try to spoil our peace, awareness of the threat from the US government will likely be obligatory.
David Donoho
Setauket
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