Thomas is hypocritical

Re: Cal Thomas’s shocking hypocrisy. (“When will the madness end?,” April 6.)

According to the Officer Down Memorial Page in the 10 years 2014-2023, 20 law enforcement officers in New York state died by violence. Two by Vehicular Assault and 18 by gunfire. Of those 18, one succumbed to his wounds received 31 years earlier, and two were killed inadvertently by other Law Enforcement.

In his column printed on

April 6, Cal Thomas uses the killing of Officer Jonathan

Diller to whine about how awful things are in Liberal New York.

In the same 10-year period, 73 law enforcement officers in Texas, the Conservative version of Heaven on Earth, died by violence. Fifty-three by gunfire, 16 by vehicular assault, three by assault, and one by stabbing.

Why don’t the lives of these 73 heroes matter to Thomas? Why isn’t he calling out “the system” in Texas that failed to “protect” them as he has in New York?

The answer is simple. Because he can’t use their deaths to get paid. Acknowledging that Texas is four times as deadly to law enforcement as New York won’t get him a check.

Thomas’s failure to acknowledge the sacrifice made by these 73 heroes shows that his opinions and positions are without merit, and he’s just a sad little man whining because he doesn’t like the way things are. The death of every law enforcement officer is a tragedy. To profit from them financially and to further a political agenda, as Sad Cal does, is hypocritical, pathetic, and disgusting. Printing anything he writes is a stain on any paper that does so.

— Alex Francis

Catskill