Liberals sleep as terror strikes

Brooklyn: Yeah, great idea, Daily News that “the civilized world must unite to mourn and to battle terror” (“Murders in Manchester,” editorial, May 23). Why don’t you start by not undermining our President every single chance you get? Maybe cover his speech to the Muslim word which echoes your article instead of an article about his wife not holding his hand. Help him do this for all of us. Patrick Sharkey Astoria: This is what will happen: A) Western leaders will condemn the attack. B) Comforting hashtags will be created. C) Those same Western leaders will warn against “Islamophobia.” D) Muslims will whine that they’re being persecuted because of the bombing. E) By Friday, it’ll be on page 3. F) There will be another terrorist attack somewhere in the world.

Brad Morris Flushing: Hey, liberals, do you still want to let the refugees in this country? Hey, Hollywood, one of your own, Ariana Grande, narrowly escaped a terrorist act in Manchester, England. Hey, Daily News, are you still going to support the Democrats who want to bring these people into our country to commit terrorist acts? It only took one terrorist to kill 22 people and injure 59 more. Time to get your act together. Dennis Gavarian

Times Square truth

Los Angeles: Re “Dad of teen killed in Times Square rampage leaves note at tribute” (May 22): I have to take exception to this sentence: “Alyssa Elsman was hit by an out-of-control driver.” This was not the case at all. This was a callous, drug-induced, deliberate act. The sentence used implies this was an accident. Keith Goldberg

Respect Roger

Bronx: Re Linda Stasi’s column on Roger Ailes’ death (“Shed no tears for sexist sicko Roger Ailes,” May 19): Linda, that could have been your father, husband or son. When a person dies, it is never good news, especially for the family. You have too many hate outlets; get counseling.

Isabel Malave

Run, Linda, run

Los Angeles: Yay, Linda Stasi! She has more, bigger, better balls than that nutjob in our White House or any of his cronies and supporters — including that big jerk Roger Ailes! She is soooo not afraid to “tell it like it is” and mess with these spoiled, petulant bullies. Linda Stasi for President! Stat! Kellie Anderson

Give Linda a break

Jefferson Valley, N.Y.: The criticism of Linda Stasi’s comments on Roger Ailes are off-base and, at their heart, sexist. Would a eulogy for David Duke skip over his racism and dwell only on whatever accomplishments that he had during his life? Hardly — but the critics wish to ignore Ailes’ sexual harassment now that he is dead! Mention is made that Ailes’ family is still alive and deserves peace — well so do the women that Ailes demeaned and scarred, but they live on. Their treatment by Ailes should not be swept under the rug now just because he is dead.

John F. McMullen

Stasi fan

Schenectady, N.Y.: To all Voicers who wrote of their disgust with Linda Stasi: You are dead wrong — just like Roger Ailes is. Finally someone gave him what he did to too many women.

Diane Hombach

Ailes man

Smithtown, L.I.: Hey, females who write letters to Voice of the People. Men wanting to have sex with women is normal. What exactly did Roger Ailes do? I have heard about ladies who enjoy sex with men. A lot of ladies dress to look attractive, so men pay attention to them. This is normal. Also, too much same-sex conduct is shown in the media. OK, don’t arrest or beat up gays, but it isn’t normal behavior. Alan Franks

Opioids hit home

Brooklyn: Not until the heroin/opioid crisis began directly affecting members of the NYPD, their families and communities did they finally start looking at drug users and low-level dealers with some degree of mercy, as seen in their new approach toward these offenders (“NYPD focuses on helping drug users, rather than locking them up,” May 22). When heroin was scourging black, Hispanic and low-income areas throughout New York City, the basic feelings expressed by the vast majority of NYPD and middle-class and upwardly mobile New Yorkers were that these “junkies” were just lowlife skells. Interesting how that mindset changed once it became a problem in their own communities, too. Jamie C. Connor

No sympathy for druggies

Flushing: Why do law-abiding citizens always get the dirty end of the stick? We are overtaxed constantly while lawbreakers and those who do not pay taxes get a free ride. Now we are to give drug users help instead of jail? What is going on? Why aren’t parents teaching their children to say “No” to drugs? I guess it’s easier for them to go to a drugstore and purchase naloxone in case they overdose. I have no sympathy for anyone who overdoses — not an adult or a child. I am disgusted that our police and fire personnel are being used to be the watchdog for weak lawbreakers. Drugs are not a disease; cancer is a disease! People choose to use drugs; people do not choose to get cancer! Wake up and start accepting responsibility for yourselves and your children. Law-abiding taxpayers are sick and tired of those who take a free and easy way out and believe the laws do not apply to them. Linda Gastel

Trumpcare vs. opioids

Brooklyn: Maybe News writers John Annese and Larry McShane can research and investigate Staten Island residents’ reaction to how Trumpcare, specifically cuts to Medicaid, will gut funding to help people with substance abuse. Since Staten Island voted nearly 60% to 40% for Trump, go ask the victims’ families and neighbors of those affected by the opioid epidemic how they voted in 2016. And better yet, since the American Society of Addiction Medicine has already addressed Congress and told them that this bill would mean less people get treatment for addiction, have those voters go and defend it in front of the victims and their families. But the likes of the right-wing Staten Island voter might stoop so low as to deem the American Society of Addiction Medicine fake news. Maybe they’ll even deem the opioid epidemic “completely false,” or a “witch hunt” or claim that it isn’t happening. They’re certainly voting for funding that is treating it like it doesn’t exist.

Daniel Borgia

Right in front of their noses

Manhattan: A front-page article on Opioid Nation, with a can’tmiss outside shooting gallery in the South Bronx — with all the evidence and drug paraphernalia a near-blind person couldn’t miss. And all the cops on patrol in the South Bronx didn’t see this? Was this by accident or on purpose? Gimme a break. All this nonsense about community policing and getting the community residents involved. And the precinct responsible for patrolling this area, patrols pass this right by? Who’s kidding who here?

Leonard M. Marshall DAVE THOMPSON/GETTY IMAGES

Saudi reparations

Manhattan: So the Saudis are going to invest $40 billion in our infrastructure (“Blackstone, Saudi’s PIF plan $40 billion infrastructure investment fund,” May 20). Am I the only one who has a problem with the country that sent us 15 of the terrorists on 9/11 owning our roads, bridges, water systems, electrical grids, airports and who knows what else? Alice Curtis

Keep your eye on the sparrow

Brooklyn: On May 11, an NYC bird watcher took a video of the mindless destruction caused by construction contractors for the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation of protected marshland known as the Four Sparrow Marsh Preserve in Brooklyn’s Mill Basin section at the southern end of Flatbush Ave. This age-old wetland has been vital nesting and foraging habitat for 16 species of birds — most important being the imperiled Saltmarsh Sparrow, whose declining population faces extinction within 50 years. The interplay of the construction of a Toys ‘R’ Us, the reconstruction of a nearby bridge, and the new construction of a large car dealership via a politically corrupt land grab contributed to the absence of any observed nests in the marsh for this coastal bird in 2016. With its “Forever Wild” breeding grounds wiped out, even the best restoration efforts may be too late for the Saltmarsh Sparrow to return to Four Sparrow Marsh.

Jeffrey Kramer