Act like the employees you are

Belle Harbor: Re “Owners a national disgrace” (column, May 24): Let me state a simple fact: There is no unrestricted First Amendment right of free expression when you are at work. Period. I don’t have it, you don’t have it and athletes don’t have it. Nobody has it! Any business owner has the right to require certain behavior of his employees in the public eye. If the next time you go to a restaurant you are greeted by a waiter in a MAGA hat and a “from my cold dead hands” T-shirt, would you be kindly disposed toward his right of free expression? I doubt it. And the owner would have every right to say, “If your dress offends our customers, you’re gone.”

Let me point out another simple fact: Protests cut both ways. If a white player knelt to protest affirmative action, or if black and white players who were deeply religious knelt to protest gay marriage and abortion, would you all be manning the ramparts defending them? Fat chance. You sanctimonious, hypocritical phonies would be frothing at the mouth in your haste to condemn them. Bobby Nelsen

‘Animal’ training

Linden, N.J.: Any President who calls human beings “animals” doesn’t deserve to be voted for in the future. Case closed.

Ron Jackowski

Homegrown gangsters

Copiague, L.I.: It may be of interest to some of your readers that MS-13 is not imported from Latin America, contrary to popular belief. It was formed here in the U.S.A., in Los Angeles, by youth who were tired of being disrespected for their ethnicity. Every time someone makes false statements about Latinos, it simply drives more youth into groups where they are told to be proud of their Latino heritage. President Trump’s statements will be used as a recruiting tool. Both FBI and ICE statistics show that the vast majority of MS-13 members cannot be deported because they are citizens. You can’t deport someone who was born here.

Karen Meyer Campbell

Speak up

Manhattan: Has lawyer Aaron Schlossberg ever been to a Hasidic community and demanded they stop speaking their language? Lou Pini

Bottomless appetite

Whitestone: The NRA motto is “Enough is never enough — keep selling those guns.” Sally DeFelice

Block the bullets

Bronx: It would be difficult to control the number of guns in existence. But controlling how ammunition is distributed is the way to deal with this.

Wendy Cameron

Root of the weed problem

Flushing: Smoking is smoking and it’s not good for you. Rather than spending money to legalize marijuana, the money should be spent on educating our young people to never start smoking. Go into the schools and show pictures of people dying from lung diseases caused by smoking. Go on field trips to hospitals and see what smoking has done to so many. It’s not a pretty sight. If the children see this when they are young, I’m sure most of them will never light up and also try to get their parents to stop smoking. What are we going to have next — legal speed zones for people to drive fast? The authorities should try to change the people, not the laws. Evelyn Zorovich

See suffering upclose

Monroe, N.J.: After spending four years getting chemo and radiation for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and then reading in your paper about people who are hurting and robbing old people: Please visit cancer hospitals and see real suffering, and I am sure they will change their way of living. I always believe in giving, not taking. You will feel a million times better. Dolores Csatlos

Royal inspiration

East Patchogue, L.I.: After seeing the royal wedding in England over and over, such a joy, it is my opinion that if Princess Diana’s husband was a good husband, you know what I mean, I believe she would be alive today. I believe Diana once said there is no marriage with three people in it. And I hope that the brothers’ wives have great relationships. God bless them all. Catherine Lo Curto

Mean about Meghan

Clifton, N.J.: To Voicer Fran Bocignone: You have some nerve calling Meghan Markle a “lowlife”! What’s the matter, are you jealous Prince Harry married a black woman? You sure aren’t royalty with a name like that and living on Staten Island! God help us from mean-minded people like you. Jackie Hilliard

Singing praises

Camden, N.J.: I was shocked to hear the Kingdom Choir sing “Stand by Me” at the royal wedding. This song, made popular in the early 1960s by Ben E. King, is a traditional rhythm-and-blues beat. Many great vocalists have sung and recorded it. Although my karaoke practice version is by the Drifters, I highly value the original as well. Since seeing and hearing that song performed at Prince Harry’s and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding, I look forward to returning to the karaoke stage once again to sing my very own rendition.

Wayne E. Williams

Raining on Trump’s parade

Jackson, N.J.: To Voicer Frank Palagonia: While I appreciate and respect your service to our country, as well as your right to your opinion, I respectfully disagree. The parade that you referred to celebrating the end of World War II was certainly worthwhile. The one that is currently being planned, however, is in my opinion nothing more than an attempt to appease Donald Trump’s already massively inflated ego. It seems to me that it would serve no valid purpose, other than possibly flexing our military might. Even the Bastille Day Parade that was the apparent inspiration for this idea is a celebration of a turning point in the French Revolution. Parades such as the one Trump desires are the type held by tyrannical regimes such as those in Russia, Iran, China and North Korea. Are these really the types of countries we should be taking inspiration from? Charles Monk

Switch, Simcha!

Brooklyn: Like state Sen. Simcha Felder, I am a registered Democrat and an observant Jew, and often vote for a Republican over an ultraliberal Democrat, as is my individual right. That said, I applaud New York’s Democrats for approving a resolution booting him from the party. The majority of the constituency that elected Felder is ultraconservative, and more than 80% voted for Trump. Therefore, there is no reason not to change his party affiliation as so many of our elected official have done, including Ronald Reagan. As an elected Democrat, Felder is doing a disservice to all New Yorkers and, worse yet, like Shelly Silver he is giving people a reason to justify being anti-Semitic. So please follow your supporters Trump and Pence and change parties for the good of all New Yorkers.

Perry Newman

Banks, where the money is

Brooklyn: I have an idea for the MTA to fix the subway system. Why doesn’t the MTA just ask Steve Banks at the Department of Homeless Services for a loan?

Joe Fusco

To the victor

Bronx: It was once said that Mayor de Blasio plays checkers NHAT V. MEYER/BAY AREA NEWS GROUP/TNS and Gov. Cuomo plays chess. I have one better: Colin Kaepernick plays chess; President Trump plays Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.” Jorge Sierra

Make museums free

Hicksville, L.I.: To Voicers Barbara Pryce and Linda Lusskin: It is my understanding that the Metropolitan Museum admission charge (which is outrageous) only applies to non-New Yorkers. As a resident of Nassau County, I am not sure if only residents of New York City qualify as New Yorkers. It is totally disgusting to price museums out of the reach of ordinary people. My son lives near Washington, D.C., and there, all museums are free, as they should be. If we can subsidize sports stadiums and arenas we can do the same with museums. Joe Squerciati

Docs, please take Medicare

Manhattan: Doctors who don’t accept Medicare are immoral. Senior citizens depend on Medicare for their health care, and if doctors aren’t dedicated enough to accept it, they should find another profession. I have found very good physicians who do take Medicare, and it’s worth it to search around. Medicare is literally my lifeline.

Marcia Epstein Staten Island: If Mario Batali has freckles, he may be the “Spotted Pig” if allegations are true.

Andy La Barca