Death Chants in Dearborn: This Is ‘Pro-Palestine’?
Even in America, freedom has its limits (“Death chants at Mich. rally,” April 9).
We are not free to murder without fear of accountability (although New York sometimes appears headed in that direction). Nor should we be free to chant “Death to America.”
Citizens expressing those views should be criminally charged, and noncitizens should be deported. This is not an attack on free speech, but rather a defense against those that promote and encourage harm to the United States.
We need to stop this insane nonsense and enact laws that will protect our country. To allow this kind of dissent to continue is the height of stupidity. We have a right to feel safe in America.
Don Whitman
Cross River
At a recent “Al-Quds Day” rally — the annual protest against Israel, popular in Muslim nations — in Dearborn, Mich., protesters chanted “Death to America.”
My question following this incident is whether the president has alerted the FBI, CIA and any other pertinent agencies about this disgusting fifth column that promotes hatred?
Disagreeing with supporters of Israel is fine, and fits within our almost 250-year-old right to free speech. But “Death to America” is something else.
I’m not advocating for arrests or indictments, but I am heartily demanding investigations, and a more stringent awareness and absolute vigilance of these people.
Freedom of speech shouldn’t be confused with a suicide pact. At least President Biden denounced the violent rhetoric.
Myron Hecker
Pearl River
How about “Death to Terrorists” instead?
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
Citizens of the United States — who enjoy all the benefits attendant to that privilege — are chanting “Death to America?”
Does anyone in our government realize that the situation in Michigan needs immediate attention?
Robert Mangi
Garden City