Tom Cotton Slams the NY Times After Kathy Hochul Sends the National Guard to Restore Safety on NYC Subways
“Following a series of violent incidents in the New York City subway system, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced a new five-point safety plan that includes bringing in hundreds of National Guard troops and adding new security cameras.”
In 2020, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) wrote an op-ed for the New York Times suggesting Trump should use the military to quell the BLM/Antifa riots that had taken over American city streets. Staffers for the Times went into ‘open revolt,’ which resulted in the resignation of the editor who approved the column.
Just last month we learned more about the insanity that unfolded at the Times over this.
Now, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has activated the National Guard to restore safety in New York City’s subway system and these same folks at the New York Times are curiously silent.
CBS News reported:
Hochul deploys National Guard troops to New York City subway amid rising crime numbers
Following a series of violent incidents in the New York City subway system, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced a new five-point safety plan that includes bringing in hundreds of National Guard troops and adding new security cameras.
Hochul announced that a combined 1,000 personnel — including 750 National Guard troops, along with MTA Police — would be deployed in the subway system to help the NYPD conduct bag checks in an effort to keep weapons off trains.
“Let me just be very, very clear. These brazen, heinous attacks on our subway system will not be tolerated,” Hochul said.
This came in addition to Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement Tuesday to add more police officers and re-institute bag checks.
“I know how it plays on your psyche when you hear about some random acts of violence and that’s why we must be proactive,” Adams told CBS New York in an interview earlier Wednesday ahead of Hochul’s announcement.
JUST IN: Violent crime is getting so bad in New York City subways that Gov. Kathy Hochul is deploying 1,000 total National Guardsmen, state police & MTA police to patrol them.
Liberal policies have consequences.
750 members of the National Guard and 250 state troopers will now… pic.twitter.com/l6yn24CSN9
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 6, 2024
Just look at this. It’s like TSA for the subway.
NOW – National Guard deployed to subway stations in NYC.pic.twitter.com/HWNqhGISI8
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 6, 2024
More screening here than on Biden’s border. https://t.co/XmnQfFL0BD
— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) March 7, 2024
Tom Cotton proposed deploying the National Guard to quell some of the most destructive riots in American history. Hochul is doing it for quotidian law enforcement purposes.
Crickets from New York Times staffers. https://t.co/ieaSTDPnDP
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 6, 2024
NYT employees called him a “fascist.” pic.twitter.com/hESw7ylfvZ
— Mark Ashworth (@marklarflash) March 6, 2024
Someone owes Tom Cotton an apology.
FOX News reports:
Sen. Tom Cotton dunks on NY Times as paper reports Hochul is sending troops to NYC to combat crime
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., appeared to take a victory lap over The New York Times as it reported on Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plans to send troops to the Big Apple to crack down on crime.
Hochul announced Wednesday that she will be deploying 750 members of the National Guard to New York City’s subway system to assist the New York Police Department (NYPD) with bag searches at the entrances of busy train stations.
This comes as the crime rate increased 20% during the first two months of 2024 compared to the same period last year, according to NYPD data cited by the New York Post.
The Times shared the “breaking news” on social media, which caught Cotton’s attention.
“Sending in the troops to help restore law and order…” Cotton summarized the Times’ reporting.
Sending in the troops to help restore law and order… https://t.co/E3ULnQQ8or
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 6, 2024
What changed, other than the party of the person calling for this?
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Sending in the troops is racist because it is know in advance that arrests and confrontations will have a disparate impact on POCs.
The solution is to indict all 750 NG troops now and let them prove they are not guilty.
Or just send in the UN Blue Hats and let them rape everybody into submission. NYC residents seem to be down with that approach.
1. Defund the police.
2. Deploy the armed forces.
3. Profit!
We’re talking about thugs who think nothing of a mob attack on armed police officers in broad daylight on a public street. Does anyone think some additional security cameras and probably unarmed National Guardsmen are going to deter them from mugging or killing subway riders? All that will accomplish is providing pictures of who the DAs are going to apologize to, release from jail and not prosecute.
And the Guardsmen are going to what, paw through gym bags and women’s purses to make sure the citizens are unarmed and unable to defend themselves from packs of illegal alien gang bangers?
Wait until the first Guardsman (or Guardswoman) gets overrun by thugs and their M4, M16, or even SAW gets stolen.
No big deal, it’s exactly the same thing you can buy at any gun store.
Right?
I am so weary of seeing ( 12 % of population) blacks everywhere on TV, corporate communications, etc. I pine for the good old days when I saw them only in Stewart Granger or Clark Gable jungle epics.
You, like many of us, are suffering from black fatigue.
I have been ever since I saw the crap they pulled with George Zimmerman and a bunch of other similar cases. I think a rather large subset of Blacks have become the most vocal racists in America.
Whoever downvoted that is either fat-fingered or fat-headed.
This is racism. Pure and simple. Why does LI allow this?
For the same reason they allow your rambling diatribes.
Despite many decades of indoctrination about “racism” being the greatest of mortal sins, it is still a fundamental tenet of our Republic that people are entitled to voice their opinions.
If you don’t like another’s opinions, you have the right to voice your own contrary opinions, but not entitled to suppress views you disagree with.
Clear? Reality is contrary to the leftist worldview, so this can be painful for some.
BLM is such a fraud. How’s defunding the police been working out for you NYC??
Mayor adams gives himself pat on back and raise.
Watching the video of the bag-searches being conducted, to me it felt a whole lot more like they were screening for potential bombs rather than looking for guns or knives. I wonder if what we’re seeing isn’t actually precautionary measures being taken against credible terrorist chatter rather than a response to the street-level crime. This may be much more about terrorism and much less about thugging.
Why not just say that? Can you imagine where Biden’s polling would be if we began to return to America circa 2002 in our airports and subway stations?
They will search the bags of white people.
Hochul needs to go. She has betrayed New York State at every turn.
And yet they keep electing her.
Next up on Clown World News:
“Defund the racist National Guard!”
And of course, the kneejerk response is to attempt to ensure that nobody has any means of self-defense. It wouldn’t occur to them to ensure that EVERYBODY has the means of self-defense. Nuh uh — self-defense is EEEVIL!
That job is reserved to blue governments… who then entirely neglect it, but you still aren’t allowed to provide your own. Just like border control, the states, and the feds.
Free Daniel Pearl!
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-city-choking-death-revives-debate-over-subway-crime-2023-05-09/
Izvestia on the Hudson prints it’s views as if they’re the news. When Sen. Cotton’s op-ed was published, Izvestia’s view (or that of its Communist staff) was that the op-ed was fascist. When Gov. Hochul actually does it, its view is that it’s not fascist. Don’t bother Izvestia with reality. It’s view is the reality.
As for blaming state officers, like the governor, the legislator, or the courts, just keep in mind that the voters who voted for those state officers had better choices. Instead they voted for those currently in office. The voters deserve everything bad that happens to them.
Penny, dammit! Free Daniel Penny.
It’s too late to help Daniel Pearl. His killer was released by the Pakistani Supreme Court
I thought KSM was still incarcerated in Gitmo.
Whis is better?
1. Protect the border. Keep the enemy out.
2. Let the enemy in. Let them go wherever they want. Feed them, clothe them, aid them and abet them, After they’re scattered all over the place, deploy the national guard to keep everything under control.
The answer is entirely dependent on whether your corporation arms the National Guard.
Cotton for Governor or Mayor of NY! How about Cotton riding shotgun with the National Guard ?!
In the video, I see rifles with magazines (and nice trigger control!) but are the magazines actually loaded? Are these soldiers actually authorized to use deadly force? And must they “shoot in the leg”?
And I thought “assault rifles” were EVIL!!!! Won’t subway snowflakes say they “don’t feel safe” seeing these “fully automatic, 50-calibre, heavier than 10 moving boxes” instruments of destruction? After all, at least one “authority” claims the full “30 round clip can be fired in half a second”. But only in Bizarro World.
Plus, according to the Posse Comitatus principle, the military is not to be used to perform police actions on US citizens on US soil. But wait — the National Guard is not “the military” when they don’t want it to be. Same uniforms, same weapons, same training, but (until magic words are uttered) “just a bunch of snappily-dressed guys.”
It’s so slippery. It’s as hard as defining “woman.” Or “infringement.”
Hochul’s in rare form lately, even for her. She bucking to be Dark Brandon’s replacement as candidate for enforcer in chief?
— Criminal people doing criminal stuff in NY Subway, mostly recidivist, known habitual “offenders”, so her answer is the actual military, deployed interior to the US, searching — er — “screening”, sorry, everybody. They checking vaccine passports, while they’re at it?
— Threatened boycotting truckers with suspension of licenses, confiscation of vehicles, accounts and even homes. Our loud. On camera. The consequences were nice n crisp, while the infractions were a tad squishy.
— On the not-a-border-bill bill, she demanded that upstate Republican reps get the bill through, because there’s a problem in Manhattan. (Albany, administers upstate, to serve Manhattan.)
Nothing like rubbing a leftist’s nose in their own mess….
It’s conditioning you to accept martial law and anarchotyranny as normal, which is exactly what any police state wants.
Cotton’s point is not valid. His column was calling for troops to be deployed to put down actual rioting, which means they’d be hurting and arresting people. Naturally those who supported the rioters objected and called it “fascist”. Hochul is not deploying the Guard to fight anyone, hurt anyone, or arrest anyone; they’re searching bags, which is pure security theater. It doesn’t make anyone safer, and it doesn’t threaten the Democrat Party’s terrorist wing. That’s why the Times has no problem with it.
Milhouse, You’re hair splitting is ridiculous. She is deploying armed soldiers to stop crime. How do you know they won’t hurt anyone or have to shoot? How do you know they have to hurt anyone keeping peace during riots? Frequently just the presence of the Nat. Guard will stop riots without any blood shed. You border on intellectual dishonesty here.
No, she is not deploying them to stop crime. She’s deploying them to search bags, which achieves nothing. It just makes some people feel good.