{"id":75703,"date":"2015-09-27T07:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75703"},"modified":"2015-09-27T07:41:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:41:21","slug":"democrats-say-violence-marred-west-indian-day-celebration-is-still-very-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75703","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Say Violence-Marred West Indian Day Celebration Is Still Very Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/cuomo-must-have-gun-control-across-50-states-because-we-couldnt-possibly-cancel-west-indian-day-in-nyc\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>What an absence of leadership looks like. An annual event that attracts deadly violence every year should be canceled, period.<\/p>\n<p>Maintaining public safety is the number one responsibility of elected officials, especially the executive branch, to abdicate that because of political correctness or fear of electoral retribution is a dereliction of duty.<\/p>\n<p>* West Indian Day parade violence not to be confused with Puerto Rican Day parade violence or Dominican Day parade violence.<\/p>\n<p>* Many of the woman are practically nude in that raunchy parade and half of them are disgusting looking. NYC cops hate getting assigned to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: What an absence of leadership looks like. An annual event that attracts deadly violence every year should be canceled, period. 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