Mayor de Blasio denies veterans group permit to march on Memorial Day, is fine with pot smokers’ parade last week

Worst NYC Mayor in a generation…perhaps all time

Citing COVID-19 concerns, the City of New York denied a permit for a Memorial Day parade to a group of 16 veterans organizations in the Staten Island area of the city. The veterans groups were perplexed, as the New York Post reports;

The brush-off came despite myriad marches in the last year that have been recognized by the city, officially escorted by cops, and often featured elected officials in the line of march. They included a slimmed-down St. Patrick’s Day Parade in March, when de Blasio participated; countless Black Lives Matters protest marches; and the cannabis rally and parade May 1, when revelers hoisted a huge inflatable spliff along a 17-block route and heard speeches from Sen. Chuck Schumer among others.

This is especially offensive to the vets groups because just last week there was a “Cannabis Parade” that the city allowed to go down Broadway.

Mayor de Blasio is refusing to allow a group of military veterans to march on Staten Island on Memorial Day — after welcoming public pot smokers to puff their way down Broadway in last week’s Cannabis Parade.

“It’s a slap in the face,” Jamie Gonzalez, 57, a Marine infantryman who saw combat in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, told The Post.

Gulf War vets like Gonzalez were set to be given special honors in Staten Island’s 102nd annual Memorial Day Parade this year to mark the 1991 conflict’s 30th anniversary — until the city pulled the plug.

“For many of us, a parade is a form of closure,” Gonzalez said. “We gather together and support each other.”

“I’m incensed,” said Ted Cohen, 82, a retired Air Force reservist who was on alert through the Cuban Missile Crisis. “It’s pathetic.”

One bureaucrat has obviously worked in government long enough to have seen this coming;

One city official said that the vets have become caught in the bureaucratic no-man’s-land of de Blasio’s haphazard coronavirus rules.

“People are just marching. That’s the new normal,” the official said. “The Staten Island people had the decorum and respect to go the proper way [and] they are suffering for their civic-mindedness.

“No one else is even asking permission.”

de Blasio’s administration is now spitting on the memory of fallen servicemembers. I thought his personal harassment of Jews at a funeral was a low point. He’s such a creative guy though that he finds new ways to dig deeper.

The vets groups are fighting back, as they rightfully should. They’ve demanded a permit from the city and are prepared to sue under the equal protection clause of the US Constitution. If this was a transgender, pot smoking, black lives matter parade, permit approval would have been swift I’m sure.

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