Posted on 05/24/2020 11:45:23 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Curtis Sliwa hopped into the water off Coney Island on Sunday, defying Mayor Bill de Blasio’s no-swimming order — and mocking hapless city Parks Department cops who watched him from shore as a crowd cheered him on.
But Sliwa, dressed in a wet suit — and his trademark red Guardian Angels beret — strolled into the surf and swam around for about an hour without consequence, while a crowd of people on a pier near the old Parachute Jump cheered for him.
Seven or eight Parks officers tried ordering the Guardian Angels’ founder and mayoral candidate out of the drink at one point, but when he refused, they just stood and stared from the sand.
“I slowly walked into the water, and the Parkies are apoplectic, they don’t know what to do,” Sliwa recalled to The Post. “They start blowing their whistles as if they were lifeguards, screaming, ‘Come back! Come back!’ And I just keep going deeper and deeper and deeper.
“The whole concept is, this is our beach, not de Blasio’s. We pay for it. We’re taxpayers. Everybody else gets to swim in Long Island, Jersey Shore, Mediterranean. Not us? No, no, no.”
Before he took his first dip, Sliwa, who announced in March that he is running for mayor, buried an “effigy” of de Blasio in the sand. It consisted of a foot-high cardboard cut-out of the mayor’s head glued to a stick.
“I buried an effigy of de Blasio, right up to his head, so you could see his whole face. And I started kicking sand in his face, because of his edict that you could not swim in the water,” Sliwa said.
“His Parks Department people were staring. .. And then I slowly walked into the water,” and the officers start freaking out, to no
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I love this guy! He’ll probably be elected to some position at some point. Burning the effigy will be a great campaign ad.
More people need to do stuff like this. Fight the dictators! Don’t wait for a court to defend your rights, do it yourself.
“Don’t wait for a court to defend your rights, do it yourself.”
Wise words.
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Fighting back against communism.
He buried it. He didn’t burn it.
Ping
Interesting take. From my perspective, a “public beach” is communist at its core.
I wouldn’t mess with Sliwa.
He can kick you in the face,
with both feet.
Rode an elevator alone with his wife in downtown Manhattan once.
I wouldn’t mess with her either.
Don’t know if they are still married.
Today my wife and I are married 20 years.
Thanks for posting. HOORAY Curtis Sliwa. Walking around with the likeness of a severed, bloody head of Blah Blah would also do for comedic relief from the psychopathetic POS.
CONGRATS to you both. Lots of anti-marriage, anti-family, anti-children, anti-life evil forces working against you. (44 years here in October)
So much for wondering if the Coney Island PD would be wearing surfer shorts or speedos...guess it’s neither
Really? Wow, I wouldn’t have thought that. Too bad! ;(
Aw, I see. Still, it’s not pretty effective.
Anyway, aren’t most New Yorkers anti-Trumpers?
Which they should not be, after all he has done for them.
It is, not it’s not. Sheesh, to myself
:)
Congrats!
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