Are you her? Sounds like it. Yeah it’s 45 minutes if you speed and you’re lucky and hit no traffic. I live in Riverhead and just to drive to Ronkonkoma takes me an hour. Well I still don’t buy it, I think she is full of BS. There is not a cop or a vet I know who would act like a leftist the way they are saying “We’re going to make an example of you for other right wingers” That is such absolute crap. No, she had to be doing something else there. A good friend of mine is a Suffolk county cop and there is no way in hell he would ever arrest someone just for taking a photo of a chopper, and he sure as hell wouldn’t say “Im going to teach you right wingers a lesson”
I am not her, but I frequently travel to Riverhead and depending upon the day of the week and time of day, the drive from the Throgs Neck Bridge to Riverhead can take as little as little as an hour or as much as five hours. Right now, based upon current driving conditions, Mapquest estimates the drive from Mineola to Riverhead at 56 min.
I have also flown in and out of the Westhampton Airport, where the air national guard base is located, on many occassions.
Why do I get the feeling that you are or are closely related to a LEO in Suffolk County.
Absolutely right. I know a lot of Long Island cops, and they just don’t think in the way that would lead you to arrest a 58-year-old woman and say “I’m going to make an example of you to other right-wingers.” It just didn’t happen. I could see them saying that to some tweaker from Mastic or banger from Roosevelt while cuffing them facedown on the pavement after mouthing off ... but this? Nah.
Now, Long Island cops aren’t exactly conservatives. They are very well-paid government employees who rely for their big salaries and their (to a private sector person) almost unimaginably generous retirement plans upon local and state government which the public employee unions have almost entirely captured, and on the extremely high taxes that their captive government is willing to impose. If there were a robust Tea Party movement on Long Island which was stalking the tax assessor or PBA President driving his kids to lacrosse practice, sure I could see them getting up in arms about a right winger — but the military? No way. Cops are completely pro-military, and are important component of the Guard and Reserve manpower by the way. (I played golf with a LI police lieutenant who told me their guys had suffered more shots-fired-in-anger injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan at $600/week than they had in patrolling Nassau and Suffolk Counties at $2000/week in the past 15 years.)