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Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio in Manhattan on Sept. 30.
De Blasio’s humanitarian deeds
College Park, Md. : “De Blasio’s Nicaragua fling” (Op-Ed, Sept. 30) totally distorts the movement Bill was a part of. I worked with him in at the Quixote Center in the ’80s when we ran the Quest for Peace program, shipping huge quantities of food, clothing and medicine to the war-ravaged people of Nicaragua. His work was humanitarian and apolitical. The Quest for Peace did not endorse any regime, but we were part of a larger movement to end the destructive and immoral Reagan war policies in Central America. I, like de Blasio, am proud of our part in that movement for justice and peace, led largely by religious Catholics, Protestants, Jews and others. (Author Ronald Radosh mentions liberation theology, but where have you heard that recently — Pope Francis, maybe?) While we had critiques of some Sandinista policies as time went on, we focused on the destructive U.S. war policies in the region. I was proud to call him a colleague. Maureen Fiedler, Sister of Loretto, former codirector of the Quixote Center
Fair is fair
Brooklyn: Your front page (“House of Turds,” Oct. 1) adds to the discord in the country. After all, it’s just as easy for President Obama and the Senate to give the GOP its two bones. That’s not asking for much. One, they want to postpone for one year the implementation of the health care law. Two, they want every federal worker to have to live under the law. Right now, Congress and the White House and their staffs are exempt. Luis Canales
Foul mouths
Floral Park: Your headline was disgusting even for the Daily News. There is something wrong when a family newspaper cannot use decent language. The personnel involved in editing The News should be changed for intelligent journalists. Gabriel Stefania
No big deal
East Meadow, L.I.: So the government shut down, and I am once again hearing the same hysteria we heard about sequestration. If sequestration didn’t make the U.S. implode, as we were warned, I am sure a few days of the government shutting down will be a veritable vacation. Cathy Mervyn
Just go away
Forest Hills: Since no one is more nonessential than Tea Party Republicans, can’t they just furlough themselves and let the sane people go back to making government function? Alan Hirschberg
Lawlessness
Bronx: As a lifetime New Yorker, this past weekend’s incident on the Henry Hudson Parkway makes me feel less safe in this city I love (“Motor psychos,” Oct. 1). How can a mob of bikers gather in this city without the police being assigned to monitor them? If five people demonstrate on Wall St., there is a cop or two there to watch. It’s a disagrace that these people were chased down a major N.Y.C. roadway for miles without a cop in sight. It could have happened to any of us. As they say, “There’s never a cop when you need one.” Steve Salem
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