Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is taking heat for his bold plan to deploy deputized residents during county emergencies.

If you aren’t familiar with countries where powerful people have their own militias… would you like to be?

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Robert Moses. He has a parkway named after him

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Wasnt Robert Moses also the bastard responsible for all the “urban renewal” projects that bulldozed poor/black neighborhoods to build freeways?

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