As New. York prepares for the ball to drop live during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve hosted by Ryan Seacrest, crime keeps rising.
NYPD is gearing up for more than 5 1⁄2 hours of music performances, guests and a glimpse at New Year's Eve celebrations around the globe. This year, it returns for its 52nd time and marks Seacrest’s 19th year as the show host.
Back in the days when I covered the news on the streets the annual event was marred by FALN a 1970s Marxist–Leninist militant group which fought to transform Puerto Rico into a socialist-communist form of government.
According to local published reports Federal and city investigators said that a Puerto Rican terrorist group was apparently responsible for a series of bombings on New Year's Eve that rocked four government buildings in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn and seriously injured three police officers.
The blasts at Police Headquarters, two Federal office buildings in Manhattan and the Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn during a 90-minute period, severed a leg of one officer and injured the eyes of two bomb squad detectives.
The detectives, one of whom also lost all the fingers on his right hand and may have been deafened, were felled when one of the bombs blew up in their faces. They might have been killed had they not been wearing armored suits, the police said. A fifth bomb, made of four sticks of dynamite, was found in lower Manhattan and dismantled before it exploded.
The explosions were believed set by Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, or Armed Forces of National Liberation which has claimed responsibility for some 100 bombings that have killed six people in an eight-year campaign of terror in the name of Puerto Rican independence.
There is a lot to scare us in this world – Guns, cancer, diabetes, neurological diseases and much more. When we do get sick there is the price tag that comes with waging a medical war to survive. So often, folks postpone going to the doctor because they don’t want to see the medial bills and this ends up being a very unhealthy and often deadly decision. The whole scenario is fearful.
However, life is not to be lived in fear. Being afraid freezes us, paralyzes us, and overcomes us. We seldom move forward when frozen by fear. Therefore, live your life to the fullest, but be careful… https://youtu.be/xBdF3E2NVI8?si=Q7Uy4PLopYqrytSa