-Caveat Lector-
3 OF FINEST REASONS WHY 'SORRY'
DOESN'T CUT IT
By STEVE DUNLEAVY
DETECTIVE Anthony Senft was suddenly
back amid the blood, bravery, gore and hatred
of Dec. 31, 1982 - what a New Year's Eve that
was.
"Rocco looked like he had been attacked by a
shark," Tony was saying.
"He was propped up on one elbow and was
trying to warn us about a bomb in a Kentucky
Fried Chicken box. He was telling us to look
for it. We were looking for his left leg which
had been blown off.
"He was so very brave."
Tony was talking about Detective Rocco
Pascarella, who was blown up on that New
Year's Eve by an FALN terrorist bomb near
Police Headquarters.
Rocco told me he didn't remember a thing
about it, but he doesn't have much trouble
recalling that his left leg, left eye and left ear are
gone.
"Bitter? Well, not really. I know it sounds
corny but you've got to realize as a cop, it goes
with the territory," he was saying.
But Rocco, like any sane thinking human being,
is damned angry about Bill Clinton talking of
giving the FALN terrorists amnesty, so long as
they "renounce" violence.
"And all they have to say is 'I'm sorry.' Sorry
for terrorists anywhere in the world just doesn't
work," Rocco said.
Rocco got his introduction to pain, tragedy and
lifelong disability at about 9:50 p.m. that night
when people were preparing to pop
champagne.
Det. Tony Senft and his partner, Richie
Pastorella of the bomb squad, were horrified to
watch as Rocco was rushed away to the
hospital as blood made like Niagara.
Det. Pastorella made sure he stayed on
Rocco's left-hand side so Rocco could not see
that his left leg was gone.
"I knew he was in bad shape, but I was worried
that maybe shock would make the whole thing
worse," Det. Pastorella told me.
But Tony and Richie, with their bomb-squad
dog, High Hat, would get an even closer look
of the FALN who hid in a castle of cowards.
"We got a call to nearby St. Andrew's Square -
two suspicious devices in brown bags," Det.
Senft said.
The faithful bomb-squad dog, High Hat, made
the bombs. He was tied up out of harm's way.
Richie remembers the moment when they knew
that time and a bomb was working against
them.
"There were a lot of Chinese people from
Chinatown, literally only 20-25 feet from where
the bombs were. I am now seeing the
possibility of a lot of dead and a lot of
injuries," Richie recalled.
"We were not wearing uniforms, of course, and
we are trying to clear the area. We yell out:
'Police! Police!' As soon as they heard the
word police, they froze, and we wanted them
to run away. We literally had to carry them
away.
"I start to suit up to put on my bomb-squad
suit, which weighed 100 pounds. Tony says,
what are you doing? I tell him, I'm about to
earn my money [to defuse the bombs].
"Tony says, you are not going alone. And I
say, this is one mile we'll walk together."
Det. Senft recalled: "Eyewitnesses said later I
was thrown 18 feet in the air and Richie was
thrown back 25 feet."
Tony lost his right eye, had his ear drums
blown out and a blood clot threatens his lungs
today.
Richie may have gotten it a bit worse. He is
blind in both eyes. All the fingers of his right
hand were blown off. He has had 13 major
operations and 20 titanium screws hold his face
together.
And now there is talk about amnesty for these
terrorists?
"I was literally on fire and the uniform cops
physically rolled their bodies over on me to
douse the fire," Det. Pastorella told me.
If Bill Clinton is talking about amnesty to garner
the Puerto Rican vote for his wife, Hillary, in
the Senate race, then he doesn't know too
much about the Puerto Rican community who
come to this city, this state, to work hard to
make a better life.
Det. Senft was saying: "My beautiful
daughter-in-law is Puerto Rican. My grandchild
is half Puerto Rican. This has nothing to do
with Puerto Ricans. It has to do with terrorists
of any nationality."
And Bill Clinton will be getting a message
tomorrow as the combined outrage of 270,000
members of the National Association of Police
Organizations launches a very committed
campaign to tell him his brains are where his
boots are, or maybe somewhere else.
Thomas J. Scotto, president of the Detectives
Endowment Association of New York City and
an executive officer of NAPO, has started the
ball rolling with this letter.
"With all the tragedies the world has recently
endured - from the destruction of the World
Trade Center in New York City ... to the
bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in
Oklahoma City ... to the horrific carnage
resulting from the leveling of the American
Embassy in Narobi, Kenya - it is absolutely
unbelievable that the White House would be
granting pardons to any FALN terrorists,"
Scotto wrote to the nitwit Clinton.
"Granting pardons or amnesty to convicted
terrorists broadcasts the perverse message that
constructing bombs and killing and maiming
innocent people is acceptable in our society.
What is the difference if the bomber is a white
supremacist like Timothy McVeigh or a loner in
the woods like the Unabomber?"
Det. Scotto has a way with words, but his
actions are going to speak louder.
It appears that Clinton's fractured mentality is a
flip side of that memorable line from the movie
"Love Story."
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
So I see it all now. Being a terrorist only means
you have to say you're sorry and you'll be free
as a bird. But it won't get a single vote from the
law-abiding Puerto Rican community.
And while we're at it, why don't Hillary and Bill
invite Osama bin Laden to Camp David for the
weekend as he says: "I'm sorry, Bill"?
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