Guard deploymentthreatens rights of all
Re: “Trump says he will send National Guard troops into L.A. to put down protests” (Web page A1, June 8).
The president deployed 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops towards U.S. civilians within the Los Angeles space to help ICE raids and towards folks protesting the entrapment and rounding up of hard-working migrant households. Creating scapegoats based mostly on race and ethnicity, dehumanizing them, creating false narratives that accuse all migrants (and all Latinos usually) of being disgusting criminals, rounding them up, kidnapping them and disappearing them is fascist.
The president is utilizing the federal government as an equipment for depriving folks of their democratic and constitutional rights, civil rights, and the precise to freedom of speech and protest. He has more and more polarized this nation into individuals who assist his fascist and racist insurance policies on one facet versus those that consider in an inclusive democratic society and who assist financial and social justice on the opposite. Everybody can select to vote, protest, march and voice their opinions to advocate for democracy and justice.
Joe NavarroHayward
E-bikes a disserviceto younger riders
I lately returned from a go to with my aged mother and father in Walnut Creek, the place I grew up. I like using my mountain bike within the Shell Ridge Open House. Nonetheless, with my bike out of fee, I borrowed my brother’s previous touring bike and loved getting reacquainted with the various devoted bike trails. This infrastructure for biking was not accessible once I was a child. What a present to have this path system for therefore many person teams.
I’m, nevertheless, dismayed by all the children using electrical bikes on comparatively flat trails. Youngsters are of their bodily prime, however as a substitute of having fun with the exhilaration of utilizing their very own energy, they’re merely pulling again on a throttle with no effort expended or abilities developed. Most of the children have been using with out helmets and in sandals. It is a well being and security difficulty I hope mother and father will consider.
Douglas WhiteAnchorage, Alaska
Time for all of us to sayno to assault on republic
Are you conscious that Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s deputy chief of employees, has set a quota of three,000 deportations per day?
In America, the federal government doesn’t get to seize folks off the streets, skip due course of and the courtroom, and ship them to prisons far and extensive. The federal government doesn’t get to make use of unidentified brokers in balaclava hoods, with weapons and with out warrants to grab relations at work or immigration conferences. These practices are completely towards our rights outlined within the 14th Modification.
Many individuals thought this might not occur right here. Nicely, it’s. Time to train your First Modification rights to say loudly and clearly, “Not now, not ever.”
Michele BrynjulsonPleasanton
Walters has predictedstate’s finish for 50 years
Re: “Democrats explode size of government” (Web page A8, June 8).
One more article by Dan Walters portends the final word demise of California.
Poor Dan, for 50 years, he has been singing the identical tune, gleaning random statistics from state bureaucrats to doc the state’s decline. As a Sacramento-area resident, I typically chuckled on the columns he provided via the Sacramento Bee. Citing the identical elements advert nauseam, Walters ceaselessly slams Democratic management in California, but he continues to dwell right here. As he predicts fiscal and inhabitants collapse, each develop. He hand-wrings over points that not solely plague California however the remainder of the nation as nicely.
It’s California, Dan … and it’s nonetheless a dream.
Jon JamesPleasanton
Congress should exciseworst of Trump’s invoice
Donald Trump’s so-called Massive Stunning Invoice is dangerously misnamed. It should take away many environmental and well being protections and negatively influence folks and our surroundings.
Listed here are only a few examples of what this harmful invoice will do:
• Require new fossil gas and mining growth throughout tens of thousands and thousands of acres of land and waters in Alaska and require offshore oil drilling within the Gulf of Mexico.
• Finish just about all federal clear vitality and effectivity packages, tax credit, and incentives which have produced tons of of billions of {dollars} in clear vitality investments.
• Roll again clear air and water protections, exposing us all to poisonous and dangerous air pollution.
Contact your representatives and senators. Encourage them to do all the things they will to take away probably the most alarming and harmful items of this invoice.
Ellen BeansMoraga
