Letters: The army serves the individuals, not Donald Trump

Army serves thepeople, not the president

As a veteran of the Marines, I took an oath to defend the Structure. Immediately, I see that oath below risk — not from overseas enemies, however from rising authoritarianism at dwelling.

Peaceable protesters are being met with pressure. Marines are being handled as instruments of political intimidation. In the meantime, the identical leaders who’re reducing Veterans Affairs dare to name themselves pro-veteran.

I didn’t serve for a president. I served for the individuals, and I’m talking out to defend democracy earlier than it’s too late.

Samantha IbarraConcord

Intimidation tacticsshould get truthful reporting

Your article June 13 left me extraordinarily disenchanted with my subscription to your paper. You appear to be treating MAGA with child gloves. Donald Trump is tearing aside our democracy, treating U.S. senators with violence.

As Sen. Alex Padilla stated, “If I am treated this way, imagine how hard-working, farmworkers, day laborers … are treated” by this regime.

Catherine EgelhoffAlameda

With EPA neutered,cities should step up

Re: “City fined $336K for release of sewage into bay” (Web page B1, June 8).

Richmond’s advantageous for insufficient water remedy is just not an remoted occasion; as a substitute, water districts have been negligent for years. Take EBMUD, for instance; it has been fined a number of occasions over the previous fifteen years.

As this text rightly mentions, I fear about how state and federal businesses will implement provisions and settlements to discourage comparable plant negligence sooner or later. Nonetheless, even that’s ambiguous. From an preliminary studying of the settlement doc, there are not any pointers for a way the district will keep away from contamination sooner or later. Furthermore, federal enforcement appears unlikely — the EPA has undergone appreciable layoffs and finances cuts, limiting the sources it will probably commit to enforcement.

If our businesses can’t regulate, then we, as a public, must push for extra concrete motion to deal with this drawback.

Aayush GandhiDublin

EPA is selecting profitover the surroundings

Re: “EPA leader is seeking to repeal climate regulations” (Web page A4, June 12).

As a progressive religion chief, I write with concern in regards to the EPA’s proposed rollback of environmental protections introduced June 11. This represents an ethical failure, abandoning our sacred responsibility to guard the weak.

Our religion calls us to be stewards of creation and guardians of our neighbors’ well-being. The EPA’s proposal to remove greenhouse gasoline limits and weaken mercury controls will trigger untimely deaths and elevated most cancers, mind harm and beginning defects. Mercury significantly harms growing fetuses and youngsters. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin presents a false selection between financial system and surroundings. True prosperity can’t be constructed on others’ struggling or creation’s degradation. Calling local weather motion a “cult” whereas implementing dangerous insurance policies abandons scientific proof.

We betray future generations by eradicating protections once we ought to speed up local weather motion. What’s going to we inform our youngsters once they ask why we selected income over clear air?

Laurie ManningSan Leandro

Column obscuresTrump’s malfeasance

The East Bay Instances should not be afraid to light up the truth that Trump is a mortal hazard to our democratic lifestyle.

Kanda AlahanConcord