How about sanctuary for veterans?
This is my third time, totally out of character for me, I don’t even send Christmas cards.
I am currently recovering from surgery and can’t do any strenuous physical activity. So this is my strenuous mental activity, driven by anger and disbelief.
I am a Veteran of the cold war era, my son is an Iraqi war Veteran. I served in the Army as an Artic Paratrooper in Alaska. I am not in need of a sanctuary at the moment, but I know there are some veterans’ in California that do need sanctuary from the elements.
Where’s the funding for their sanctuary???
If you asked me, or my son, why we enlisted to serve in the military? We would say, “To help protect our country from foreign and domestic invasion, uphold the American Constitution and the value’s contained within the United States Bill Of Rights”.
Isn’t this what the elected officials in the State Capitol are required to do when they are elected into office, and uphold the law while in office?
I am appalled and down right discussed with the thought of California becoming a sanctuary state!
Shouldn’t something like this be voted on? By registered voters in the state!
Is this action an attempt to increase voter base for the mid term elections?
Even the idea of sanctuary cities, leaves a gut wrenching feeling of despair, along with a nasty taste in my mouth after saying it.
I know that I didn’t serve my time to protect the rights of undocumented immigrants, illegal aliens, or criminals over the rights of my family.
Where has the common sense, logic, and core values gone?
Any politician that supports the idea, of sanctuary state or city, should be arrested for aiding and abetting a criminal.
After all, they are allocating your hard earned tax dollar, to protect undocumented people that have been arrested.
I think Senator Kevin de Leon, should be forced to house these same undocumented criminals’, behind the gates of his own home with his own money!
Not the money from tax payers that don’t agree with his personal crusade to defy federal immigration law.
I’m not the type to get into political debates, or public speaking. Although I took a semester of public speaking at Mendocino College in 95.
I think the tax payers money they are allocating for the legal defense training to defend these people from the federal law, would be better used elsewhere.
Veterans housing before immigrant housing, education funding to upgrade schools for the children of registered voters first, funding for infrastructure upgrades, law enforcement, to name a few off the top of my head.
Is this officially becoming a rant? I don’t know, but I felt the need to vent. I am disturbed by the current invasion of our homeland.
I didn’t think I would expose my fears, in a public forum, before this past week while in recovery, but I did.
Have you thanked a Veteran today?
Tim Salisbury, Kelseyville
This is what we get
It is gut-wrenchingly sad that large portions of our beloved nation have fallen into the hands of racists, warmongers and ignorant fools — misguided by a tyrannical orange clown.
It is beyond sad that Trumplandia will soon become a fanatical, heavily polluted police state with the dramatically increased likelihood of insane nuclear war (“I will bomb the bad guys off the map!” — ala Donald). A land where “alternative energy is ridiculous given all the coal left to burn!” — ala Sarah Palin. A land where abortion is punishable by two to ten. A land where climate change and hate crimes are considered normal (Cough! Cough! Bash! Bash!). A land where Europe is left defenseless against aggression (“Who needs “em!” -ala Donald). A land where earthquakes, poisoned water supplies and poisoned habitat undeniably caused by fracking are considered “insignificant acts of God and certainly not man” (ala Jeff Sessions). A land where the Confederate flag and Nazi salute are celebrated (Seig heil!). A land where more people are locked up than half of all the 220 countries of the world combined (Yeah, more privatized prisons!). A land where non-whites and non-believers are intensely discriminated against (I’m talkin’ to you boy!). A land where women are mere objects and no of course really means yes. A land where the rich get very much richer and the poor which have become the vast majority really don’t matter anymore except to be continually lied to during election campaigns (We believe you Donald, only them commie liberals are liars!). A land where the police can search you or your home without cause (Spread em’ boy!). A land where crime is basically anything a cop says it is (Va vol mein heir!). A land where conservatives loudly whine and cry “this is not what we asked for” yet exactly get.
William Hui, Clearlake
How did Trump get elected?
Obama actually created Trump … simply because he went too far. This country just isn’t ready for socialism.
Now on the state level if San Francisco, Berkeley, and Sacramento would form a new state (better yet a new planet) then maybe the rest of us could be free again. Free of having government regulations in your face everywhere you look while they tax everything more and more.
By the way, what happened to the 10 women who popped up just before the election saying Trump molested them? Is their case moving forward or was that just another DNC dirty trick.
Brock Throckmorton Jr., Cobb
Not quite analogous
I read Mr. Salisbury’s letter with interest. Reasoning by analogy, Mr. Salisbury pointed out how Trump’s plan was like running a cabinet shop. Unfortunately, reasoning by analogy is a nice rhetorical trick that enables the writer or speaker to only talk about parallels and ignore differences, differences which would invalidate the whole argument.
Such is the case with Mr. Salisbury. Cabinet shops do not have foreign policies, maintain military forces, govern economies, go to war, or the thousands of other things government does.
In the first several days of his administration, Trump’s ignorant, ham fisted bludgeoning of our allies is damaging our international relationships. The Mexican wall is a good example. What nation ever tried to make a neighbor pay for construction projects that wouldn’t benefit that neighbor? Mexico is not going to pay for any wall, and there is no way that Trump can force Mexico to pay. Even worse, Mexico has many ways to make the United States regret any further attempts to impose its will on a sovereign nation. Not only is the Hispanic demographic the fastest growing demographic in the U.S. but also Mexico could lease bases to both the Russians and Chinese on Mexican soil, including deep-water ports. Even worse, Mexico could stop cooperating with the U.S. on drug enforcement, flooding the U.S. with illegal, creating even greater social problems for the U.S.
In short, the U.S. should pick on a weaker opponent if it hopes to win any diplomatic battles, which actually seemed to happen when Trump took out his xenophobia on the Australian Prime Minister. One can be sure that the Australian Prime Minister really got behind Trump’s White Nationalistic, make America Great Again rant. That Australia has been our strongest ally in the Southern Hemisphere is unimportant—as long as America is first.
If you don’t believe me, just ask Trump. You may find getting to him a bit of a problem since you’ll have to walk over the dead carcasses of our traditional friends and allies!
Charles Moton, Lucerne
Findings from the Bible
In regard to the Christian religion, over the last couple of years several letter writers have left the impression that the Bible is nothing more than a collection of fairy tales. The following item disproves that notion.
The Hittite race is mentioned 48 times in the Old Testament. The Hittites are pictured as one of the most powerful of ancient empires, and yet, outside of the Bible, there was no record of these people — not a trace. The critics said the Bible was wrong, that the Hittites never existed.
But that all changes in 1809 with a series of archaeological discoveries beginning with an inscribes stone found in a bazaar at Hamath in northern Syria. This is all detailed in C.W. Ceram’s “The Secret of the Hittites published in 1956.
The discovery of the lost Hittite Empire testifies to the reliability of the Bible. As the years roll by more and more archaeological finds are silencing the Bible’s critics.
Bill Kettenhofen, Kelseyville
