To the editor: The most recent tried militarization of American cities in Portland and Chicago is meaningless, fully pointless and a waste of taxpayer funds (“The Portland ‘battlefield’ Trump describes doesn’t really exist,” Oct. 7).
The estimated value of the deployment of the Nationwide Guard and marines to Los Angeles is roughly $120 million; the Nationwide Guard deployment to the nation’s capitol and now Memphis shall be costly too. As our nation is many trillions in debt, how do conservatives in Congress assist the president’s blunder to dedicate treasured army sources to blue-voting areas no matter falling charges of crime usually?
The place is the outrage over the monetary value of those escalatory actions based mostly on a false pretext and at vital taxpayer expense? God forbid guardsmen are positioned in much more conditions the place lethal power is a chance however with no correct plan of true public security that usually falls throughout the unique jurisdiction of state and native police.
The police, by the best way, are infinitely extra educated and ready to handle home protests and odd American life. The Nationwide Guard ought to solely be used as a final resort when different lawful contingencies have been exhausted, a threshold which has not been met in any of those cities.
This has turn out to be an unserious presidency that’s pushing a federalization of hate.
Anthony Arnaud, Laguna Niguel
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To the editor: I imagine in humor when it has a goal in tough conditions. If you need snicker, there’s a protestor in Portland who clothes in a frog swimsuit, and there’s a video on-line of the protestor strolling towards legislation enforcement to induce them to step behind the federal government line. They really do step behind the road at his insistence!
This small snippet is indicative of the ridiculous scene the federal government has orchestrated as a present of power. A dancing inexperienced frog ought to be in all cities troops are despatched to, bringing some humor to the embarrassing place these troops have been put in.
Nancy Freedman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: “Authoritarianism … creeps in by way of the normalization of absurdities: troops patrolling playgrounds, judges labeled traitors, journalists branded as enemies.” Visitor contributor Amy La Porte conveyed what is occurring extra evocatively than I did in my reply to an Australian pal, who simply yesterday ended his electronic mail to me with “Hope all is in addition to it may be within the States.”
I wrote again that “it’s mind-boggling and embarrassing and shameful and insidious, what’s happening in our nation.”
And it’s occurring so readily, with so little pushback, with a pliant, custom-majoritied Supreme Courtroom — and as columnist Jonah Goldberg wrote (“Congress gave away its energy and received nothing in return,” Oct. 7), with a Congress that has ceded its energy, thus releasing the president to behave on his whims.
These whims are stuffed with spite and retribution. How may the president declare, following Erika Kirk’s loving and forgiving homage to her husband, that he hated his enemies and can go after them, and never have each Christian within the viewers dangle their heads in disgrace? Apparently, the viewers hooted and applauded these phrases, the antithesis to Erika Kirk’s phrases, for which additionally they applauded.
The world, or no less than our nation, feels the other way up in a dystopian actuality I can hardly fathom.
Jana Okay. Shaker, Pebble Seaside
