Letters: Democrats, GOP aren’t comparable on election integrity
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Unlike GOP Dems aren t suppressing vote Re Democrats try to undermine voting integrity Page A July Daniel Borenstein just now conflated California Democrats behavior regarding ballot language on state bond measures with the Republican strategy to disenfranchise any and all voters not likely to vote for them Related Articles Letters Transparency is imperative in OPD s probe of death Letters Who will stand up to both parties gerrymandering Letters Is the US sleepwalking toward Armageddon Letters Residents input crucial to expanding S J housing stock Letters Honest talk about Gaza is the only path to peace Disingenuous at best this allegation should be the poster child for false equivalency Suggesting the financial information about fiscal impacts of bond measures be provided in other procedures than on the ballot voter pamphlets instead hardly compares to a nationwide campaign to deprive people of their right to vote And Borenstein absolutely knows it and should be upholding a higher standard of journalistic integrity than he demonstrates in his column Eugene Ely San Jose Motels make perfect homeless shelters Re Ex-motel becomes lifeline for residents Page B Aug A close member of my family lived at a former motel on First Street in San Jose until she passed away from natural causes My family and I visited her frequently at her residence This motel turned housing for the homeless was well-managed and safe If you didn t know it had been converted from a motel you might think it was still a motel Visually it had no discernible negative impact on the neighborhood The folks who lived there grew friendly with each other and respected each other s privacy and space Having experienced this it became apparent to me that the ubiquitous motels along the Bay Area s major boulevards are ready-made facilities to house those struggling with homelessness I encourage everyone who is against this key to face your fears They are unfounded With good management motels are safe and unobtrusive shelters for our homeless Greg Salerno San Jose We must speak out against Trump policies In recent days the Trump administration planned to incinerate million in birth control pills and other contraceptives stored in Belgium and not distribute them to Africa since USAID was shut down Taxpayers should hate to see these wasted and not provided to those in need In addition the U S Air Force is denying transgender provision members who ve served - years the option to retire early and will separate them without retirement benefits Every single day this travesty of an administration acts in several egregious manner and these instances don t even equate to the injustice of deporting immigrants without criminal records We need to postcard this administration denouncing its ignominious cruel and inhumane exploits While postcards won t make it to the top staff do record mail received We the People must speak our voice to these atrocities Michael Fallon Santa Clara Israeli guns try to silence truth on Gaza Re At least killed in Gaza by Israelis wellbeing functionaries say Page A Aug A Brown University description s finding indicates that more journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October than the U S Civil War World Wars I and II the Korean War the Vietnam War including conflicts in Cambodia and Laos the wars in Yugoslavia in the s and s and the post- war in Afghanistan combined Journalists are the eyes and ears of truth their deliberate targeting is not collateral damage but an assault on accountability itself Silencing those who seek truth denies both justice and the common good The measure of a civilization is not its powerbut its quota to protect truth-tellers even in war History s judgment will not be kind to silence Akeem Mostamandy San Jose Israel s campaign shows no regard for law Re At least killed in Gaza by Israelis healthcare agents say Page A Aug On August Israeli forces deliberately killed four Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif Mohammed Qreiqeh cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal and freelance cameramen Moamen Aliwa and freelance journalist Mohammed al-Khaldi with a targeted airstrike on a media tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital This was no battlefield accident it was an execution aimed at silencing those documenting Israel s planned seizure of Gaza Gaza administrators review journalists killed in months U N Special Rapporteur Irene Khan calls out the threat to freedom of expression Meanwhile over people including more than children have died of hunger Fifteen-year-old Muhannad Eid was killed when an airdropped food pallet crushed him Killing journalists is a war crime Starving civilians is a war crime The U S and its allies face a choice enforce international law or be remembered as accomplices in the destruction of truth and the mass killing of a people Jag Singh Los Altos Letter lets supporters of Palestinians off hook Re Coffee shop lawsuit should be tossed Page A Aug I do not know where David Spero gets his information about Judaism but the Star of David is a symbol of the faith Amid the obvious bias of his opinion what is noticeably missing is a condemnation of the pro-Palestinian groups that parade Hamas Hezbollah and Palestinian symbols and threatening language with the intension of intimidating Jewish people I too wish that this war and the suffering would end However a balanced and informed opinion would recognize that there are two parties continuing this travesty Hamas deserves at least half the blame if not a much larger portion They started this round of violence They rule Gaza with a bloody iron fist And they have stalled and derailed ceasefire negotiations more frequently than has Israel Richard Kroll San Jose
