Letters: The military serves the people, not Donald Trump
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Military serves the people not the president As a veteran of the Marines I took an oath to defend the Constitution Nowadays I see that oath under threat not from foreign enemies but from rising authoritarianism at home Peaceful protesters are being met with force Marines are being treated as tools of political intimidation Meanwhile the same leaders who are cutting Veterans Affairs dare to call themselves pro-veteran I didn t serve for a president I served for the people and I m speaking out to defend democracy before it s too late Samantha Ibarra Concord Intimidation tactics should get fair reporting Re Padilla taken down out of news briefing Page A June Your article June left me extremely disappointed with my subscription to your paper You seem to be treating MAGA with kid gloves Donald Trump is tearing apart our democracy treating U S senators with violence As Sen Alex Padilla reported If I am treated this way imagine how hard-working farmworkers day laborers are treated by this regime Catherine Egelhoff Alameda With EPA neutered cities must step up Re City fined K for release of sewage into bay Page B June Richmond s fine for inadequate water healing is not an isolated instance instead water districts have been negligent for years Take EBMUD for example it has been fined multiple times over the past fifteen years As this article rightly mentions I worry about how state and federal agencies will enforce provisions and settlements to discourage similar plant negligence in the future However even that is ambiguous From an initial reading of the settlement document there are no guidelines for how the district will avoid contamination in the future Moreover federal enforcement seems unlikely the EPA has undergone considerable layoffs and budget cuts limiting the information it can devote to enforcement If our agencies can t regulate then we as a general need to push for more concrete action to address this predicament Aayush Gandhi Dublin EPA is choosing profit over the milieu Re EPA leader is seeking to repeal conditions regulations Page A June As a progressive faith leader I write with concern about the EPA s proposed rollback of environmental protections disclosed June This represents a moral failure abandoning our sacred duty to protect the vulnerable Our faith calls us to be stewards of creation and guardians of our neighbors well-being The EPA s proposal to eliminate greenhouse gas limits and weaken mercury controls will cause premature deaths and increased cancer brain damage and birth defects Mercury particularly harms growing fetuses and children EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin presents a false choice between business sector and milieu True prosperity cannot be built on others suffering or creation s degradation Calling situation action a cult while implementing harmful policies abandons scientific evidence We betray future generations by removing protections when we should accelerate circumstances action What will we tell our children when they ask why we chose profits over clean air Laurie Manning San Leandro Column obscures Trump s malfeasance Re Trump-Newsom clash over protests feeds their interests Page A June Related Articles Letters Valley Water s plan for Pacheco Dam is out of date Letters Civil disobedience is as significant in current times as ever Letters South Bay ICE raids are targeting hard-working people Letters Delta Conveyance Project will assure Tri-Valley water supply Letters California leaders must help residents fireproof homes In Dan Walter s opinion piece June he suggests that Donald Trump s escalation of violence in search of dictatorial powers through intimidation and fear and Gavin Newsom s calling this out in a defense of democracy is exclusively a tit-for-tat play for the attention of an uninformed constituents It is becoming more and more obvious that Trump is trying to tear down the guardrails of civil society trash the Constitution and eliminate all opposition If Newsom were not to have expressed his strong powerful and articulate opposition to this despicable behavior he would not be doing his job The East Bay Times must not be afraid to illuminate the fact that Trump is a mortal danger to our democratic way of life Kanda Alahan Concord
