Due process “dismissed as the refrain of woke liberals” (Letters)

Due process dismissed as the refrain of woke liberals Re Trump s bid to free Tina Peters shows disrespect for due process May commentary and Personnel target habeas corpus May news story I think columnist Krista Kafer sees quite clearly that the GOP is perfectly derailed When I was in grade school during conservative Cold War times my teachers would lecture us on the contrast between the Soviet Bloc and our American system Due process was inevitably described to us as a pillar of the American way We were protected from the knock at the door they d say to us kids The establishment can t make you absolutely disappear But that whole civilization is absent in current conservatism Due process is now dismissed as the refrain of woke liberals Trump has learned from the past He s not again sprinkled his cabinet with as a multitude of patriots i e Mark Esper as loyalists The military brass the intelligence services and the DOJ are now curated exclusively to the right wing We can reasonably anticipate the next phase He d like to expand the denial of due process to include full citizens Scott Newell Denver Blame sanctuary policies or immigration policies Re Trump s suit against Colorado sanctuary laws starts with a lie and only gets worse May editorial The Post s editorial is an exercise in misdirection and missing the point It defies common sense to claim that Colorado s well-known status as a sanctuary state who demands a sanctuary city when the state legislature will do it for you didn t make us a preferred destination for immigrants coming to America illegally whether criminals or not Indeed the revisionist history is yours not the Trump administration s Of unit once the damage is done and law enforcement has to find arrest and prosecute those who have harmed our cities and our state they will do so The contrary is not the claim being made by people frustrated with our state and city policies Rather it s that law enforcement may not work to deport criminal illegal immigrants thus allowing them to remain as predators among us But again your editorial seems intentionally to miss the point The burden of proof is on those who claim that sanctuary policies do not attract the people they are designed to shield Of module they do and of module chosen of those people will have bad intentions Ross Kaminsky Denver Bravo Good for you Well done on placing sanctuary laws in the proper context For far too long the federal cabinet has shirked its responsibility to establish a clear and effective immigration guidelines and the means to effectuate it choosing rather to blame the states and local municipalities for their refusal to act as the unofficial official enforcement arm of their lame system and in effect imposing an unofficial and unfunded mandate Hopefully the feds will scrape together the political will to come up with a key to their own self-inflicted predicament Larry Ciferno Denver Related Articles Colorado other states sue Trump over immigration-enforcement conditions on federal funds Trump s suit against Colorado sanctuary laws starts with a lie and only gets worse Editorial Asylum-seeking Honduran mother is still sitting in an Aurora ICE center six months after being detained Colorado House passes immigrant protection bill amid new Trump lawsuit against state Federal attorneys dispute Jeanette Vizguerra s right to claim a First Amendment violation in detention challenge There is misplaced but formidable compassion for illegal immigrants in the USA especially for ones who have woven themselves into the fabric of our society financial system and legal system This allows for taking advantage of the meeting put in place by the former presidential administration where due process restrictions were not placed at illegal entry but are now requiring the current presidential administration to observe constitutional protections to prevent anything remotely resembling a justifiable and expedited deportation response Too plenty of citizens view immigration mostly in terms of the immigrants themselves and neglect the larger view of the net cost Immigration is a tool to improve our country and the legal process allows us to determine which applicants would majority likely help in that regard The previous presidential administration implemented a deliberate campaign to significantly increase the flow of illegal immigration The motivations for this action are likely varied and certainly include the aforementioned misplaced compassion but it ran largely afoul of existing law How is it that a previous president was allowed to ignore existing law with an open-door initiative that overtly invited illegal immigration while the current president is held to the letter of the law and being forced to give everyone here illegally their day in court Douglass Croot Highlands Ranch The real economics of oil and gas in Colorado Re Oil and gas Industry rebuffed by local boards May news story Thanks to The Denver Post for covering the efforts of local lawmakers to represent their constituents and stand up to oil and gas It s telling to read the industry response from Lynn Granger who refers to democratic decision-making as political grandstanding The Post is quick to remind readers of the billion in tax revenue and jobs from Colorado Oil and Gas Association statistics But please also remind readers of just how profitable it is to subject Coloradans to a toxic industry Suncor posted over billion in profits for The Denver Business Journal reports that the top oil and gas companies headquartered in the Denver metro area made billion in revenue for So the idea that we are losing out economically pales in comparison to what this industry makes off our backs Christina Foust Denver Selected say derangement particular say denial Re Trump derangement syndrome in the opinion pages May letter to the editor The letter writer must be squinting through rose-colored glasses Even if I liked every one of his policies President Donald Trump s actions are those of a -year-old and a revengeful hateful greedy person is enough of a disqualifier for me to say no thanks A Dem doing this would get the same response from me If a Dem had been doing these same things as Trump there would be conservatives with pitchforks and torches in the streets Remember when former President Barack Obama was criticized for wearing a brown suit Ah for the good old days when we only had to worry about fashion in the White House Mark Risner Englewood The author suggested that all of the negative Trump letters in the Open Forum came from people who suffered from TDS Trump Derangement Syndrome My concern is that he and his MAGA devotees suffer from a much more serious illness The Truth Denial Syndrome My hope is that a cure is very hastily ascertained Theo Davis Phoenix Regarding the letter writer s comments on The Post s seemingly anti-Trump position the writer must not be paying much attention to what this corrupt administration is doing Ignoring court orders undermining Congress creating chaos in the area and illegally firing federal employees Of discipline inflation would go down for now of unit gas prices will fluctuate price of crude and of curriculum egg prices would eventually come down although still around a dozen but these things have nothing to do with Trump or his policies Listening only to Trump s lies like gas at a gallon preponderance likely gives his supporters reason to hold him in high regard They are deaf and blind to the truth refusing to believe anyone who speaks unfavorably of him It s unfortunate that the media which we so desperately need is reduced to fake news or called biased because of Trump s lies Valorie Manzi Lakewood Donald Trump has become so confident and so brazen that he does not even try to hide the fact that he is taking bribes cryptocurrency scheme and committing extortion law firms every single day yet his MAGAs keep writing into this paper and contacting other media outlets accusing them of TDS and biased reporting While I understand the effort to present differing viewpoints I don t feel it is necessary to publish these letters the writers of which are not capable of seeing what is right in front of them Rochelle Davis Denver Cooking traditions Feeling wrapped up in a mother s love Re A mother s love a family s traditions May features commentary Thank you for your article in Sunday s Denver Post I share multiple of your family experiences especially those around food My daughter organized a family reunion in January centering around a pierogi party and recreating the Wigilia Christmas Eve meal What a pleasure to read this Mother s Day Dzi kuj bardzo Diana Sadighi Boulder Thank you for a wonderful piece on your mom and Polish traditions I m years old so I can remember the old days and simpler times I grew up in a Polish neighborhood Kosciusko Street etc with a very connected Polish family We did all the same things as in your piece Kathleen Skrynski Morrison Castle Rock Rooting against the Valor Christian model Re Valor Christian grapples with discontent May sports story I can see Valor Christian High School from my front porch Well almost And to be honest I take selected pleasure in every one of their losses Among other reasons for years the football group pummeled opponents that didn t have the widespread recruiting pool that private Christian high schools here in Colorado and around the country enjoy The article presents the athletic department as a near-professional atmosphere of extraordinarily high-ended achievement that somehow invokes God as an assistant coach God has great plans for our football club It s more likely that God has better things to do than to get involved with the X s and O s at a school positioned behind a grocery store And another thing Valor pushed out two gay teachers which seemed what Rather non-Christian Did I smile when I saw the outcome of the Valor-Mountain Vista football contest on Oct Ear to ear What does it say Whoever brings trouble on their family will inherit the wind Craig Marshall Smith Highlands Ranch Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns editorials and more To send a letter to the editor about this article submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail