Letters: Death of our republic is the world’s loss
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Death of republic is the world s loss Re After years our democratic republic is dead Page A April Joe Matthews wrote a very moving and truthful obituary about the death of America our democratic republic Everything he referenced about our history and the current transformation of our former democratic republic into a court-sanctioned dictatorial power is so true I feel very sad that this has happened and sorry not only for us regular citizens but also for future generations who will never know the greatness and resilience of our former democratic republic of years which operated with checks and balances of power It is our huge loss as well as the world s loss indeed Patricia DeMore Santa Clara Rise in protest to keep republic alive Re After years our democratic republic is dead Page A April Joe Mathews has officially surrendered Mathews and the cowards in our two parties are as much to blame for democracy being at menace as Donald Trump They fear the dictator and his online army of trolls There are millions of ordinary citizens and organizations fighting mightily to stop Trump and save our democracy We are on the streets protesting writing letters to Congress sending postcards to our fellow Americans and suing in federal courts all to persuade Americans of good will to wake up and fight back If you want our constitutional republic to continue to exist with all its warts yet providing liberty and a beacon of hope do not give up Refuse to go along attend a protest join an organization that is fighting back and ask your representatives to resist the takeover by religious fanatics and billionaire tech bros Stop declaring our democracy dead Will Beatty San Jose State created high-stress candidate surroundings Re Caltrain line in Palo Alto is a gun running through the city Page A April Let s look back and see what may have caused this predicament of high-stress students Fifty years ago a high school attendee meeting the requirements would almost unfailingly be accepted into the University of California citizens university system Twenty-five years ago the California College Board came to the high schools and questioned that we prepare more students to be college-ready At this meeting one professor yours truly solicited Will there be room for all of these new students in the California residents university system The speaker would not answer the question The teachers have done their part What has the UC system done in years They have added one UC to the existing eight and two CSU campuses to the existing California has not created the needed space for what they inquired for and so created the stress for college admission Dennis McKenna Santa Cruz Trump must not treat nation like business Re Key takeaways from Trump s first days in White House Page A April Donald Trump and his advisers are trying to operate the ruling body like a business You can not operate the authorities like a business A business operates for profit A executive operates to serve the people all the people not just the rich and powerful Joseph Rizzuto Los Gatos Country s founding principles worth saving To Donald Trump I quote Thomas Paine in When a people agree to form themselves into a republic it is understood that they mutually resolve and pledge themselves to each other rich and poor alike to promotion this rule of equal justice among them and they renounce as detestable the power of exercising at any future time any species of despotism over each other There are three branches of administration in this great United States of America the executive the legislative Congress the people s representatives and the judiciary I denounce Trump s attempts to take from Congress and the judiciary the roles the Constitution specifically gives to them and not to the executive branch And I demand that Trump ensure that every person is given due process and is presumed innocent until proven guilty Virginia Smedberg Palo Alto Time to ban abusive and lawless ICE As our country pushes back on immigration I write to you to advocate against U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement in our society ICE should be abolished Related Articles Letters Contra Costa DA Diana Becton has made county safer Letters Will California cuts leave seriously ill inmates with no place to go Letters Trump crypto coins and dinner continue the grift Letters Transgender SJSU volleyball performer sets fine example for girls Letters Research funding should not be a cudgel for Trump ICE has only caused harm and fear in our neighborhood Children should not have to fear their parents being taken away Schools should not have to reassure parents that their kids will be safe from ICE ICE is known to use excessive force and abuse its power They have detained and unlawfully arrested U S citizens women and children People should not have to live behind bars without food water and basic necessities just because they were looking for a better life here in the U S Our country advertises itself as the land of the free This country is not practicing what it is preaching by allowing ICE to detain innocent people and strip them of their human rights and freedoms Abolish ICE Destiny Hunter San Jose
