Thanks BW for helping with trailer park victory
Hello Mr. Editor. Just wanted to personally thank you for your efforts in bringing the mobile home owner’s issue to the forefront of your story lines. You gave Vista Village mobile home owners a voice and now that’s paid off. Also, please thank Mr. Cortina for me/ us for trying to get it right, I realize Harvey Miller had his ear for a moment, and he was trying to be fair. Yaaay to all mobile home owners now that a good Ordinance 8043 passed unanimously by Boulder City Council Tuesday, July 28.
Thanks again!
Elizabeth Allen/Estes Park
Your story is more misplaced altruism
Most issues these days are so clouded by noise that determining root cause and carrying out real change is impossible to accomplish. An example is the Michael Brown case, where a strong-arm thug’s “hands up don’t shoot” nonsense clouded a real murder in the Garner case. As to the Mexican immigrant-sanctuary story (Re: “Home again,” July 23), the issue is clouded, first, by using the term “immigrant” as opposed to “illegal immigrant.” It is important to be clear about a situation where most anyone would be imprisoned in most countries around the world. The idea of taking the world’s poor is an American ideal. It is not a policy and certainly not a feasible reality. This fact is being denied or minimized by Mexican/Latin American immigration reform advocates. This is not Swiss, French, Canadian or any other type of immigration reform. Mexico and Latin American countries have not provided for their poor and this is the root cause of the problem. Yet, how many advocates are protesting in Mexico or anywhere else? What other world leaders like our president has been heckled by an illegal immigrant advocate? Donald Trump and a host of others thru the decades have made the problem worse by employing illegal immigrants or backing companies where slave wages are the reason for both. The only reason his message is resonating is the complete disregard for our immigration laws resulting in a dangerously porous border. Look back at the Minutemen. They were not only right wing, armed rednecks. They were also left leaning students and others of many backgrounds. In my opinion, this story is more misplaced altruism, clouded by an ideal.
Michael Ortiz/Lafayette
Why shoot a young man with only a hammer
I’m having a difficult time understanding why shooting and killing a young man purportedly on drugs was the only choice available to the police. Yes, he stabbed someone. Yes, he had a hammer. Does that mean he had to die? Since he didn’t have a gun, he wasn’t able to harm anyone at a distance. Police could have backed off and thought a bit about the situation. What’s the rush? I believe this encounter could have ended differently if there wasn’t a need to resolve it quickly. Was the stabbing the reason the officer had to take on the role of judge, jury and executioner? Or just the fact that the person was out of control? Was there only one taser available? Wasn’t there time to get another? Again, what’s the rush? If there is a bad batch of LSD around, the encounter with other “crazies” will likely happen again. Let’s hope the outcome will be less drastic and costly to a human life.
William Pollauf/Boulder
Stop shooting to kill
Ferguson police shootings, New York City police shootings, gunning down innocents in Ohio. We were sure that wouldn’t happen in our town. Not here. And yet it did. And it took a young grief-stricken friend, to tell it like it is: “…cops need to stop shooting to kill.” Police Department heads, Police Officers, Government Officials, Community-Leaders all should be able to understand this simple, honest plea. We’re not terrorists, we’re not heavily armed, we don’t have sniper back-ups, in short we’re not the military. This isn’t a war zone. We’re residents trying to live a peaceful life in a quiet residential town. There’s no place for a militarized police force here. There’s no place for orders to “shoot to kill”. I understand that these orders had their beginnings in an America recovering from 9/11/01. It’s almost 9/11/15. It’s enough. If it isn’t, the terrorists have won and we’re doomed to live lives of fear. And we’re certainly not going to call the police.
Sally Terwilliger/Boulder
Broken pledge
With the unjust ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing homosexual “marriage,” our nation has broken the pledge of allegiance to the United States of America. In this pledge of allegiance, that we used to say in school back in the day, we say that we are “one nation under God.”
With homosexual “marriage,” how can we say we are still “under God,” when we know Our Lord condemns homosexual relations?
Michael Rachiele/from who knows where
