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Protesters impede
badly wanted housing
Re. “Clashes halt housing undertaking,” Web page A1, Aug. 4:
It seems the present group of Berkeley protesters is having an existential second.
On the one hand, they're protesting to guard the historic significance of Folks’s Park, and however, protesting in opposition to the try to supply vital scholar and reasonably priced housing. Apparently, the trigger is simply and NIMBY (Not in My Yard) is alive and effectively.
I ponder what Mario Savio is pondering.
Manny Morales
San Jose
Supreme Court docket is
rewriting Structure
Re. “Is California’s gun regulation, modeled after abortion regulation, constitutional?” Web page A6, July 26:
Prof. Chemerinsky overlooks the blatant unconstitutionality of the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s June 23 determination on Bruen to “permit law-abiding residents with unusual self-defense must train their Second Modification proper to maintain and bear arms in public for self-defense.” There isn't any such Second Modification proper. Interval.
The Second Modification really reads: “A effectively regulated Militia, being essential to the safety of a free State, the precise of the folks to maintain and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” and was meant, as Hamilton makes clear in Federalist 29, to keep away from america having a big standing military, as a substitute counting on “well-regulated state militias” such because the Nationwide Guard, which was based in 1636.
The suitable-wing extremist majority of the Supreme Court docket is unfit for his or her workplace because of their blatant rewriting of the Structure.
Dave Whitaker
San Jose
All ought to vote with
local weather change in thoughts
I agree with Anna Novoselov (“Local weather change stakes are monumental for Era Z,” Web page A6, Aug. 4) that now we have clear, actionable, science-based options to handle local weather change and what we'd like is the political will to essentially get issues going.
I'd name on all, and particularly the 18- to 30-year-olds to vote. Shut elections are normally received or misplaced by a margin far smaller than the individuals who don’t vote, and the most important group of would-be voters is Era Z.
I can perceive how they will change into disillusioned and assume voting doesn't matter, however it does. If everybody had voted maybe we'd not have had a four-year delay-of-game on local weather change with Donald Trump, and maybe now we'd have a transparent majority vote in Congress for the local weather.
So I urge all to go vote, and vote like your life (the planet) is dependent upon it — as a result of it does.
David Coale
Palo Alto
Democrats are lastly
getting messaging proper
Re. “How supporters of abortion rights received in Kansas,” Web page A1, Aug. 4:
I imagine the abortion rights folks received in Kansas as a result of they framed the argument as an initiative that took rights away from the folks. This attracted each Republicans and Independents.
Lastly, the Democrats are beginning to be taught that the way you body a problem makes a distinction. For instance, the Inflation Discount Act contains enormous expenditures for local weather change and medical insurance. Democrats ought to neglect the assault weapons ban and focus on The Accountable Gun House owners Safety Act which might, in fact, ban assault weapons.
Robert Miller
Los Gatos
Media ignores coronary heart of
Trump’s Jan. 6 speech
I seen that the majority Mercury Information letters to the editor and editorial cartoons degrade former U.S. President Donald Trump, accusing him of inciting the Jan. 6 riot.
In a Jan. 29 letter (“GOP should flip from path of Trump, violence,” Web page A6, July 29), Chris Morrisey wrote that Trump endorsed violence and had “full disregard for the affect of the phrases he used.”
Why is it that the Mercury Information, and virtually all different mainstream newspapers, fail to report one essential sentence of Trump’s speech that was a key takeaway for me that day?
Trump stated, “I do know that everybody right here will quickly be marching over to the capitol constructing, to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Seventy-four million Trump voters heard him say that. The Mercury Information disrespects readers by not reporting it.
Ronna Devincenzi
Palo Alto