Letters to the Editor
Editor:
I am pleased that Mr. Ward (Letters, April 4) has moved beyond quoting 200-year-old philosophers to now enjoying and sharing the fables of Aesop, a 2,000-year-old sage. But accusations and lawsuits against Trump cannot all be hoaxes.
Just because news and facts contradict someone’s beliefs about Trump does not mean he or she should disregard them. Creating falsehoods to serve your own belief system won’t lead you to the truth.
Trump and others herald him as a flawed vessel for God’s will. I don’t understand how people can believe that, much less that Trump won the 2020 election and that the attack on the Capitol was just a friendly walk-through by Trump’s followers.
Maybe we are living now in the time of fairy tales. Maybe the grass is blue.
Jeff Colflesh Mutual 6 Editor:
Earick Ward’s letter (Letters, April 4) started with a parable about two animals that can see color. Six paragraphs are about two animals that talk and can see color, then five paragraphs about them, and then three paragraphs about what I allegedly wrote in my letter (March 28).
His paragraph speaks to Trump being attacked by the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent or to deter an individual’s usage of their legal rights (Wikipedia).
The letter addresses hoaxes, including Russian and Ukraine phone calls. I don’t watch or listen to Fox so I don’t get that mishegoss (Yiddish for craziness or senseless behavior). Jean Carrol is mentioned by not that she won two court cases she won and Trump lost. And the judgement against Donald Trump is millions of dollars. Then the letter claims with no facts that President Joe Biden is guilty of Trump’s looting the coffers of America and threatening his opponents with jail.
As a first-generation American, I have given my time and talent to the United States of America.
Barry Allen Mutual 10 Editor:
Regarding Mr. Ward’s letter (Letters, April 4), I would posit that facts are important, for without them we cannot think critically. Referring to facts as hoaxes doesn’t help to enlighten.
While I agree that the media has become politicized, this is true for both the left- and the right-leaning media. The internet is rife with disinformation. Our democracy is based on the three branches of government, which were intended to serve as a system of checks and balances.
When we disrespect or attempt to subvert this system of government (as in not accepting the result of an election which has been proven time and again to have been fairly conducted or accusing our judicial system of fabricating facts), our democracy is in peril. Honesty, integrity and human kindness really do matter.
Estee Edwards Mutual 15 Editor:
Earick Ward’s letter to the editor (Letters, April 4) discusses the Aesop’s Fable of the Donkey and the Tiger, presenting Democrats as the donkey vs. the Republicans as the Tiger.
The Donkey was portrayed as too ignorant to take seriously, and the letter listed several alleged “hoaxes,” most, if not all, of which are documented to be true in Trump’s own words and video or in litigated court cases.
Trump has engaged in lawfare in scores of legal cases, attempting to delay his day in court until after the upcoming November election. If he wins the Presidency, he can dismiss all of his federal cases.
We need to ask ourselves who is the real donkey and the real tiger in the analogy. During his presidency, Trump suggested that COVID might be cured by injection of bleach into the body. His daily lies on many topics are very well documented. Trump’s cruel border policy involved separating children from their parents without a plan to reunite them.
Trump sided with Vladimir Putin against the word of our own intelligence agencies, and to this day appears to favor US enemy Russia over democratic Ukraine in its unprovoked war of conquest.
Trump’s words and actions incited and encouraged the 2020 insurrection. It is obvious who is the donkey in the analogy, and it is not the democrats.
David Friedland, Mutual 4 Editor:
My, my, my, it seems that the GRF Board has a bottomless pit of the shareholders’ money and is delighting in finding costly ways to spend it.
I have lived in LW for 17 years and marvel at the ways in which the board thinks that spending all that glorious money would just be great, starting with the purchase of a very expensive electronic piano for the rec room, when a plain piano that people play (sometimes) would have been just as good and probably would have been $7,000 cheaper.
Then there is the much-hailed new RFID security system, which cost us around $400,000 and with the purchase of new gadgets for it, will probably cost a lot more.
Most people I have talked to hate it and hate the long waits at the gates, but the board has said, it isn’t about speed but safety. And still I read in the weekly reader about the thefts in LW, so are we really safer? I wonder.
Mutual 12 will soon be having its annual luncheon and how nice that the board will spend $2,000 on it, but then I have to ask why in the name of sanity are the tickets to the luncheon $10 each for shareholders and $20 each for guests. The board giveth and the board taketh away, mostly, they take.
Joan Rose Mutual 12
