Editor,
I was appalled by Nanci Nishimura’s letter lecturing me to “have a serious conversation with [my] children.” She knows nothing about my children, and dragging them into a public debate is beneath the standard of civil discourse.
Editor,
I was appalled by Nanci Nishimura’s letter lecturing me to “have a serious conversation with [my] children.” She knows nothing about my children, and dragging them into a public debate is beneath the standard of civil discourse.
And for the record, I don’t need to “talk” to my children about tyranny — they’ve lived it and continue to live through it in California. During COVID, they were locked out of their classrooms while Gov. Newsom’s children attended school in person. Their sporting events were canceled, and they were forbidden from traveling to other states to compete, while BLM protesters were given free rein. When two were just months away from graduating high school, they came within days of being expelled because they were unvaccinated. Even this summer, one was barred from doing his internship in person due to “safety concerns” sparked by rioters cheered on by Democrats. My kids experienced firsthand what it means to be punished and excluded by a government that applies rules selectively.
So spare me the sanctimony. I speak out because I don’t want my kids, or anyone else’s, to grow up in a state where political elites set one standard for themselves and another for ordinary families. We can debate Proposition 50 without crossing into personal attacks. If you truly care about democracy, you should know better.
Grace Xuereb
Burlingame
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(3) comments
Thanks for your letter, Ms. Xuereb, and your reminders of the tyranny we suffered under wannabe dictator Newsom. Let’s not forget Newsom’s (and other Democrats) mantra - rules for thee but not for me. How about Newsom signing virtue signaling legislation to unmask Feds but allow Antifa and protesters to remain masked? Meanwhile, how many permits have been allowed for those 17,000 homeowners whose houses burned to the ground during Southern California fires? Newsom doesn’t care. His house wasn’t one of them.
Ms. Xuereb; Your ignorance about the Covid shut down is so obvious. You forgot that the Covid shut down in California is probably the main reason you and your children are still alive after Covid. Yet, you right-wingers think that you know more than the professional doctors and health care experts during and after the Covid pandemic. Just be thankful you and your kids are still alive and thriving after the Covid shut down, instead of complaining about it. How pathetic.
Apparently, Mike O. found a need for personal attacks. Hey Mike O., do you and your fellow left-wingers think they know more than the professional doctors and health care experts than RFK Jr. and his HHS panel? If yes, hypocrisy abounds. If no, why are you against RFK Jr. and his HHS panel ending funding for mRNA development and their advice for pregnant users to refrain from using Tylenol? You can’t have it both ways.
The bigger question is: how can we take anything you write seriously? You don’t want to accept the fact (even by the left wing press) that Obama put kids in cages and Pelosi, through her admitted dereliction of duty, failed to protect the Capitol from a so-called insurrection. You didn’t believe, until last week, that the US Constitution protects individual liberties when everyone under the sun can quickly and easily do a simple search for “does the constitution protect individual liberties” and find out that yep, the US Constitution protects individual liberties. If you’re willing to lie about those facts, what else are you willing to lie about? Have a Trump-tastic day!
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