Letters to the Editor

Published 4:00 am Saturday, June 29, 2024

By Staff Reports

‘Forced compliance’

As I consider the perspective of the pro-gender people, the pro-pronoun people, I feel harassed. Your forced compliance of me is ridiculous. The goal is not to get me to use correct pronouns; that’s a surface matter. It’s to confuse the population and shift authority. I’m against it.

I can affirm gender identity within this scientific truth: gender is established at conception, recognized at birth, and recorded as such. This is a reality that no manner of manipulation, aggravation or claimed ownership can change.

In political correctness, be it in language or actions, is dangerous. In the effort to achieve comfort, we are losing what matters: reality, truth, education and respect.

Comedian Steve Harvey, said, “I believe if you don’t believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?” Is that what America has lost?



Anna Russell

Tyler

No one is above the law

It’s official: After making secret hush money payments to an adult film star 11 days before the 2016 election and falsifying official filings to hide the truth from the public, Donald Trump was found guilty by a New York jury.

Trump’s conviction in New York should remind us all that no one — including a former president — is above the law. It should also remind us of the danger that Trump still poses to our democracy.

In the final weeks of the 2016 election, Trump covered up his affair with Stormy Daniels to dupe voters and improve his chances of winning the election. As it turns out, this would only be his first foray into undermining our elections. The New York trial may be over, but Donald Trump still faces three additional indictments and 54 criminal charges for a litany of crimes, including federal charges for his efforts to incite violence and overturn the will of voters after he knew he’d lost the 2020 election.

He raised over $250 million in donations to “find voter fraud”, and kept every dime. He knew there was nothing to find. His money has buffered him from prosecution for too long.

This is a pattern. The jury has done their job to hold Trump accountable. Now, it’s time for the American people to do our part and hold him accountable at the ballot box.

KD Barnett

Winona

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