November 1, 2018 500 AM
Dear editor, Thanks to you and your staff for the good job with The Presidio International, and to all the journalists out there who continue to write and publish the truth, thank you. You are not the enemy of the American people. You are an essential part of democracy and an instigator of critical thought. We need you now more than ever.
Gabe Luna Amarillo
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Dear editor, Mr. Fred Gossien wrote in the October 25th Presidio International, “Polls continue to show that a majority of Texans do not approve of the behavior and/or policies of our current president.” I doubt that. Then Mr. Gossien wrote, “Policies like ripping babies and children from the arms of their migrant parents…” But I suspect he supports the Democrat Party, a party that supports ripping babies from their mother’s womb and calling it birth control.
Joe Cole, Fort Worth
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Dear editor, Gentlepeople, what can be said that has not been said before? It is such old hat. It’s been done so many times before and no one ever stops it. As a teenager at the First Methodist Church in Odessa, I was taught in Sunday school that the fight against racism and bigotry was a lifelong struggle. It is a fight that has no end. Shaw wrote that nothing good ever came from religion except some astronomical observations. I have to give credit to the Methodists for instilling in me the virtue of all humanity. Other than that religions perpetuate evil. Jealousy lives, racism lives, bigotry lives. These are things that live because there are the religious who gain from their continuation. They continue because of the absolutism of the religions of heavenly male gods. The fight against bigotry is never ending. The fight against the chauvinism inherent in the religions of heavenly male gods continues. The right to kill inherent among the religious of the heavenly male gods is an anathema to the future. The absolutism inherent among the religious of the heavenly male gods is an anathema to the enlightened. My condolences to the tribe for their loss. Jealousy, racism, bigotry have homes, have adherents, have voice. That voice comes from the religions of heavenly male gods. Heavenly male gods tell people to kill, the Good Earth tells people to live. Love and Light,
Lineaus Hooper Lorette Marfa
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Dear editor, Sometimes character is a visible thing. We see it when someone goes from being the child of an immigrant single mother to serving at the highest levels of our intelligence community, answering the call of their country under both Democratic and Republican Presidents. We have something special in Congressional candidate Gina Ortiz Jones. She will help restore balance to a Republican Congress that gave tax breaks to corporations while raising taxes on middle class families, took insurance from thousands of Texans, and raised rates for countless more. Now they want to end pre-existing coverage requirements, and spend billions on a ridiculous border wall. Fortunately, Gina Ortiz Jones offers a clear vision of a better way. She’s committed to supporting Texas schools and colleges, including vocational education for people whose career tracks don’t include or require college. She has committed to supporting real economic opportunities on the East Side, Mission Valley, and Ysleta del Sur Pueblo. Since access to good health care saved her mother’s life, she’s committed to making sure every Texas family has access to quality affordable health care. She will fight to ensure we pass a clean DREAM Act, and focus on investing in smart, healthy kids – not a wall. Trying times reveal character, and Gina Ortiz Jones has the character TX-23 needs. We’d do well to have her serving us in Congress.
Senator Jose Rodriguez El Paso
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Dear editor, “Our Silence or Our Shame?” Pt. 1: Our silence IS complicity with Evil! We are better than that — if we choose to be. Witness the man arrested for sending14 explosive devices sent to those the President targeted at Rally Rants and Tweet Storms. Our responsibility is to not succumb to Evil’s seductive lies poisoning easily baited, fear-based human egos. Prior to WWII, Hitler’s economic policies improved lives of average Germans following post-WWI hardships. Mussolini is said to have Italian railroads running on time. But ask: “Is any of that worth devolving into an anti-democracy, hate-filled authoritarianism?” It is always a choice of where and with whom we stand. A friend shared: “Confronting unkind and/or hateful remarks and isms is courage in one’s core values.” Remember: “Our silence IS complicity with Evil.” Pt. 2: Our shame is failing to oppose Evil! These are difficult times. Would any Jew; following the Tree of Life Synagogue White Supremacist murders last Saturday or any other conscientious American, vote for a Republican candidate knowing that involves being a participant in the ugliness condoned by that Party’s embrace of White Supremacist? Several GOP federal and state candidates have been quite brazen appealing to those beliefs. In the same week, the President proudly announced himself a “Nationalist”! There’s a coded word representing “Beware of (White Supremacist) Evil at the Gate!” Witness Steve Bannon formerly brought into the White House. A proud German nation once believed “It couldn’t happen here”. Because it did, we bear witness to the Ghost of Futures to Come. The world still bears scars from their choices. It is our shame if we fail to exercise the means NOT to repeat their failures! Not all is lost – yet. So choose: our silence … or our shame? Respectfully submitted,
Rev. Barry Abraham Zavah Alpine
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