Letters to the Editor: Feb. 1, 2022
Why don’t the police associations demand gun control?
Where’s a cop (union) when you need one?
As the daughter of a career law enforcement officer (an FBI agent and a police chief), this question has come to mind more than a dozen times across the past few years, as in: Where’s their support for reasonable gun control measures like closing the gun-show loophole, or the Charleston loophole, or repealing gun manufacturer immunity, or restoring the ban on the sale of assault weapons?
Now it bubbles up again, as the New York Police Department mourns the assassination of two of its officers by a repeat felon offender with a stolen Glock illegally equipped with a high-capacity magazine that held an additional 40 rounds.
Why don’t the Police Benevolent Foundation and the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police step up and demand reasonable gun control measures?
Next time any of the telemarketers raising money for these organizations cold-call you for donations, ask them. And then hang up.
Donna Dupuy, Stuart
Is America broken?
In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln talked about the challenge of ensuring “that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” If the end of democracy sounds unlikely, you should read some history. What’s more unlikely is that democracy existed at all for even part of the last 250 years in America. It’s also important to remember that for some of our citizens it never existed.
Today is not 1860. We don’t have a region of our country that depends upon total suppression of a large labor underclass for its livelihood. Today we have a corporate oligarchy that depends on dividing a “free” electorate to amass power. So, we are divided, captivated and exploited by the daily outrages of the left and right fed to us through the ubiquitous LED screens that fill our view.
Will Americans, once again anticipating fortune and glory by fighting for their “cause,” force us into the kind of suffering and destruction that fills the history books? Will the lying, lawlessness and violence that we see all around us escalate exponentially? Will global forces take advantage of our divisions to expand empires? Has it already started? How bad will it get?
Change can come quickly, but it doesn’t come without warning. Every disruption and every crisis creates opportunities for new leadership. If the violence escalates, and America becomes a house on fire, will we have leaders who grab a bucket of water and work to build a new home? Or will they just steal the silverware and leave our nation to the tyranny of the elements?
The last few years have indicated to me that there are many people in our country who are eyeing the knives and forks.
Jerry DeSantis, Stuart
St. Lucie Medical Center has long been our hospital — and is more so now
My husband had three hip operations and a bone infection since late August. These were complications due to a muscle disease.
St. Lucie Medical Center has always been our hospital, but never more so than now. The care from the infectious disease specialists, our Ortho Group, the cleaning staff, and top points to the Nursing staff, was attentive and thorough. My husband is still going to physical therapy, now outpatient, but the hospital PT group was wonderful.
As usual, we were very proactive in dealing with his care, but they all were responsive and we are grateful. They deserve the high national and state ratings they have gotten. Food service worked hard to get him to eat. Amazing, and underrated locally.
Eileen Schoenberg, Fort Pierce
Democrats have game plan to keep themselves in power
The Democrats’ game plan to ensure themselves permanent power and to “change the U.S. forever” is now painfully clear. President Biden’s border policy, while being described as a failure, is actually a success for them. Over 2 million migrants from some 60 countries poured over our southern border last year and an unknown number of them have been resettled all over the country under the cloak of darkness by our government, all expenses paid by the taxpayers. If the Democrats can’t control the voters in the United States, they’ll import voters they can.
To that end, California is now proposing universal health care for everyone, legal or not. New York City is about to allow more than 800,000 non-citizens to vote in local elections. Banging the drum of “voter suppression,” Democrats were pushing a bill that would change voting in this country from constitutionally mandated state laws to a monolithic federal law that would, among other things, not require proof of voter eligibility.
Biden swore an oath to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of this country. He has violated every one of those commitments. If that’s not an impeachable offense, I can’t imagine what would be. Sen. Chuck Schumer was more forthright when he said that with majorities in both houses of Congress “we will change the U.S. forever.” When Republicans regain the House and Senate in 2022, I hope they will push for impeachment with the same vigor the Democrats did when President Trump was in office. Biden might not even be in office then, but millions of people will be in this country illegally.
Thank God for Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. Give them the strength to hold up against the continuous abuse and threats heaped on them by their party.
Wig Sherman, Vero Beach
This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Letters to the Editor: Feb. 1, 2022
