Freedom of speech
Rarely have we seen such a display of moral cowardice and hypocrisy as in two stories in the Thursday, March 21 newspaper. Half the members of the Santa Ana City Council can't distinguish between freedom of speech and bullying. They don't see the problem with protesters showing up within 300 feet of private homes to intimidate anyone who disagrees with their views, thus robbing them of their privacy and frightening potential political candidates out of running for office for fear of seeing their own families threatened. Meanwhile, many UC Regents subscribe to the notion that freedom of speech includes physically threatening and even attacking others, while blocking them from speaking or hearing any speakers who disagree with the bullies. Freedom of speech does not mean the right to terrorize, threaten, intimidate, block or physically attack others.
— Jackie Hyman, Brea to get but because it returned the decision on their legality back to the individual states. A law in my own state making an abortion after 15 weeks illegal would get my support. But a national ban on abortion is just as wrong as is a national right to it.
— Bob Cunningham,
Cherry Valley causing unnecessary deaths rather than saving lives; and yet innocent citizens were arrested and fined for standing up for their rights to not be imprisoned in their residences or muzzled. Our elected and unelected leaders were not interested in keeping us safe, but rather used fear of the pandemic to increase their power. I was pleased to see in an almost mainstream media like this that “California's ... mandates led to sharp losses in overall economic activity but had little to no impact in saving lives” (Jim Doti). Disappointingly, the growing evidence of healthy young men dying shortly after being vaccinated and the therapeutic benefits of ivermectin and the hydroxychloroquine cocktail were not discussed. Finally, now that all the lies are coming out, isn't it time to stop using euphemisms like COVID-19 and call this virus what it is, the Fauci authorized and paid for Chinese Wuhan-lab virus? Oh, and Doug MacIntyre, Jan. 6 was not an insurrection, it was a protest that got out of hand. It pales in comparison to what happened during the 2020 summer of love.
— Warren Scheinin,
Redondo Beach