Politics got in the way of justice
Editor: About the Kate Steinle verdict: Imagine if it were you and your beautiful daughter walking hand and hand down a pier in San Francisco and in an instant your daughter who was so full of life is now on the ground with a bullet lodged in her back.
You hold her in your arms and her last words to you were “Help me Dad.”
About Jose Garcia Zarate: The illegal Immigrant is now facing his sixth deportation, has seven felonies that we know of and fired the gun that killed Kate Steinle.
That he was found not guilty in a so-called court of law makes me sick. First of all, after three of his seven felonies Mr. Zarate shouldn’t of been free to kill Kate. California has a three-strike law. I guess that it only would apply to legal citizens in our state. Just think if the law would have been enforced in the first place, Kate would still be alive.
The defense said that Zarate found the gun and it fired all by itself. Thousands of people walk that same pier every day and the seventime felon just happens to find a gun on that pier. That’s like if I won the lotto in North Korea and was able to return home with the money. Call me crazy.
I don’t believe it. This was about politics. This was about an agenda. It’s about politicians that are lining their pockets with our stupidity. It was about political power and a hatred for the president of the United States. It’s about keeping illegals illegal so they, along with the rest of us, are kept in our place.
Now you must excuse me I have children and grandchildren to call. Just in case.
BRUCE PFEITLE Lodi
Watching the rich get richer
Editor: Fancy Feast canned food for the fat cats? Heck, no! Caviar and grilled salmon served on silver platters by tuxedoed waiters is more like it.
Republicans let out their belts more than a few notches after approving a massive tax “reform” measure which substantially expands their paunches — and wallets. While across the nation millions of homeless folk struggle to survive a harsh winter, GOP solons ride limousines to fine restaurants in the capitol city. Why should they worry about the “little people”?
At least some Democrats in the national legislature dared speak the truth about the boondoggle bill. They blasted its provisions, according to a Dec. 20 Business Insider article by David Choi:
“After the Senate passed the polarizing GOP tax bill in a 51 to 48 vote in Washington early Wednesday morning, Democratic lawmakers lambasted their Republican colleagues, nearly all of whom voted for the bill.
“When the story of this tax plan is written, congressional Republicans will be remembered for never wavering in their determination to give a massive tax cut to corporations,’ Sen. Cory Booker said in a statement. “It’s foolhardy at best and deceitful at worst.”
”We are witnessing highway robbery in broad daylight and a looting of the Federal Treasury,” Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said in a passionate speech Wednesday.
A 19th century tale about “the little match girl” tells of a child in London who made a meager living by selling boxes of “phosphors” to passersby. Shortly before Christmas, the child freezes to death while staring through a restaurant window.
Perhaps comparable tales as death stalks the land this winter will haunt GOP solons. Probably not; they appear to be shameless. But the specter of a miserable Christmas past will deliver “death” of a different sort in 2018, if voters kill the GOP majority in Congress.
LANGE WINCKLER Lodi