Charlottesville

Many letter writers to this paper condemn the asserted lies of their political opposition. Do they perpetuate lies themselves? If they do so unknowingly, by definition they are less culpable than those who do so knowingly, yet they nevertheless perpetuate lies. The so-called “Charlottesville lie,” that President Trump was praising neo-Nazis and White supremacists when he said “there are good people on both sides” of the monument controversy, is one of the most disgusting lies perpetuated by Biden, Harris and their party, aided and abetted by a supportive media.

For the record, Trump expressly stated in the same address that “I am not referring to neo-Nazis and White supremacists, who should be condemned totally.” Steve Cortez of CNN correctly reported this soon after, and was soon thereafter discharged by CNN. See his five-minute video from 2019 “What Happened at Charlotteville,” at Prageru.com. Even Snopes.com has belatedly confirmed this truth.

Nevertheless, Biden made this lie the express reason for his candidacy in 2020, Harris shamelessly repeated it in the recent debate (and was not fact-checked by the “impartial” moderators), and a letter writer to this paper has sanctimoniously perpetuated the lie by the same technique of only partially quoting Trump. Vote the way you want, folks, love what you want and hate what you want but, if you claim you love the truth and hate liars, make the attempt to find the truth, and cease and desist from perpetuating lies once you are informed of the truth.

— Rich Mason, Altadena

Felonious Trump

An excellent article by Steven Greenhut (“Republican attacks on immigrants are totally ridiculous”, Sept. 22). I was a registered Republican since 1980, proudly supporting Reagan, Bush senior ... but not Bush junior. In 2004 I switched to the Democratic Party. The Republican Party abandoned me, I did not abandon them.

The Obama era only solidified my dislike for GOP politicians. In Congress, they consistently voted against some very good programs, only because they were from the Democrats.

It didn’t matter if they were good and helpful programs for average Americans. They voted against them anyway. Just because. Totally cynical and unpatriotic behavior.

In regards to convicted felon Trump’s most recent monstrous racist lie (among countless others), about innocent Haitian legal immigrants “eating cats and dogs,” Greenhut is correct to ask, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

Obviously, Trump and his MAGA minions have no decency whatsoever.

Hopefully, the Trump era has only a few more weeks of existence.

Then, it can properly be placed where it belongs, on the garbage heap of history.

— William Stremel, South Pasadena

Good intentions

As I understand, the Pasadena Unified School District proposes to convert “surplus” school properties to subsidized housing for district employees.

The initial cost of this project is between $500,000 and $2,068,000. What kind of estimate is this? A difference of $1,568,000 clearly illustrates that the district has no idea whatsoever of the financial requirements are for this development!

The proposal appears to be well meaning, but altruistic. Is the mix of unit size based on any analyses? Demand, other than colloquial?

This proposal is yet another example of the good intentions of a public entity being formalized without any consideration of its consequences.

— Joseph F. Paggi Jr., Pasadena

Harris’s agenda

Re Harris’s agenda: You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of it. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything the government does not take from somebody else. When half the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half will take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that is the beginning of the end.

— Gail Shine, La Mirada