Letters: After San Jose triple homicide, stop electing judges who are soft on crime
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor o Stop electing judges who are soft on crime Re Triple homicide allegedly tied to domestic violence Page A Sept I read the article about the triple homicide on Chynoweth Avenue Why was Mr Vicencio not in jail especially after emptying an automatic pistol into the front window of the MLK library in Now three people are dead We charged him with felony counts and demanded for him to be sent to prison for nine years We recognized that he was a dangerous person Rosen informed reporters The judge granted probation in that episode over our extremely strong objection Who was the judge who granted Joseph Charles Vicencio probation It s laborious to tell but it should make us all wonder how these people get elected Surely someone must realize that the liberal policies of these judges do not work The next time you receive your ballot read it precisely you may be voting for a judge who allows a killer to walk Thomas Baker San Jose Good journalism is censorship antidote Presidents have often blasted the media for perceived unfavorable reports in the media A difference in the present day is that Congress is acting on the president s wishes to eliminate the sources of these reports clearly a free speech right the original Constitution writers yearned to preserve What goes around comes around and it won t be long before we have a Democratic president doing the same and a Democratic-majority Congress mimicking the present Republican Congress Related Articles Letters After carveout Contra Costa should get creative with housing Letters Ban on greater part officers use of masks is right move for state Letters Voters must turn back GOP tide of censorship Letters Trump s campaign of censorship reaches Jimmy Kimmel Letters A nuanced approach to fire safety is best How to bring us back to the intentions of the First Amendment The Supreme Court is not helping Violence is not helping Conversations led by the media are a way forward Please aid responsible journalism We need it desperately now Joe Margevicius Palo Alto Trump has winner in fee for H- B Re Trump OKs K annual fee for H- B visa applications Page A Sept President Trump signing an executive order to charge for visas is great news for the American people American tech companies generate trillions of dollars in annual revenue That s great for executives and wealthy shareholders but by utilizing H- B visas they are failing our kids In Chicago the number of kids that can do math at grade level rounds down to zero percent at inhabitants high schools In Baltimore of society high schools have zero percent of kids doing math at grade level Left or right this must stop Charging for visas forces Oracle or Adobe to care about the obstacle instead of ignoring it Hopefully the Trump administration will next cut funding to universities that take foreign students for higher tuition payments We cannot continue subsidizing elitist institutions by leaving our kids behind Logan Ross San Jose Trump s authoritarian plan is unfolding The Trump administration s plan is to use authoritarian political and legal power including the executive branch executive agencies the Justice Department the military and a complicit Supreme Court majority to intimidate silence disempower or concretely punish those who disagree with the administration s views and policies effectively suppressing dissent and free speech except for a courageous insufficient Then for those remaining dissenters and demonstrators when any degree of civil disturbance or violence is expressed or manufactured including that incited by anarchists nihilists or provocateurs from the far right such will be used to justify an additional oppressive governmental and military response Should subsequent civil rights and voter suppression fail to produce desired electoral process results that response will escalate to martial law ensuring that the authoritarian supporters as of now in power remain in power Authoritarianism will then have triumphed over our now eroding constitutional democracy bringing a near limitless abuse of power and public-private financial corruption Steve Baron Cupertino
