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To The Reader's Forum:
In my eighty-five years, I've seen a lot. I can't believe what our country has become. We now live in a country with a disturbed wannabe dictator. He admires the Russian dictator. He orders an illegal sneak attack on another country, without permission of the Congress. We have become a country where protesters can be murdered by government thugs, without fear of legal punishment. They target innocent people because of the color of their skin. They pull people out of their cars and beat them up. They make people "disappear" into prisons, without allowing legal representation. The wannabe dictator's Department of Justice is used as a weapon to harass political critics, such as reporters, colleges and law firms. He plans to use our tax money to build monuments to himself, like a Roman emperor.
I am deeply saddened to realize that a large number of our fellow citizens tolerate these kinds of behavior. Many Americans have forgotten similar conditions in the past, like the persecutions of movie actors and teachers during the McCarthy period, and the imprisonment of Americans of Japanese ancestry, whole families who were put in concentration camps in the desert.
It is time for top-level law-makers to stand up to Trump and tell him -- "Enough". Maybe we can ask our local Congressman to do so.
Jeffrey Victor
Jamestown