In the editor: In my adjacent park, there is a “hope and meditation DATH” which includes banks with inspiring messages. One has these words about kindness: “You will never know what others have passed. However, we can listen to our hearts and open to the depths of pain in others.”
That message took my attention to my walk because I saw the United States president who was making fun of the people who were trying to violate alligators in his new detention to Florida (“Trump Tours Florida Immigration Locke and jokes about those who have escaped alligators,” July 1). I see a commentator who describes “Alligator Alcatraz” as “severity of performance.”
Clearly President Forgive A New Los Angeles Times Op-ed at the headline “At one time celebrating cruelty, flowing with subversive kindness.” Clearly, he doesn’t see the message about kindness in our bench bench in Corona. And it is sad, his habits to make wild words and his lack of mercy spread many of his administration and forwards.
John Saville, Corona
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In the editor: As the daughter of a savared of the Holocaust, it is difficult to see concentration camps that the present administration has set up there by saying they don’t have to “run on a straight line,” to avoid an alligator. In fact, is this what we have done?
Wendy Winter, Los Angeles
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In the editor: When I saw the picture of the metal bunks of tiers, my thinking was “Alligator Auschwitz,” not Alcatraz. I know it’s terrible that I can’t find the words for it. More abominable.
Trump said he would take risks of criminals, murderers and rapists, but instead of keeping any harm. Their only sin that comes here illegally many years ago. Others are brought here to parents who have left violence in their own country, wanting to be a better life for their children. Many work and pay tax on US government. Some are married to American citizens. They are now called “inmates” and put in a dream of a prison until they are exiled. How is our country’s siege?
Lorraine Knopf, Santa Monica
