Opinion: Voter fraud conspiracy theories undermine our children’s futures
Regarding “Editorial: The Big Lie — The Texas GOP’s not listening, but voter suppression is bad for business,” (A15, April 26): My question is: Where do our future children and their children fit into this vicious scenario? What is the goal in spouting all these big lies and conspiracy theories? Is it going to make our future generations stronger or wiser?
I think we owe it to our children to stop this train wreck. Either that, or they will not have any understanding of what a descent, caring life that they were really entitled to before 2016. If we owe nothing else to this world, we owe our children the truth.
George Weinberg, Cypress
Reform don’t defend
Regarding “Houston council delays vote to hire outside defense attorneys in Harding Street raid suit,” (A3, April 22): The city of Minneapolis did the right thing for George Floyd, so why is Houston willing to spend millions of tax dollars to hire a powerful outside law firm to fight against discovering what really happened over two years ago at 7815 Harding St.? The mayor said that “we don’t know who did the wrong thing,” but 12 officers were indicted for various charges including murder and innocent victims’ false convictions are still being overturned today.
It doesn’t cost money to tell the truth or apologize, but as some wait for an apology, others wait for real police reform. What is the city really seeking to defend itself from? Real police reform is not about money, but integrity and responsibility. When will we learn that poverty of wealth is easily repaired, but poverty of soul is much harder, or that the opposite of poverty is not wealth, but justice? As a former law enforcement officer myself, I am not anti-police, but I am against police corruption and officers who kill, like Derek Chauvin and Gerald Goines. Why is Houston, where Floyd is from, seeking to spend millions without implementing long-needed reforms?
Jeff Reese, president of the Houston Peace & Justice Center
Counting stars
Regarding “Thumbs up, down,” (A15, April 24): I had to chuckle Saturday about Houston 7-year-old Saatvik Thatipally counting from a trillion to a googol on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. I presume he didn’t count by ones, which would have taken longer than the expected age of the universe. The show’s producers would not have been happy. Counting by the traditional naming conventions — trillion, quadrillion, quintillion and so on (which I assume he did) — can be done in under a minute but requires good memorization skills. Congratulations Saatvik.
E. Andrew Boyd, Houston
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