Letter writer Shirley Conley (Oct. 22) claims that the only way to have world peace is to ban religion. How simple is that? She also claims that the “radical religious right” is enforcing their beliefs on everyone else. Where is this happening exactly?
In case anyone noticed, since we took religion out of our schools and replaced it with “woke” ideology, colleges aren’t exactly pumping out world-class scholars these days. Talk about radicals. And FYI, the conflict in the Mideast isn’t about religion.
It’s about terrorists wanting to kill Jews. Apparently the writer isn’t aware that more torture and mass killing has been done in the name of secularism (Nazism-Communism) than all the religions put together. Religion isn’t the problem, human nature is. Human nature is flawed, which is why religion is so important. Could you imagine if everyone abided by the
Ten Commandments? Then we’d have world peace.
— John Cramer, Los Angeles
Proposition 47
Re “The facts on Prop. 47 and smash-and-grabs” (Oct. 22):
What Ms. DeBerry fails to mention in her Opinion piece is her involvement with some of the players in the Prop. 47 scam, al la George Gascón, Chesa Boudin and Gavin Newsom just to name a few. These progressives’ ideas on crime and punishment do not square with most citizens who, even with crime down purportedly, still live in fear for their safety.
Just because 60% of voters got scammed into thinking this proposition was good and signed in front of a store, and then at the ballot box, makes DeBerry look disingenuous.
— James Ellis, Trabuco Canyon
Cartoonist’s take
“Presidential tape” (Oct. 22) has a real problem with understanding democracy. One was not even criminal until hidden and the other never was or is infamous except to angry Democrats who want him silenced from guaranteed freedom of speech and out of their domination of their bureaucratic government takeover.
The tape on that has lasted over a decade so far and the only thing slowing it is the plunging dollar, speeding inflation and lack of knowledge on even knowing what democracy even feels like except for what they can pocket from it. Democrats prove political lips moving are lying lips.
— Vance Frederick, Long Beach
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![Re “So there’s no way to prevent shootings?” (Nov. 5): While columnist Larry Wilson is correct about the scarcity of mass shootings in other countries, the real problem in the U.S. is that we resort to violence far more often than other countries. The possession or absence of guns isn’t the only cause of violence; Utah has relatively lax gun laws compared to California, yet its murder rate and violent crime rates are about half of that of California and firearms are used in a smaller percentage of its murders. If we subtract the murders committed with guns from […]](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2018_1008_generic_mailbox_letters_to_the_editor3-4.jpg?w=513 "Re “So there’s no way to prevent shootings?” (Nov. 5): While columnist Larry Wilson is correct about the scarcity of mass shootings in other countries, the real problem in the U.S. is that we resort to violence far more often than other countries. The possession or absence of guns isn’t the only cause of violence; Utah has relatively lax gun laws compared to California, yet its murder rate and violent crime rates are about half of that of California and firearms are used in a smaller percentage of its murders. If we subtract the murders committed with guns from […]")
![It is real on our campuses Oh, campus antisemitism is real all right. It’s being shown nightly on the news mostly by the right-leaning Fox News. I am somewhat flummoxed personally because most all modern civilized societies have rejected the tenets of Nazism with its fascist underpinnings. The barbarism exhibited by the terrorist group Hamas justifies Israel’s quest for retribution. It is a terrible shame that they hide behind civilians and expect a pass for their reprehensible actions on Oct. 7. College campuses across our nation now have on full display the poisonous antisemitism of progressive thought. That thinking […]](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2018_1008_generic_mailbox_letters_to_the_editor3-3.jpg?w=513 "It is real on our campuses Oh, campus antisemitism is real all right. It’s being shown nightly on the news mostly by the right-leaning Fox News. I am somewhat flummoxed personally because most all modern civilized societies have rejected the tenets of Nazism with its fascist underpinnings. The barbarism exhibited by the terrorist group Hamas justifies Israel’s quest for retribution. It is a terrible shame that they hide behind civilians and expect a pass for their reprehensible actions on Oct. 7. College campuses across our nation now have on full display the poisonous antisemitism of progressive thought. That thinking […]")
![Re “HB goes ahead with library censors” (Nov. 2): Well it’s good to know, not surprising, but still disappointing all the same, that your editorial board is another liberally biased media outlet in this state. There used to be a fair amount of conservatives in Orange County. I’m not sure of the percentage anymore but I can assure you we are underrepresented in the media. The column today, “Huntington Beach goes ahead with dystopian library censors,” is a clear attack on conservatives and conservative values. God forbid there are many (if not most) of us who don’t want our […]](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2018_1008_generic_mailbox_letters_to_the_editor3-2.jpg?w=513 "Re “HB goes ahead with library censors” (Nov. 2): Well it’s good to know, not surprising, but still disappointing all the same, that your editorial board is another liberally biased media outlet in this state. There used to be a fair amount of conservatives in Orange County. I’m not sure of the percentage anymore but I can assure you we are underrepresented in the media. The column today, “Huntington Beach goes ahead with dystopian library censors,” is a clear attack on conservatives and conservative values. God forbid there are many (if not most) of us who don’t want our […]")