This is personal.
When the billionaire class owns the government and the media and destroys the middle class, what’s left but to collapse into chaos, becoming a third-world country of rich and poor?
Gaslighting plutocrats own the Federalist Society. They await the end of America with a thoroughly looted country in its place amid greed and hoarding. Illusions of impenetrable, self-sufficient gated communities appear in the ruins of an abandoned dystopian society.
Plutocratic puppets like Steve Bannon and the Felonious Trump will destroy the courts, the justice system and the balance of power. Retribution and a criminal police state will rule.
Woe to us all if this is not stopped.
What a disgrace. Our dear veterans of World War II fought and died fighting fascism, just to see it rise again and gain a stronghold here in the United States.
My father was a veteran, and my extended family were soldiers, including all of my mother’s brothers.
This is personal.
Steve Mento, Boca Raton
It was a ‘so-called crime’
Now, the Sun Sentinel gloats about the fate of Donald Trump, but in all fairness could you please tell me what was the heinous crime that Trump committed that he deserved to be found guilty of felonies?
Would anybody else have been charged with and found guilty of the so-called crime if his or her name was not Trump? District Attorney Alvin Bragg has made numerous deals with criminals by reducing serious crimes to misdemeanors, but he went all out to raise the dubious misdemeanors against Trump to a felony through prosecutorial acrobatics that makes Trump’s guilty verdict less than honorable.
The Sun Sentinel’s glee to be able to call Trump a “convicted felon” shows the bias the newspaper has exhibited since he became a Republican candidate for president. This charade reminds one of the show trials under former Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
It’s déjà vu all over again, as Yogi Berra would say.
Chuck Lehmann, Delray Beach
Free expression has limits
The Florida Supreme Court will consider whether college students deserve compensation for not receiving in-person instruction during the COVID shutdown.
That’s a complicated issue, since remote classes were considered to be a remedy for an event that schools could not avoid.
A more compelling legal question is the shutdown of campuses during protests surrounding the Hamas massacre, the kidnapping of Israelis and Israel’s response.
Thousands of protesters were arrested for trespassing when ordered to cease blocking students, faculty and others from receiving the benefit of an education. Those who are arrested should be accountable to students and others whose lives were disrupted. The purported protected rights of expression aren’t so clear when decorum, decency and rights of others are challenged.
What are the rights of those who disobey police versus the rights of others to conduct their lives without fear that they would be assaulted or obstructed by protesters? If protesters became named defendants in hundreds or thousands of civil lawsuits, we might get some resolution of the competing rights of protestors and ordinary individuals.
Sheldon I. Saitlin, Boca Raton
Spinning the truth
No one is above the law. Unfortunately, Trump and his followers spun the verdict, attempting to make it appear that he was the victim.
His only concern is himself, and his followers are naïve to think otherwise. I fear for our country and its future when the rule of law is neither respected nor accepted.
Judith Mkam, Coral Springs
