CENSORSHIP: Events demand comment

Concerning Friday’s article by Cornell Clayton apparently advocating censorship of conservative views: He cites a climate of “heated exaggeration” and “conspiratorial fantasy.” Here are just a few of the many disturbing events giving rise to the letters he deplores:

Mexican President Lopez Obrador may call in the National Guard to the state of Jalisco to try to control increasing Cartel activity. Guadalajara’s La Nueva Generation is jockeying with other cartels for exploitation of the myriads of people coming through Mexico heading north. Thousands of children are being kept in crowded holding pens, to which Health Departments and legislators are being denied access. Many more are being released into the U.S., often without COVID testing, and drug smuggling is increasing.

Critical Race Theory is being taught in schools, and parents who object, for example in a Washington, D.C., suburb, are being put on a “hit list.” Radical sex education is being imposed on children from primary school on. L.A. teachers have not been in class for a year, may even receive a bonus, and refuse to return unless such radical demands as defunding the police are met.

Censorship is in full force: Dr. Seuss and Dumbo are deemed dangerous for our children, yet Grammy Awards including obscene pole dancing and sexual references are rated “G.” Chinese Communist type cancel culture, with forced public apologies, is increasingly frequent.

The Press was extremely vocal on the terrible attack on Congress while ignoring nine months of nearly nightly attacks by Antifa and other left-wing groups in many cities.

It is this atmosphere which has caused the attitudes which Cornell Clayton wants to silence.

MIRIAM OWENS

Coeur d’Alene