Letters To The Editor: Surveillance, Christian Minority and Heroes

LAPD Helicopters
LA police department (LAPD) helicopters are in constant use across the city, and the majority of flight time is not in response to reports of major crimes, but instead for transportation, ceremonial trips or patrols. The flights are a major source of pollution and appear to disproportionately affect some communities of color, the city comptroller’s audit said.

We have LAPD Grand Pooh Bahs and Hoo Hahs taking chopper rides because they cannot be bothered with the hoi polloi on the roads.

The racist coppers use ghetto birds to keep a keen eye on the Black folk, hoping to snare some in a target rich environment, their homes.

LAPD sees too little smog, and must solve this major problem.

Pomp and Circumstance, being essential to the citizens’ protection from crime, makes up a large proportion of our chopper budget – as it should(?)

LA deserves less self-aggrandizement and more actual policing. 

Come on LAPD. Be better.

Ryan Gierach

Read Random Lengths News’ brief on Los Angeles Controller Kenneth Mejia’s audit of LAPD’s airborne operation, or helicopter program here: http://tinyurl.com/controllers-helicopter-audit 

Christian Nation?
The U.S. is on track to become a Christian minority country. This will be because of the decrease in the Christian percentage and the rise in the “unaffiliateds.”

Many Christian nationalists are not concerned.

One thing they could do is have more babies.

They could encourage immigration from Latin America. There are millions and millions of Arabs, Africans and Asians who are Christian.

Or they could put some unaffiliateds into huge camps.

Mike Madrid

San Pedro

Where are all the Heroes?
As I sit in my darkened bedroom, I reminisce about better times in America. Sometimes I wonder if America is the most politically divided country in the world. Maybe it is. America now has a Supreme Court with a conservative majority with three Donald Trump appointees, (a regressive court to the maximum). Congress is totally ineffective on immigration reform, women’s reproductive rights, anti-semitism, or social and criminal justice. Then there is the tragedy of gun violence that occurs every day. 

All of the forgiving seems to have no solution for short-term change. All are being kicked down to a place called Nowhere Street or perhaps Pacific Coast Highway. Result: the most unstable America in my lifetime. Welcome to my nightmare, welcome my mental breakdown. 

I now ask, where are all the heroes? Where are all the saviors like George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Abolitionist John Brown, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, John and Bobby Kennedy, and for some Ronald Reagan?

Surely there is a ghost out there in America’s abstract silent/moral majority who is a hero. Our hero must be able to disavow the overarching conspiracy that American government bureaucrats are choosing to take away resources from American whites. Thus, whites are victims on the road to perdition. Just keep it simple, the world is changing. World resources must be shared.

Remember America, you are the most Christian country in the world. Love thy neighbor. Also, we must always remember Native Americans were the first persons on the North American continent. They are the real victims and were sentenced to perdition. The question remains, where are the heroes?

John R. Gray “Barton Hill Boy Disciple”

Wilmington, Ca