Editor:
Canada has shown its mettle by proclaiming a total divorce with the U.S. I would divorce us, too, but like a battered spouse, I am loath to give up my home, family and friends to hunker down in a foreign country, head buried in the sand. Europe now considers us an enemy; Russia, China, North Korea and their ilk, our new pals. Unelected, unleashed Musk is trashing our economy and sending kidnapped residents to a Salvadoran gulag (“Trickle Down,” March 20).
There have been some 200 lawsuits filed against the illegal and destructive moves by the new oligarchical control that calls itself our government — a government that seeks to eliminate federal courts altogether. The deeper motive is the destruction of trust in all our institutions; Trump can smell trust and when he does, he moves to destroy it to the end that the only source of “truth” (as he erroneously calls his texting haven) is himself.
What can we do? There are any number of independent organizations that are creating massive public resistance. One example: Move to Amend is working on an actual constitutional amendment that declares corporations are not people and money is not speech. That principle alone would go a long way in de-Musking the anti-democratic purchase of political power and abuse of our civil rights.
This coming April 5 is the annual Women’s Day March; there will be a rally at the Humboldt County Courthouse at noon. If ever there was a time to stand up with your sign and for your sacred honor it is now!
Patty Harvey, Willow Creek
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This article appears in Taco Week 2025.