LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net
Montecito Museum Needs Volunteers
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uring a recent meeting of the Montecito Museum, it became apparent that we are growing and need help. The Montecito Museum has need for two volunteers to work on specific projects over the summer months. We seek a volunteer with good organizational skills to assist our board and secretary in a variety of operational tasks. Also, we have need for a person to help update and populate our website, now under construction. Those interested can contact Anne Christensen at a.christensen1875@ gmail.com Dana Newquist Montecito
other innocent wildlife in danger, owls and hawks in particular, as well as neighborhood cats and dogs. My own sweet little cat died a terrible and painful death at the emergency vet’s as a result of a neighbor using poison to kill gophers. There are traps on the market that do a much more humane and safe job. Please use them instead!! Gophers have a range of up to 700 yards, so thinking you are only limiting poison to your own yard is quite mistaken. Even if you do not have pets, you are putting your neighbors’ animals at risk. Thank you. Lyn Gianni Montecito
Use Traps, Not Poison
Wise Words
Gophers seem to be busier than ever now. Just a reminder: using poison to control them is a very, very bad idea. You may kill some gophers that way, but you also put
Thank you for carrying the columns and other writings of Ashleigh Brilliant. You must feel like Maxwell Perkins publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald. Or you must feel
like the basketball team with LeBron James on its roster. Because I live in Colorado, I read Mr. Brilliant’s work on the Internet. Bob Askey Longmont, Colorado
Only “Liberals” Need Apply
Donald Trump is president of the United States. Almost half the Americans that voted cast their ballots for him. Now we have a media that abhors our president. So what do they do? They keep up a constant barrage of negative stories and half-truths about him in order to sway public opinion. Information of a biased or misleading nature to publicize a particular political point of view is called propaganda. So, we have the extremely powerful media inundating us with propaganda to sway our opinion. Trump has called the media “the enemy of the people.” I truly believe that is a correct characterization. We need to be careful, or the media will dictate to us who can and can’t be president of the United States. That means they will only allow a liberal or progressive to be president. This is an example of what [Nikita] Khrushchev meant when he said: “America will fall without a shot
being fired. It will fall from within.” He just needed to add “with the media’s help.” Stuart Chapman Carpinteria (Editor’s note: Though the media often deserves to be treated with the same kind of contempt it has shown toward President Trump, I’d be a little cautious about using a phrase like “enemy of the people.” Too many have been arrested, jailed, assassinated, and/or put to death for being labeled as such by unscrupulous regimes around the world. – J.B.)
Killing the President
New York City’s “Shakespeare in the Park” is rendering its modern version of Julius Caesar every night through June 18 for the edification and emotional nurturing of its farleft followers. A “Caesar” made deliberately to look like President Trump is pummeled, beaten, and killed six or seven nights a week in Central Park. The same people who used to decry extreme violence on TV or in Hollywood, because it gives rise in some people to copy behavior they see in works of art in real life, are the first line of defense of such murderous political filth. It all depends
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• The Voice of the Village •
15 – 22 June 2017