Letters: Dec. 15, 2019
Privacy issues do need fixing
On Dec. 5, you printed an editorial titled “Federal Lawmakers Need To Fix Online Privacy Issues.” It was spot-on!
It happens that on the next day my husband took me to lunch at a small eatery in Richland. As he paid, he asked for a receipt, which the clerk gave him. Upon arriving home, he discovered the same receipt in his e-mail, although he had not given the establishment anything but his credit card!
Upon investigation online, he discovered that the company that the eatery had joined for accepting credit cards had the same high-ranking official as Twitter. So, it appears there was a transfer of his email address from his Twitter account to that restaurant, without his knowledge or consent.
Yes, there definitely need to be some walls with no doors between these different businesses, or else complete transparency as to what each one is doing with your personal information.
Frances H. Law, Richland
Thanks to those who welcomed us
At this time of Thanksgiving, we pause to give thanks to those who enrich our lives. At the University of Washington School of Medicine in partnership with Gonzaga University, we are especially grateful for the growing community of friends, professionals and partners in Richland, Pasco and Kennewick who help us deliver top-ranked medical education every day.
Thank you to the community and physicians in the Tri-Cities for warmly welcoming our medical students and enriching their education experience. You are instrumental in training the high quality physicians that we will all need in the coming years, and we are extremely grateful.
Together, we are working to make our region healthier.
Geoff Jones, M.D., Assistant Clinical Dean, Eastern and Central WA, University of Washington School of Medicine
Someone needs long-term meds
....“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself”....James Madison, Federalist 51.
Therein lies the glaring problem; our government is out of control. When you impeach a sitting president on a partisan basis by committee, useless debate, second and third hand gossip, misinterpretation, hearsay, rumor and innuendo without any due process or hard evidence to support (any) high crimes and misdemeanors, wasting thousands of hours and spending tens of millions in taxpayers funds on useless non-sense, you then become deeply involved in what Madison wrote about. You become the problem itself and not the solution, making a mockery of liberty, turning democracy upside down and justice inside out, denying instead all three making this a Constitutional crisis.
In a different, but just as important perspective, this very action is what psychotherapists refer to as obsessive/compulsive behavior which, in severe cases, as in the case of Democratic committee chairs Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler and those who relentlessly follow, need long-term medication and psychiatric care.
Ben Cook, Kennewick
This story was originally published December 15, 2019 at 12:01 AM with the headline "Letters: Dec. 15, 2019."