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Letters: Democrats lied, KID project rattles, Japanese role | Jan. 17

Democrats lied, Constitution died

Hate-filled Democrats fabricated a fairy tale to justify voting for impeachment and interfered with the 2020 election!

The embarrassing, pre-emptive, weaponized, Seinfeld impeachment (about nothing) was a Democrat partisan hatchet job/circus-without-a-tent that found no (zip, nada, zilch) evidence of treason, bribery or high crimes/misdemeanors (per their cabal of “star witnesses”).

The president does not serve at the whim of the House!

But Democrats unconstitutionally abused their power by denying GOP witnesses and questions, charging President Trump with “abuse of power” for properly exercising his constitutional duties to expose Ukrainian corruption and imperiously alleging “obstruction of the House” for using the long-recognized presidential right of executive privilege.

Mueller cleared Trump of the phony Russian Collusion Hoax and exposed the Steele Dossier as being completely false! Inspector General Horowitz reported a criminal conspiracy by Obama’s FBI/DOJ/CIA to defraud the FISA court in order to spy on the Trump campaign.

Every future president can now be fraudulently impeached using these flimsy grounds.

“A Republic if you can keep it.” The Democrats lost it.

“And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” (Mark 3:24-25)

Karl Hadley, Burbank

Endless project is rattling her

For more than a year, KID has been working on the canal below our home on Meadow Hills Drive, west of Queensgate Drive. The work has created blowing dust and a lot of noise, starting early in the morning. On this morning (7:55 a.m., Dec. 23), a piece of heavy equipment began rolling down the right of way on the property we own, apparently trying to pack down gravel that was spread last week. This is at least the third time this has happened. In between times, the gravel has been graded off and a lot of dirt then piled into dump trucks. Each time the gravel was being packed down, our house was rattled so badly that things bounced around on shelves, dishes in the cabinets were rattling, etc., and if we were sleeping late (we’re retired and no longer get up at 6 a.m. to get to work), it woke us.

I contacted KID via email at one point, got one response asking for a phone number so someone could call me, but no one ever called. I’m not sure what our rights are, legally speaking, but I’m doing some research. Enough is enough.

Brenda E. Sartoris, Richland

Japanese need to admit their role

Regarding Imperial Japan’s attempt to conquer and subjugate the U.S., Daniel Webster said it best:

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to defend it.

Why is it in all the complaints from the Japanese, no one ever prefaces their distaste for retaliation by owning up to the fact that they started the war and committed some very heinous acts of war in the name of their conquering force? If there were a way to stop everyone from developing nuclear armaments, in that case, Pandora’s Box should not have been opened. Would you rather have Germany develop nuclear weapons first? After all, they discovered fission and were months away from a weapon.

Mary Ely, Richland

This story was originally published January 17, 2020 at 12:01 AM with the headline "Letters: Democrats lied, KID project rattles, Japanese role | Jan. 17."

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