‘Huffman and Thompson are complicit in genocide’
I’m sure many Americans have heard about our class action lawsuit, but in case not:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-israel-military-aid
Here on my show, “Heroes and Patriots Radio” on KMUD, we tried scheduling a debate between Huffman and Norman Solomon — the last credible candidate to challenge Huffman in a primary. We wanted Solomon to take on Huffman in Huffman’s unconditional support of Israel, but Huffman chickened out.
Apparently, Huffman and Thompson don’t seem “to get” that Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity are funded by the U.S.
Israel’s genocide campaign against the Palestinian people is shocking in its scope and severity — 40,000-50,000 civilians killed. Most are women and children. Huffman and Thompson are complicit in genocide. They should be criminally charged with aiding and abetting.
I am proud to have signed on to the class action lawsuit.
— John Sakowicz, Ukiah
How are these actions making America great?
Right before Christmas the government is facing a shutdown, because Donald Trump and his buddy Elon Musk have negated the bi-partisan deal to fund the government. Fortunately it now looks as if this won’t be happening thanks to some sane members of Congress. Moreover, Trump is threatening to replace House Speaker Mike Johnson with Musk which is a joke to say the least. Musk has ties with a far right neo-Nazi group in Germany which shows where he stands. Trump is a multi-millionaire, and Musk is the richest person in the world, so why should they care about the rest of us? Trump is vowing to fire thousands of government workers, so how does this make America great? Also, Trump’s threat to imprison Liz Cheney once he is president signals what could be his first step towards ending democracy which is something we have feared if he were elected president. Shame on Trump and all those who support him.
— Mary Jane Jennetti, Eureka
1964 flood story spurred memories for reader
Your Sunday’s edition describing the 1964/65 flood brought back a few memories. No I was not there, but in 1969 when I first attended Humboldt State, I was amazed with all the woody debris along all the local beaches. Local entrepreneurs salvaged the large redwood stumps and sawed them into slabs selling them along the roadways for beautiful table tops. Probably should have bought one but all I could afford then were used wooden cable spools.
— Mike Crump, Durham
Questions over U.S. international policies
When Hamas broke the ceasefire and committed countless war crimes against Israelis and others, what IS the “acceptable” level of response from Israel? No one seemed all that outraged at the rape, kidnapping, and torture of civilians then. Nor does anyone seem that upset about the UN actively employing Hamas … Israel’s enemies have fired 26,000 genocidal missiles at Israel since the 10/7 terror attack. Why is the call to restore the ceasefire Hamas broke not ON Hamas?
Imagine suing the Yurok for resisting US genocide.
Where are the lawsuits against Republicans and the Squad for helping Russian oligarchs fund genocide in Ukraine and elsewhere? Why repeat Trump’s “Both Sides” argument about Jewish students targeted for genocide, and pro-Hamas groups being documented in public spaces for supporting genocide?
— Glenn Hall, Eureka
No majority and not much of a mandate
Donald Trump will be inaugurated president in January because he won the majority of votes in the Electoral College where each state gets its own number of votes under specific rules including population.
I have seen writers claiming that Trump won the majority of the popular vote as well, with Trump himself calling it an “unprecedented mandate.” Examining the numbers however, one finds this is not the case.
Recent vote totals show that, out of approximately 156.3 million votes cast, Trump received 49.8% while Kamala Harris got 48.3%, a difference of a mere 1.5% of the total. Records reveal this is the fifth smallest such margin among the 32 elections held since 1900.
These results reveal two things. First, Trump received the plurality of the votes, but not the majority i.e. he got more votes than anyone else, but failed to get over half.
Secondly, although Trump called this an “unprecedented mandate,” his relatively small margin in the popular vote as well as small GOP margins in congress would dictate otherwise.
If one wanted to put a label on the election, one might be generous and call it a “mini-mandate”, but certainly nothing close to the unprecedented one Trump declared.
— Sherman Schapiro, Eureka
