{"id":424,"date":"2025-05-18T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canoeinstructor.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:08:48","slug":"due-process-dismissed-as-the-refrain-of-woke-liberals-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canoeinstructor.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/due-process-dismissed-as-the-refrain-of-woke-liberals-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Due process \u201cdismissed as the refrain of woke liberals\u201d (Letters)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due process “dismissed as the refrain of woke liberals”<\/h4>\n

Re: \u201cTrump’s bid to free Tina Peters shows disrespect for due process,<\/a>\u201d May 11 commentary, and \u201cOfficials target habeas corpus\u201d May 11 news story<\/p>\n

I think columnist Krista Kafer sees quite clearly that the GOP is completely derailed. When I was in grade school, during conservative Cold War times, my teachers would lecture us on the contrast between the Soviet Bloc and our American system. Due process was always described to us as a pillar of the American way. We were protected from \u201cthe knock at the door,\u201d they\u2019d say to us kids. The government can\u2019t make you simply disappear.<\/p>\n

But that whole culture is absent in current conservatism. Due process is now dismissed as the refrain of woke liberals.<\/p>\n

Trump has learned from the past. He\u2019s not again sprinkled his cabinet with as many patriots (i.e., Mark Esper) as loyalists. The military brass, the intelligence services, and the DOJ are now curated exclusively to the right wing. We can reasonably anticipate the next phase. He\u2019d like to expand the denial of due process to include full citizens.<\/p>\n

Scott Newell, Denver<\/em><\/p>\n

Blame sanctuary policies or immigration policies?<\/h4>\n

Re: “Trump’s suit against Colorado ‘sanctuary laws’ starts with a lie and only gets worse<\/a>,” May 11 editorial<\/p>\n

The Post\u2019s editorial is an exercise in misdirection and missing the point. It defies common sense to claim that Colorado\u2019s well-known status as a sanctuary state (who needs a sanctuary city when the state legislature will do it for you?) didn\u2019t make us a preferred destination for immigrants coming to America illegally, whether criminals or not. Indeed, the \u201crevisionist history\u201d is yours, not the Trump administration\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Of course, once the damage is done and law enforcement has to find, arrest, and prosecute those who have harmed our cities and our state, they will do so. The contrary is not the claim being made by people frustrated with our state and city policies. Rather, it\u2019s that law enforcement may not work to deport criminal illegal immigrants,\u00a0thus allowing them to remain as predators among us.<\/p>\n

But again, your editorial seems intentionally to miss the point: The burden of proof is on those who claim that sanctuary policies do not attract the people they are designed to shield. Of course they do, and of course some of those people will have bad intentions.<\/p>\n

Ross Kaminsky,\u00a0Denver<\/em><\/p>\n

Bravo! Good for you! Well done on placing \u201csanctuary laws\u201d in the proper context! For far too long the federal government has shirked its responsibility to establish a clear and effective immigration policy (and the means to effectuate it), choosing rather to blame the states and local municipalities for their refusal to act as the unofficial\/official enforcement arm of their lame system, and in effect, imposing an unofficial and unfunded mandate.\u00a0 Hopefully, the feds will scrape together the political will to come up with a solution to their own self-inflicted problem.<\/p>\n

Larry Ciferno, Denver<\/em><\/p>\n