Every time I think that I can’t possibly be more embarrassed by the stupidity of our lawmakers, they prove me wrong.
Just who are they, anyway? And even more terrifying, who are the people who elected them to office?
While actual children go hungry, unhoused and medically unprotected, all causes they could deal with successfully, these clowns take on issues they have no right to interfere with. Then they turn them into new laws with no regard for the fallout.
First, dumbing down our children by allowing a few to dictate what they can read. Now they are deciding when a child is a child (“Declaring fetuses to be people would crush reproductive rights in Florida,” Feb. 24).
If an embryo is to be protected, shouldn’t sperm fall into that category, too? After all, what is its purpose? Just sayin’.
Maybe if every intelligent woman in the nation refused to have intercourse with a man until her reproductive rights were restored, all the nonsense that began with our supreme court justices (mentioned here in lowercase because they have lost my respect), might just stop. Then we could get back to being a nation that leads, instead of one that has become a laughingstock around the world.
Carren Strock, Delray Beach
The evils of some communism
Now that Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon have a legislative mandate to teach about the dangers of communism in the schools, will that include the dangers of Putin’s communist Russia and his invasion of Ukraine?
Or are we just condemning communists that Republicans don’t like?
Daniel DiStasio, Fort Lauderdale
DeSantis: Sign social media ban
The Florida Legislature passed a ban on social media for children under 16 (House Bill 1).
This legislation targets any social media site (e.g., Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok) that tracks user activity, allows children to upload material and interact with others, and uses addictive features designed to cause excessive or compulsive use.
Businesses use addictive features to engage in mass manipulation of children that could cause them to do harm. They contain offensive material harmful to minors such as violence, cyberbullying, drugs, suicide and sex.
I think DeSantis will sign HB 1 into law because social media is not suitable for minors — period.
Paul Bacon, Hallandale Beach
From Trump, lies and venom
I have been a subscriber to the Sun Sentinel for many years. This is the first time I have felt compelled to write to you.
Your newspaper has two readers in Boca Raton who consistently write letters to the editor in praise of Donald Trump. Their names are Neal Bluestein and Mark Goldstein.
I wonder if either of these men has children (or grandchildren) who may grow up at a time when the elected leader of this country spouts nothing but lies and venom — a man who will be a dictator. I could go on forever.
Trump is a man who, besides all else, has populated the U.S. Supreme Court with justices in anticipation of a time that would come to clear him of all his misdeeds. Just looking at TV on Jan. 6, 2021, should tell you what kind of misguided tyrant we would have if Trump ever were elected president of the United States again.
I think the time has come for all Sun Sentinel readers to stop watching Fox News and open their eyes to the troubled world we actually live in.
Fred Brown, Boynton Beach
