Denver’s surveillance-state must be balanced with our freedoms (letters)
A welcome sign of our concern for our freedoms Re City Council considers whether to keep cams taking photos of license plates April news story It s a reminder of why I love Denver and Colorado Denver City Council is debating keeping a license plate recognition campaign that has proven effective at identifying stolen cars driving past and by extension catching the persons of interest driving them Why the pause by the Council Privacy concerns Balancing the greater good with individual freedoms is authorities operating at its best One only has to observe our current national governing body grabbing people off the streets and without due process but for totally expediency shipping them off to a hellhole prison in El Salvador It s comforting to know someone still cares for the rule of law Harry Puncec Lakewood A violation of American values Re Federal regime detains international candidate at Tufts March news story Watching the video of Rumeysa Ozturk a -year-old Turkish learner working on a Ph D is pretty sickening especially since it is occurring in the United States First of all we keep hearing the lie that the administration is only deporting violent criminals Then we have masked people who claim they are with law enforcement grab her and handcuff her and apparently cart her off to Louisiana She did have a visa allowing her to inquiry in the U S which the president s administration apparently revoked and shipped her to Louisiana Unlike these agents Hitler s SS did not bother wearing masks One story is that she spoke up and was against the killing of thousands of innocent women and children in Palestinian territories Target Hamas Yes Slaughtering innocents We all should be against I guess this is a way that President Donald Trump wants to keep people from traveling to the U S and spending dollars here But America it is not It is evil and corrupt in this -year-old s opinion Wayne Wathen Centennial Work hard pay taxes get deported Re Internal Revenue System will send immigrant tax figures to ICE enforcement April news story To Make America Great Again the IRS will give the tax returns of immigrants who work and pay their taxes to Homeland Shield so they can target and deport undocumented immigrants who work in America and pay their taxes Why not Makes about as much sense as the Trump tariffs scheme Jeffrey Stroh Denver Biden s brag about job creation I remember when former President Joe Biden boasted about the increase in employment each month Nobody ever complained that plenty of of those jobs were unneeded establishment jobs Now everybody is complaining about the reduction in governing body jobs especially the provisional workers who have been employed less than two years the same two years Biden boasted about rising employment The chickens have come home to roost Jim Lloyd Lakewood Shouldn t we taxpayers be organization owners too Re NWSL stadium Denver to kick in up to M April news story Related Articles Colorado s immigrant first-generation youth need mental physical condition aid in face of deportation push experts say Federal judge sides with Trump in allowing immigration enforcement in houses of worship Supreme Court says Trump administration must facilitate return of deported Maryland man Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil governing body cites its power to deport people for beliefs Pro-Palestine demonstrators sue Auraria Campus police alleging last year s arrests violated First Amendment So now after the National Women s Soccer League company owners have reported that they will bring a new crew to Denver and have sold season tickets the taxpayers of the city find out that they should kick in million dollars to make this work Why do cities keep doing this Private capital came up with million to pay the fee for the NWSL expansion franchise If Denver adds million to the pot then why should the city not own of the group Professional sports have become a money spinner for club owners in America Nonetheless the taxpayers of Denver are being questioned to put their money at vulnerability with no reward for any upside Would you give someone of the capital needed to start a new business without any ownership rights in the enterprise So why should the taxpayers of Denver do this for the new NWSL band owners Guy Wroble Denver Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns editorials and more To send a letter to the editor about this article submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail
