Letters to the editor: On ‘freedom convoys’ – Las Cruces Sun-News

These letters published in the March 6, 2022print edition of the Las Cruces Sun-News.

A bridge too far

I was born in West Virginia and with the start of WWII my family moved to Detroit Michigan to work in the defense industry. The army wouldn't sign up my father because he was "too old."I was 5 years old then, but I can remember sitting on the front porch looking at the patrolling guard on the Ambassador bridge. He was in the Army and wore a WWI steel helmet and had a rifle resting on his shoulder. His Canadian counterpart patrolled the Canadian side. My dad said they were there so the Nazis couldn't blow up the bridge because it was a very important bridge.

After the war when I was older we used to ride our bikes across the bridge to Canada. Going down the slope to Canada on a bike was a thrilling ride. Coming back was just as good. There was a time when you could walk across the bridge. A lot of people walked on Sunday. We referred to it as "our bridge." Much later as a student at Syracuse University in New York , I would drive to Detroit by going across the Buffalo, N.Y. bridge to Canada and to the Ambassador bridge to my home in Detroit. I often thought, "Thank goodness the Nazis didn't blow up the bridge." Little could I imagine that a group of Canadians and Americans called the "Freedom Convoy" could do what the Nazis couldn't do in WWII: Close "my bridge."

Now I read the "Freedom Convoy" is coming to New Mexico. I said a little prayer when I picked up the paper in my driveway, "Dear Lord protect me from the "Freedom Convoy." Don't let them stop in Las Cruces." Please!

William J. Grigaliunas, Las Cruces

Is Joe Biden a stooge in the secret employ of the Russian dictator Putin?This is the sort of question that Democrat leaders asked constantly during Donald Trump's presidency.So turnabout seems to be fair play.

Trump advocated a stronger NATO, opposing Putin.Trump financed Kurdish rebel forces to strike at ISIS in Syria and restrict the abilities of Putin's Syrian army surrogates.Trump promoted greater energy independence for the US.All these actions run counter to the argument that he was in league with Putin.

Meanwhile, the Obama presidency provided blankets to the Ukrainian government after Putin invaded the Crimean peninsula region of Ukraine.And now Joe Biden refuses to consider opening up new leases of oil and natural gas drilling on public lands, even defying a court order requiring him to do so.Meanwhile, I just paid $3.99 a gallon for gas in Las Cruces, up from just $2.19 a gallon just after Trump left office in 2021.

Was Trump acting as a Putin stooge when he worked to reduce our costs of energy and dependence on Russian oil?Contrarily, is Biden acting as a Russian stooge when all he offers to the Ukrainians are food packets, blanketsand doilies?But refuses to send them the lethal weapons they need to repel the vicious Russian invaders?

How much higher do gasoline and natural gas prices have to rise before people in power like Joe Biden and Michelle Lujan Grisham realize these high and rising prices are crippling our economy, the savings of many retirees, and the value of welfare recipients' monthly checks?

Simply jacking up deficit spending, further fueling inflation, is not the answer. Nor will solar and wind farms and electric vehicles (EVs) replace the value of gasoline for fueling our transportation needs.

David Tofsted, Las Cruces

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