If you prefer facts over fearmongering, feel free to ignore Jennifer Zeiter’s latest letter to the editor. I believe the founder of the Greater Laguna Beach Republican Club of MAGA extremists shamelessly follows the party playbook with her fact-free, cherry-picking assertions about crime in America. A simple Google search will confirm that violent crime has declined by well over 50 percent since the 1990s. (There was a blip in 2020 during the pandemic when Trump was in office.) She’s also cruelly wrong about immigrants, legal or not. Studies for years have shown that they are less likely than US-born citizens to be incarcerated for committing crimes. They don’t eat pets, either.
Chris Quilter, Laguna Beach
Fact over fiction is always where the truth can be found. We can disagree about many things as long as we are disagreeing based on facts. Bending truth to fit your personal narrative never results in changing anyone’s mind. It only goes to add vitriol to an already divided nation.
Thank you very much, Chris Quilter for immediately challenging and correcting the flagrant lies underlain by racism that have become the idiom of that avatar of all MAGA fears, Donald Trump.
As the grandchild of Japanese immigrants, as a woman and as a woman of color, this MAGA descent into propaganda and indoctrination is shocking. It has to be stopped.
There is a vast difference between Ms. Zeiterʻs canards and the Opinion piece in this weekʻs issue by Emile Monda who, it appears, is or was also a member of the LB Republicans.
His commentary, like his wife Micheleʻs, invites dialogue.
I would urge him to read MacArthur Fellow and Harvard political scientistʻs recent column on what should have been said at that House hearing: https://wapo.st/3zu3fuw
Her name is Danielle Allen, PhD.
Good Grief..are we living in the dark ages and relying on opposition to the enlightened, that crime is not a problem and facts are not facts and the woman of color deal is so overblown I can’t help but bring it up, what does that mean? that you are better than anyone else or like what????? I have never seen such radical letters in my life, what do you people ingest media wise, good God, please enlighten yourselves with reality , please for the rest of humanity. So Mr. Quilter writes a nasty letter about Jennifer Zeiter expressing her opinion which is different then the zealots that flew down to say, everything is really wonderful in the universe as long as it comes from Harvard??!! LOL ,I am so blown away by the response that crime (which is a fact) has blown out of control and the demonization of Trump which on the media the letter writers depend on is totally false. Well, no wonder we have the city we do and the council we have..as long as you can OSTRACIZE community members that do not follow the agenda, and as long as you can separate different view points, you have completed what they want..no communication/separation. there is definitely a agenda in this town by those that oppose those that don’t agree. Bringing up Emil Monda with the placard that he is a Republican and therefore should not be heard is mind boggling. The nicest man/human that does many things for this town as do many of the people,like Jennifer Zeiter’ the separatists continue to miline those that don’t agree. Your points of reference are totally tainted, I suggest you look at other view points that are not regular media and broaden your perspectives..It would so help our town and the relationships within the town…trashing people is just not cool because they don’t agree with you and certainly a form of censorship that you all seem to approve of…God help America!