Letters to the Editor June 6

Judge people by actions, not their skin color

Watching an interview at an immigration rally, one interviewee, by his admittance, had been here illegally for 20-plus years, and he spoke no English. Is English hard to learn?

To help clear confusion of why the rallies, I called my friend Juan, who is second-generation Mexican American. I asked, "Why all the fuss?" He explained the fear of Latinos being isolated and labeled as all being "illegal."

Why don't they become Americans as his parents did? He said some Mexicans feel that they will betray their country if they become Americans, also afraid of being treated differently going home.

I then asked him to ask his father why he became an American. His father responded that he was able to leave his beloved Mexico and give his family a life that he would never have in Mexico.

He thought that becoming a citizen was the correct thing to do for this opportunity.

He explained to me that one week's pay here equals three month's working in Mexico, and he's not just Mexican, but Mexican-American and proud of it.

He then mentioned that all races have people that embarrass their race. People need to be judged by their actions not skin color. This I agree.

Donald Jackson

Carson City

Conspiracy theory arises around 9/11 perpetrators

Groucho Marx once said a funny line when he was caught red-handed. "So who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes." Let me tell you what I saw on 9/11.

I saw two 110-story buildings blown to kingdom come with powerful explosives that tore them apart from the top down and the inside out. I saw billows of powder and debris blown up and out of the sides of the buildings. I saw tons of concrete turned into powder covering lower Manhattan and drifting in the wind out into the Hudson River that could only be done with high explosives. I saw the massive steel structural columns disappear in clouds of dust and debris only to learn later that they had been cut into convenient lengths to be quickly hauled away by truck. I saw another 47-story building being demolished in classical controlled demolition that fell symmetrically into its own footprint at free-fall acceleration. That can only be explained as controlled demolition done by experts. No other explanation is possible.

That's what I saw. Did you see what I saw? What do you believe? Who do you believe, the government and the mainstream media or your own lying eyes?

Most important is who did it and why. Who benefitted from it? Osama and Saddam didn't. Then who did? What transpired because of it? Find motive and the answer.

Alan C. Edwards

Carson City