It’s been a while since I read Jeff Robbins’ political insights. He has been so wrong for so long but his most recent one (“Trump’s document misdeeds put country at risk,” Boston Herald, June 13) takes the cake.
As far as I am concerned this whole Trump indictment is just another diversion from matters more important and relative to our democratic republic. Robbins needs to check his bias which seems to color his view of Trump.
As I looked at the photo furnished by the Justice Department and released to the media, it does seem clear the narrative the deep state wants us to see is how dangerous Trump has been by showing where he piled federal documents he took when he left office. The whole government apparatus is coming down on Trump. However, I can still also see that photo in Biden’s garage where he apparently scattered his own federal documents around his Corvette he took home from both his Senate and vice president days. That photo doesn’t appear to be much different, tucking documents away behind the Bidenmobile in a garage, or piling them inside a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago, does it?
Maybe former US Attorney General Bill Barr is right about Trump being “toast.” However, if Trump is toast, what about Biden who pretty much did the same thing? What about Hillary in 2016, allegedly destroying 33,000 subpoenaed emails or taking or giving devices the hammer treatment?
Either we have equal application of the law or we have a two-tiered justice system. Getting to choose who we go after means we no longer have equality under the law.
Sal Giarratani
East Boston
The melting of our glaciers and the Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves due to global warming will continue to cause rising sea levels around the world. If the melting continues at the current rate, by 2050 about 150 million people in the world living near coastlines could be displaced due to flooding. Sea levels could rise by up to eight feet by 2100.
Various coastal cities in the world could be impacted, including the U.S. cities of Boston; Miami; Atlantic City; Key West; Galveston; Seattle; St. Petersburg; Tybee Island, GA; Charleston; New Orleans; Los Angeles; San Diego; Fort Lauderdale; Hoboken; Honolulu and New York. These cities will not be completely under water, but they could experience significant and consistent flooding in some parts of the cities, which could make those areas uninhabitable.
We have to reduce the carbon emissions going into our atmosphere by utilizing more renewable energy sources, including wind and solar power; evaluating small scale nuclear power systems in series; driving electric vehicles; and by conserving our carbon absorbing natural resources, especially trees.
Other mitigation strategies are using mass transit instead of cars, better insulating homes and buildings, replacing old appliances, and supporting local businesses that promote these strategies.
Donald Moskowitz
Londonderry, NH