Letters to the editor: Change in 2022 begins now

Texas is at a tipping point.

Change in 2022 begins now

Texas is at a tipping point.

The legislature and governor have made it easy to openly carry a weapon without any training required.

They have made it harder to vote. They have made it impossible for women to make their own decisions regarding their bodies. It's become a vigilante state.

How long are other voices going to let this continue? Change must happen in the 2022 elections starting now.

Janet Koran, Georgetown

Masks missing amid the throngs

at stadium for the Texas game

Watching the Texas-Louisiana game, I was amazed and upset. Not by the game; rather by the spectators. Thousands packed together, no spacing and no masks. How can supposedly well-educated folks — they were cheering for their university team — be so selfishly stupid? 

Were you or a family member in that throng? If the answer is "yes": Go away, and stay away.

Gary Marquart, Austin

The hypocrisy of Greg Abbott and

the GOP on women and children

The hypocrisy of Greg Abbott and the GOP is astonishing!

On one hand they are trying to control women with their anti-abortion mandate. On the other hand, they are killing our children with their anti-mask mandate.

Abbott and the Republicans have taken hypocrisy to a new level. They want to dictate to a woman what she should do with her own body, yet will do nothing to protect our children against a pandemic. With this hypocrisy in mind, I’d like to propose a new campaign slogan for Abbott and the GOP: Protect the fetuses, kill the children.

Hopefully people will remember this idiocy when election time rolls around and vote for candidates that truly have our best interest at heart. In the meantime, the virus is rampant, children are dying and women no longer have a say in their own health care. Wake up, folks.

Peggy Aschenbeck, Austin

Those who demand their personal

freedoms should speak out now

Wow, it appears that I have been relocated to North Korea, where citizens are encouraged to tattle on each other. This (abortion law) is none other than that — speak of abortion, just consider it and talk about it to a trusted friend or partner and have your life upturned by some “concerned” citizen who thinks they have a right to tell you what to do with your body.

Hmm, this smacks of authoritarianism.

Where are all those folks now who demand their freedoms and on keeping government out of their business? These are the folks who voted for these people to represent them, yet they don’t seem to represent anyone except their fictional base.

I am sad to be a Texan and scared of being a U.S. citizen. Our rights are being taken each and every day. This smoke screen is one of the most egregious of all.

Paula Hyatt, Austin

Lives of innocent Americans

should never be forgotten

On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 militants tied to al-Qaeda  carried out attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, causing death and destruction. Some 2,750 were killed in New York City, 184 in Washington, D.C., and 40 in Pennsylvania, where one of the highjacked planes crashed after passengers tried to retake the plane. All terrorists died.

Police and fire departments in New York were especially hard hit; more than 400 first responders died. 

The lives of the innocent Americans should not be forgotten 20 years later, nor in the future.

God bless and protect America.

Moses P. Saldaña Sr., Austin