Regarding the Friday letter: “Don’t like new law? You’re free to leave”:
I’m looking through my copy of the Constitution. I can’t find the part about the “door banging my butt on the way out” if I disagree with a bad law. That is because it’s not in there. Perhaps Friday’s letter writer meant to say, “One of the great things about this country is if you disagree with a law, you have the right to fight to change or annul it.”
The new law in Arizona is racist and discriminatory because it suggests that people in this country may be treated differently under the law because they are brown and “don’t look like they’re from here.” An Arizona resident, his voice breaking with rage, said “if they try that with me, they are going to have one angry Latino ex-Marine on their hands. I am an American and I won’t stand for this.”
The writer’s attitude is one of ignorance and intolerance. Perhaps he thinks America is for white people only. I would hate to think that I have very many neighbors in Snohomish County who think that way. If so, I will remind him that there are more of us than there are of him. We will continue to gently but firmly educate people like him and we will fight to the end to see laws like the one in Arizona removed from the books.
There is no room in the Land of the Free for that kind of baloney. If anyone should leave, I suggest it should be people who think like him.
Peter Collins
Arlington
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