Letters to the editor

Iran strike

Grace Zokovitch’s piece in your challenge of June 23 tells one all she or he must learn about why Donald Trump is within the White Home whereas the Democrats are howling from the wilderness.

Rep. Stephen Lynch and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are quoted as complaining that President Trump failed to hunt Congress’ authorization earlier than launching the profitable strike in opposition to Iran’s nuclear program. The reason being apparent: There virtually certainly would have been a leak and consequent publication within the media prematurely of the strike. The operation depended totally upon stunning the Iranians, and it labored like a allure.

I’m no fan of our present president. (I voted Libertarian in the newest presidential election, since I used to be no fan of Kamala Harris both.) However even a clock that’s not working (and Trump will not be pondering straight in, for instance, his battle on Harvard) is true twice a day. And Trump made the best name on Iran.

Harvey A. Silverglate

Cambridge

Two trials

Quickly we the individuals of the Commonwealth might be celebrating the 250th anniversary of our nation’s delivery. Through the years there have been a handful of trials which have reached a stage above all of the others. However, none to heights of those two: On the high is Sacco and Vanzetti of 1920 and the opposite prison case simply reached its second consequence. Let’s check out the parallels of the 2 circumstances. They each occurred in Norfolk County at its Superior Court docket within the City of Dedham. Homicide fees have been concerned, and a Massachusetts State Police officer with the final identify Proctor taking part in a big position within the case. The pair’s actions and testimony plus proof grew to become topics of scrutiny and controversy. There was overwhelming protection by the media.

The similarities finish there: in Sacco and Vanzetti they have been each discovered responsible within the deaths of Frederick Parmenter, a paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a safety guard throughout a theft. They have been electrocuted at Charlestown State Jail on Aug. 23, 1927.

The widespread notion, on the state, nationwide, and worldwide ranges, was {that a} miscarriage of justice had occurred contemplating the dying penalty. In 1977, on the fiftieth anniversary, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation stating that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had not acquired a good trial and that “any stigma needs to be endlessly faraway from their names”

Within the Karen Learn trial she was discovered not responsible within the dying of her boyfriend Boston police officer John O’Keefe. Historical past will transfer ahead with a chasm between those that imagine she is responsible and people who imagine she is harmless.

In conclusion, how can the gulf between legislation enforcement and people who are suspicious of it’s bridged?

The motion that should happen is a groundswell beginning with myself of elected officers calling for Norfolk District Legal professional Michael Morrissey to resign.

George Ferdinand

Tewksbury Board of Well being