SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 12.25.2023
On Christmas day I should take a day off from politics.
However that is not possible.
Particularly when I read the spot on the letter to the editor in the San Francisco Chronicle. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Letter to the Editor – 12.25.2023 – Catherine Cusic, San Francisco
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins recently told us homeless people needed to be made to feel “uncomfortable” (S.F. DA Brooke Jenkins faces blowback after saying homeless people should be made ‘uncomfortable’,” San Francisco, SFChronicle.com, Dec. 13). Now she wants to prosecute young activists trying to stop an immoral and illegal war on civilians in Gaza.
She (DA Brooke Jenkins) has filed preposterous charges of “false imprisonment” against Bay Bridge demonstrators (“Eighty will be charged for shutting down Bay Bridge in protest calling for Gaza cease fire,” San Francisco, SFChronicle.com, Dec. 15). Perhaps she has missed the long and proud history of nonviolent protest against unjust policies in this country (Jim Crow laws, the exploitation of farm workers, Vietnam War) and abroad (El Salvador, Nicaragua and now Gaza).
I can’t speak for all San Franciscans, but I do think that most of us support humane policies for those living on the sidewalks, and we support, even take pride, in those who protest against the mass killings of civilians.
As the descendent of a German Jewish family that was nearly eradicated by the Nazis, I admire and support those demonstrators and am disgusted, once again, by our district attorney.
Lee's Perspective 