Mario Obledo’s Activism

* Re “Seasoned Activist’s Passions Burn Bright Again,” Aug. 2:

Mario Obledo is an old-line racist disguised as an “activist,” typical of those who pit one group against another to gain power. Even the most liberal voter cannot vote for a person with a Latino surname when people like Obledo are telling us that Latinos will form a “power bloc” when they become the majority, and that only Latino issues will be acted upon (always in favor of the Latino).

There is a law in physics that goes like this: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Mr. Obledo, your “action” is one of these situations.

PAUL. W. BELTZ

Laguna Hills

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Former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso salutes Obledo as always a hero. This is the same Obledo who threatened to burn down a billboard because he disagreed with its message against illegal immigration.

Perhaps Reynoso is not familiar with the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes: “If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought--not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”

ALAN BENSON

Newbury Park