Gurza on Crime Hysteria

Re “The Myth of Racial Fingerprints on Crime,” Dec. 14:

Agustin Gurza states, “Crime stories are the stuff of anti-immigrant hysteria in California.” He then goes on to say, “People ignore the underlying causes of crime--poverty, culture clashes, crowded cities.”

I am sure that Gurza’s antenna doesn’t pick up all the channels, or he would realize that California wouldn’t have the unbearable degree of crime, poverty, culture clash and crowded cities if our government had stopped illegal immigration when it should have.

Gurza has only to observe and to read to recognize that immigration, legal and illegal, is the primary reason for the “hysteria in California” syndrome that he brings up.

MAX GOAR

Northridge

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Thanks for bringing us Gurza. I am a very liberal Democrat who is proud to be called a “bleeding heart.” Without Gurza, though, I would never have known how truly hateful and uncaring we Anglo Americans (or “whites,” if you prefer) are. I am so ashamed, which, I’m sure, is the reaction he is going for.

LANCE PETTIT

Anaheim

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Gurza attacks “the paranoid Web site of Voice of Citizens Together.”

On June 16, 1998, Mario Obledo, co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and winner of a 1998 Presidential Medal of Freedom, told a nationwide radio audience, “We’re going to take over all the political institutions of California.” The next day, he told a Los Angeles radio audience that California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn’t like it should leave. The list of those who have made threats to California includes the names of the former Mexican consul general of Los Angeles, Jose Angel Pescador Osuna, and the present chairman of the California Democrat Party, Art Torres.

Paranoia is a psychotic disorder. Are we crazy for listening to the words of leaders of the Mexican community, or are we crazy not to?

GLENN SPENCER, President

Voice of Citizens Together

Sherman Oaks