Making the Numbers Work
It is sad how the American public does not mind making decisions on false statistics and intelligence (“Fabricating a Statistic in the Immigration Debate,” Golden State, May 24).
State Sen. Tom McClintock’s figures remind me how acceptable it has become to make up evidence to support an argument, like the Claremont McKenna College professor who vandalized her car to show how racism is still in our society or President Bush using weapons of mass destruction and invalidated connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
It has now become a daily occurrence to make up statistics, but this is a slippery slope for our democracy.
James Silva
City Terrace
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