Dear Community and Friends:
Enough!! Reading an article published by The Salt Lake Tribune (2/14/2011) on threats being made to Representative Stephen Sandstrom, it concerns and bothers me and all of us who want to have a fair hearing and debate on immigration issues at the Capitol.
I ask you or anyone you know who is as passionate about his issue to use our political influence and lobbying efforts rather than make threats to any Legislator may be favors enforcement policies. It does not make sense to be sending letters or making threating calls. The debate and discussion on immigration is part of our political process. We may not like what they are doing but that is our process. The best things about our system of government is that we have a check and balances (Executive, Legislative and Judicial branch).
Enough!! Please let's talk to each other and tell whoever is sending these letters or making calls to STOP! It is not going to help our cause. If you can't be civil or respect the process then maybe these people who are making the threats should find something else to do.
I put my personal feelings aside all the time at the Legislature when I run into Ron Mortensen, Alex Segura or Rep. Sandstrom, I say hi to them and treat them with upmost respect. Alex Segura, founder of the Utah Minutemen and I for example, we held a joint press conference last summer when the "List" came out. Alex got a beating from his own group for doing the right thing.
Please, Please get the word out.
Most sincerely,
Tony Yapias
SCOTT SOMMERDORF | The Salt Lake Tribune Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, reads a two-page letter on the floor of the Utah House of Representatives just before the lunch break, Monday, It is a copy of a threatening letter signed "The United Front for the Defense of Immigrants." Authorities are investigating.
Two state lawmakers running immigration reform bills were e-mailed perceived death threats over the weekend and Utah Highway Patrol authorities confirmed Monday they are investigating the matter and taking it "very seriously."
Reps. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, and Chris Herrod, R-Provo, were the only two state lawmakers to receive the one-and-a-half page letter, confirmed top state law enforcement officials, who said they were too early in the investigation to determine the severity of the threat.
Utah Public Safety Commissioner Lance Davenport, who oversees the UHP, said in the wake of the attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz, in Tucson, as well as "living in a post-9/11 world," even veiled language needed to be scrutinized.
"We don't want to overreact, but at the same time, we don't want to risk not taking it seriously," Davenport said. "Because the world we live in now is the way it is, we want to do the right thing and protect our legislators."
Sandstrom, who authored HB70, the enforcement-only bill that has been decried by some critics as racist, said the letter "freaked out" his wife. However, he said it was possible that whoever wrote the letter "may have not been thinking about what they were doing." But after his SUV was egged this weekend and his daughter's car had tomatoes thrown at it, he decided to alert law enforcement.
The letter is signed the "United Front for Defense of Immigrants" and features the images of Che Guevara and, separately, a semi-automatic weapon with a banana clip. It isn't directly addressed to Sandstrom or Herrod.
Instead, it is headed with the words, "In response to HB-70 (Communique III-2/11/11)" and references Arizona — the home of the nation's first enforcement-only law that became the epicenter of the immigration debate.
The letter says: " A comprehensive immigration reform has never and will never be established in Utah through peaceful dialogs [sic], civil discourse, or the Mormon Church involvement. It will be established as any other revolutionary changes always have been ... by pen and gun, by word and bullet, by tongue and teeth."
The letter was typed and double-spaced, and Davenport said the team of investigators was attempting to track down who wrote it.
"We're still in the risk-assessment stage," Davenport said.
In the letter's opening, it lays out a methodology for the debate on immigration reform.
"The confrontation that we are calling for with the racist State of Utah does not know Socratic debates neither Platonic ideals nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it does know the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the canon and machine gun."
Herrod said he didn't plan to back down in light of the threats.
"It's a moral issue to me and you stand up for what is right," he said. "You take a stand regardless of the consequences."
dmontero@sltrib.com
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