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Letter: Open state, restore liberties

By Larry Sutter, La Center
Published: May 12, 2020, 6:00am

Each year hundreds of Washingtonians die due to influenza, yet Starbucks remains open, Microsoft creates products and Sea-Tac launches planes into the air. We watch thousands of people die miserable deaths of their own choosing: heart attack, stroke, lung cancer, diabetes, liver disease and suicide, all of which are avoidable circumstances, yet Gov. Inslee sits in his office and allows people to order fast food, drink themselves to death, refuse to exercise; but when a Chinese virus kills people he shuts down our state.

His hypocrisy needs to be addressed. If it is death that he is fighting then he needs to ban all modes of transportation, including horseback. He refuses to enforce the death penalty to our convicted killers yet allows the fast-food industry to poison and kill his constituents daily. Where is the parity between the death you permit and the death you try to avoid? Tell me which deaths are acceptable? Inslee has killed businesses and ruined jobs for thousands in Washington.

Open our state, and restore our civil liberties. We all listened to the officials and experts, we tried the distancing but not at the peril of ruining the very motor of the world. Tyranny is the enemy.

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