Re: “Freeway protests: ‘Political speech’ ” [Jan. 15, Northwest Voices]:
I fully disagree with the letter claiming that freeway protests are political speech that ought to be protected.
The issue with freeway protests is that they’re ineffectual and, certainly, intervene with others’ freedoms — like, for instance, the liberty of nurses on their technique to scheduled work shifts in hospitals.
The state of affairs in Gaza is horrific, and the paralysis of our congressional representatives all through america is reprehensible.
As an alternative of marching on the freeway, which does little else than make protesters really feel like they’re doing one thing to cease the genocide in Gaza, protesters ought to be banging on the workplace doorways of our Washington state Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, in addition to their very own representatives to Congress.
In mid-October, Cantwell and Murray every voted for humanitarian help to Gaza, however they should have obtained blowback for that place. Maybe the horror of the Oct. 7 Hamas assault was too contemporary. In any case, every has been silent since then in regards to the collective punishment and terror inflicted on Palestinian civilians with American bombs. America is complicit now in Israel’s crimes in opposition to humanity.
Kate Bradley, Sammamish
