Letter to the Editor: It’s not ‘reasonable’ to support DHS killings

Published 1:00 pm Tuesday, March 31, 2026

I have to congratulate Mr Jerome Loran for writing the most vacuous letter of the week (“President Trump struck while the iron was hot,” published March 25): no small feat when Jon Buss is in the running!

Mr. Loran has expressed neither support nor opposition to the actual position espoused by the protestors. I’m left curious about Mr Loran’s perfectly “rationally reasoned” perspective on all of the extrajudicial killings committed by the DHS.

I have the same thought every time I see someone claim that their decisions are purely rational: why are you alive? Do you make an effort to stay alive? Do you think anyone is entitled to take your life from you? Do you think other people are entitled to their lives? Under what rationale? I do hope that you, Mr. Loran, won’t stoop to citing religion after all that faff about how reasonable you are.

Have you heard about Chaofeng Ge, a disabled man lynched by the DHS? His brother compared him to Forrest Gump and said, “he was easy to manipulate. If you were friendly to him, he’d do whatever you told him to do, even if he just met you.” (“How $154.62 in Gift Card Fraud Led to a Man’s Death in ICE Detention,” documentedny.com, March 13 2026)

I am blinded by incandescent rage over it all. How could his killing be just? How could anyone even tacitly support it? You are, Mr. Loran, when you attack without qualification the children decrying the people who murdered him. Did Chaofeng Ge deserve to die? Or, perhaps, do the angry children have a point? And if so, why did you attack them without acknowledging that?

Nancy Butler

Enumclaw