I have a profound dislike of specious arguments. According to an article in The Sun on May 12, relating to discussions involving former Vice Mayor Tim Risch and Councilman Dean Chu, Chu provides us with the argument that "after budget cuts to the public safety last year, the Sunnyvale crime rate rose."

His supposition is that there is direct cause and effect here. That kind of reasoning is acutely fallacious. Funding cuts cause ripples throughout the entire economic structure. Joblessness, for instance, is caused by budget cuts, and one can imagine an increase in the crime rate in such a case.

If one reads the very next page in The Sun, the headline reads, "Program to help young offenders is losing funds," you can visualize where an increase in crime might originate.

It would seem to me that if the council would pay more attention to what really matters, we might all be a little better off.

Donald L. Stuedeman

Sunnyvale

DeCinzo misrepresents
Fremont High School

I am outraged by DeCinzo's representation of Fremont High School. I came to California from a small town in Michigan. I was a sophomore at the time and started at Homestead High School. I was so unhappy there, mainly because of the cliques.

At the end of my sophomore year, I heard the principal at Homestead was transferring to Fremont. I went to him and said, "You know my story, if you think I'd be happier at Fremont, please take me with you." At the time they weren't allowing transfers. But he looked at me for a minute and said, "You're coming with me."

I was happy at Fremont with the diversity, the acceptance. Now, over 20 years later, my children enjoyed the same "free-to-be-me" atmosphere.

Yes, I know, "DeCinzo is a political satirist who is expressing his own ideas. That's what political cartoonists do." But it's The Sun who is paying people to dump this unwanted propaganda on my driveway.

So, if you insist on printing this type of destructive opinion, I will have to respectfully insist that you do not litter my private property with it. DeCinzo may be protected by the first amendment, but I'm protected too: "Littering is illegal. Those violating litter laws can be fined up to $1000" (source: the county of Santa Clara website).

Kathy Noverr

Sunnyvale