A recent letter, “Playing with dynamite” (March 27), suggested that Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) pensions could be damaged by falling Tesla (TSLA) stock prices.

Look up the mix of stocks in the Oregon PERS portfolio, (see Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (OPERF) Oregon State Treasury) and you will find a very diversified listing 150 pages long, and that TSLA shares account for about 0.09% of the total. If TSLA, or any particular stock, were to go to $0, by design it would have little impact on the fund.

So if you are a patriot concerned about the future of our country’s democracy, please continue to assert your right to free speech via peaceful protests, whatever form they may take. You won’t hurt anyone’s pension fund and the “world’s richest man” will hear your message loud and clear.

BRIAN WILSON
Astoria