May 23's Letters to the Editor

Dear Sir or Madam:

I don’t know who Ed Nemecheck of Lan­ders, Cal­i­for­nia is either, Ms. Fricke, but I have a fair idea why he would want to write the Mor­row County Sen­tinel Edi­tor. Ed could be an Email mill writ­ing the Sen­tinel and a hun­dred other papers across the coun­try or maybe a con­cerned cit­i­zen sound­ing a warn­ing in his once hometown.

Either way it is unfor­tu­nate because it just is not true. It is true that the United Nations would like to tighten reg­u­la­tions to do with the illicit arms trade around the world, but my guess is it would do lit­tle to stop arms deal­ers from fuel­ing armed con­flicts as war is very, very prof­itable. As for any of these effect­ing your right to buy or carry a firearm into your favorite restau­rant or church, it will not happen.

As estab­lished in the 1957 Supreme Court case Ried v. Covert, no treaty super­sedes THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. To elim­i­nate or alter The 2nd Amend­ment would require Con­gres­sional approval and rat­i­fi­ca­tion by the states.

The let­ter is meant to scare you into believ­ing Obama is com­ing for your guns with the help of the world of United Nations just as they try to scare you about gay mar­riage, war on chris­tians, wel­fare fraud. If you passed it on to a friend or gave money, it worked.

Jim Clark, Marengo

Dear Sir or Madam,

Why do the Democ­rats not see just how illog­i­cal their sup­port of Pres­i­dent Obama is?

In the time since his his­toric elec­tion, he has not ful­filled most of the promises he made, despite the fact that for the first two years of his admin­is­tra­tion, he had a Demo­c­rat Con­gress to help him. Con­sid­er­ing also that many of the things he has tried to do were and are con­trary to the Con­sti­tu­tion and, it would seem to me, only detri­men­tal to our Amer­i­can way of life.

His sup­port­ers make the argu­ment that he inher­ited a real mess, which I won’t dis­pute how­ever, many Pres­i­dents have inher­ited messes, case in point Ron­afd Rea­gan, and have come out on top. I recall that in the cam­paign­ing before 2010, the Democ­rats had bragged that THEY had suc­cess­fully dri­ven the car ‘out of the ditch’ that the Repub­li­cans had dri­ven us in to. If that were the case, then the mess should have been cleaned up by that time.

Many of the folks I know who tend to vote Demo­c­rat are either Union mem­bers or their fam­ily mem­bers are, or their par­ents or spouses are Democ­rats and there­fore they tend to vote demo­c­rat, with no thought as to just why they are vot­ing Demo­c­rat, just so they have a don­key sym­bol in front of their name. (For those who won­der why the don­key is the sym­bol of the Demo­c­rat Party, it goes back to Andrew Jack­son, who was called a Jack­ass by his detrac­tors and he sub­se­quently added that sym­bol to his cam­paign posters.)

As far as the African-Americans iden­ti­fy­ing more closely with the Democ­rats, it makes no sense to me at all. It was the Democ­rats who con­sis­tently fought to keep them enslaved and, in essence, are keep­ing them enslaved to this day by say­ing to them that you can’t do any­thing with­out the government’s help and the Dems did not want to give them equal rights, until LBJ and a Repub­li­can Con­gress, passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Most of the folks that I know who vote Repub­li­can, for the most part, don’t depend on what their brother, sis­ter, mom, dad, neigh­bor, or co-worker say. They tend to think for them­selves and vote for the can­di­date whose views most mir­ror their own. They are not like so many Lem­mings who just fol­low the lem­ming in front of them, and plunge to their ends, over the cliff, just so they won’t be per­ceived as unso­phis­ti­cated or polit­i­cally incorrect.

No ques­tion, Mr. Obama is an elo­quent speaker and has a way with words, how­ever words will not solve the prob­lems, we, as a coun­try, face at this point in time.

Thank you,

Darl A. Mills, Mt. Gilead

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