May 9's Letters to the Editor

To the Editor,

The Mor­row County Tea Party exer­cises its First Amend­ment Rights fre­quently. I see Mr. Hack and oth­ers write long let­ters to The Edi­tor remind­ing us of the wis­dom of the found­ing fathers. I have attended Tea Party meet­ings occa­sion­ally and in the begin­ning they were rightly angered by the direc­tion of the coun­try and although I dif­fered with them on where to place the blame they tried to appear to be open and accept­ing of everyone.

Last week I attended to find a notice on the door that they reserved to right to ask any­one to leave based on the absurd fear that The Occupy Wall Street’s might attend for the pur­pose of dis­rupt­ing the pro­ceed­ings. The meet­ing tone had changed con­sid­er­ably, now show­ing open dis­dain for lib­er­als and pro­gres­sives. You know the type, com­mies and social­ist etc.… I have been exposed to all sides of pol­i­tics over the years, but I have never met the Demo­c­rat, Lib­eral, or Pro­gres­sive they describe. They work them­selves into a frenzy over fic­tional sit­u­a­tions and sto­ries demon­strated by their movie of the night. A cli­mate change denier that attempts to prove cli­mate change is a hoax with cherry picked facts and his own brand of logic or lack thereof.

It is a small group and I could have over­looked it all with a laugh, but a few days later I received a for­warded racist email from them with the dis­claimer “I didn’t check this out, but I bet it’s true”. The email goes on to tell the story of a 20 year old girl with eight chil­dren becom­ing the bread win­ner. She keeps the chil­dren com­ing to insure an $144,000 annual income from the state for the fam­ily (The State of Illi­nois pro­vides noth­ing like this). Of course there is a pic­ture included of mom and kids. It does seem a lit­tle strange that the sup­posed Dr. who related this story would have a fam­ily pic­ture avail­able. But, why ques­tion a fic­tion that whips up your base?

I am pretty sure if I were to go to another meet­ing I would be asked to leave along with all the Occupy Wall Street’s, but that’s OK. I can live with that and if your curi­ous you might do a lit­tle research on what the found­ing fathers really thought.

Jim Clark, Marengo

To the Edi­tor:
ONLY BY POLITICALLY FORCING OUR SO-CALLED POLICE AND POLITICAL POTENTATES to uphold our U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion — that THEY have sworn to uphold, but do not, — can we stop the vio­lent crime and return our com­mu­ni­ties to secu­rity, san­ity, and pros­per­ity, and we need our U.S. Con­sti­tu­tional 2nd Amend­ment gun rights, with no ifs, ands, or buts (that most police DENY us) to pro­tect our­selves, fam­i­lies, and com­mu­ni­ties.
Oth­er­wise we will con­tinue to be maimed and killed by the armed crim­i­nals that most police and their bosses pro­tect by uncon­sti­tu­tion­ally dis­arm­ing aver­age cit­i­zens on the streets who are try­ing to pro­tect them­selves (that’s us) — and they (the police-bosses) should be pros­e­cuted for it, as they have betrayed us and our U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion that they have sworn to uphold and defend! — See: (JBS.org (gun con­trol) — and also con­tact Con­gress to Stop the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty which Hillary Clin­ton sup­ports to enable the United Nations to con­fis­cate the pri­vate guns of Amer­i­can cit­i­zens. — We must act now to stop gov­ern­ment and City Hall — and the U.N. from tak­ing our pri­vate firearms — CONTACT CONGRESS!
Sin­cerely,
Ed Nemechek, Lan­ders, California

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