Letters to the Editor

October, 2006

You are singular in that you have put the Constitutional process deliberated and chosen to be the manner in which our public policy is made in clear and defined terms while simultaneously explaining exactly why this is a better system than the "pure democracy" that is being sold as a fix for problems which really are the result of our horrible "public education system."

As a twenty year Marine, I have a fine understanding of the Constitution and its merits because I studied it intensely after realizing that I was bound to it by my oath, and it would be foolhardy to be bound to something you don't understand, while having the opportunity to understand fully. I agree with you wholeheartedly with regard to the specific points you make, but what you describe is more a symptom than the disease its self.

Our public school system is a derivative of socialism watered down and labeled with misleading titles, and as such, it has produced a majority who don't understand the vast difference between a federated republic, and a democracy. The fact that democratic means are used to select our representatives has been used to methodically to gradually move this Nation away from its founding and steadily towards a social democracy, and the education system has been the major vehicle for this move.

It is my opinion that we will not discard the social democratic aspects of our society to return to the Nation we once were for the very reasons the founders threw out "democracy" as a suitable form of state before throwing every other then current form of state. Having found that we can vote ourselves a paycheck from the State, we, as a people, will not give up this free ride because the vast majority of Americans have at least some connection to the problem.

We could quite easily return to the Constitutional Republic we were for a short time, but it would require a great change in our education system, and the fervent desire to change back in the majority of the people. I don't see our "public education system" going away any time soon, and every bit of it has a vested interest in keeping things going towards a social democracy in name as well as in fact.

I really enjoy reading your columns because they are always enlightening, but I am so often left wishing there were something to do to change the direction we are headed, and at the same time left convinced we are far to far along this road to ever turn back. I have often extolled the virtue of Thomas Jefferson's suggestion that Nations need revolutions every couple of decades to get rid of the rot, but most people take this as a recipe for anarchy. I think the fear of being without a titular government even for a limited time keeps genuine patriots from supporting such a view, and the challenges the world as it has arrived is such that the idea of the level of isolation necessary for a revolution to occur without allowing for the takeover by a hostile Nation awaiting the opportunity keeps even those most strongly supporting such an idea from following through with the idea.

In any case, thanks for a rational perspective on this very real world we live in.

John McClain
Vanceboro, NC

As usual, Henry Lamb hit the issue 100% on target. This article ought to be required reading for Kyl, McCain, and Renzi. Lamb's description fits McCain's letters to a "T". The tough part to chew in this election is that in my opinion, Kyl and Renzi rank among our finest conservative representatives. The key problem with the last letters I've seen come out of Kyl and Renzi's offices is they unquestionably demonstrated that nobody in either office bothered to read the letters they pretended to answer.

Cindy Coping

Excellent information. I intend to pursue this with our city officials. The city has already adopted the international building code, so I may be too late. But it is worth a try.

Joe Miller
Metropolis, IL

I read this article about the "Virginia Hog Massacre" in absolute horror and shock! How do we as an American people permit this kind of gross violence and irresponsible "justice" to go unpunished? Maybe the governor of Virginia should have been in that pen along with the hogs!

My shock isn't because I'm not familiar with similar tactics used by other corrupt "police" agencies of our government such as the FDA. Here they use other spineless weasel agents who storm homes and medical facilities holding men, women and children at gun point, rip IV needles out of the arms of desperate patients receiving beneficial therapy, confiscate materials and research without any basis of illegal activity, withhold specialized nutrition necessary for sustaining life leaving patients for dead, and work in collusion with the court system to devise false testimonies and evidence to send developers of valid nutritional products to prison for 10+ years, etc!

From this unscrupulous tragedy there is something else that should greatly disturb all of us. It's not just the brutal massacre of healthy, harmless, innocent animals, or the intentional reckless mental violence committed against the owners, or the destruction of their property, or even the disgusting grand finale of billing them for this raping of their lives. What should also greatly disturb all of us is the realization that the animals in commission of these corrupt government agencies would show no more remorse, respect nor concern whether they were slaughtering people rather than pigs.

Thanks to our congress we will now have that opportunity to be slaughtered with "justice" as secret "evidence" can be and will be used against anyone who is considered "suspect" of any anti-American activity! That's leaving the doors open wide enough for all of us to enter the pen. Good work congress!

I extend my deepest sympathy to Danny and Cindi Henshaw and the others who were so viciously violated and inflicted with such unimaginable horror. I pray that the Lord will bring healing to all of you in time.

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