I read the letter improperly titled “Preposterous propaganda” placed in your Feb. 25 edition. I found the letter to be insulting and full of the normal half-truths and lies that we’ve come to expect from the so called “tolerant” left.
For starters, he claims that the Constitution was only set up to benefit rich white guys. My family first arrived on these shores in the 1600s from Europe to seek a life in the New World that was better than what they had in Europe. I have also had ancestors who fought in every war this country has ever fought in and some died for our right to be free. This Constitution has benefited many members of my family, including some that are neither rich nor white. And having the audacity to call anyone who disagrees with him a right-wing tea partier all-or-nothing thinker I find revolting.
It’s people like this that need to get off the Kool Aid and start learning to think like a human being instead of like the robot, which they sound like. Our country is not perfect, but the last thing we need is a bunch of people shooting off their mouths acting like 2-year-olds who scream when they don’t get their way.
We need to support people who really care about making and keeping our country great instead of listening to the socialist ideologues who only care about destroying the Judeo-Christian values on which this country was truly founded and read your Bible and follow the examples of Jesus.
Scott Sims, Oakley
As cited last week, women's rights in America suffered in comparison to their male counterparts.
As example, the common law doctrine of coverture, stated that women could not buy or sell property, make contracts, draft wills, sue or be sued.
Thomas Jefferson advocated for the wall which separates Church and State. America WAS NOT founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
All the references to God you see in American society - such as on the dollar bill, in courthouses etc - came about during the Red Scare and the Cold War, where American Senator McCarthy suggested a more christian-friendly culture would unite the American people and deter any 'red' influences.
Many of the Founding Fathers were Deists.
Please Mr. Sims, learn the REAL American history - not the one bleated about.
I consider myself an independent that takes sides on issues and not on idealogies of a single party. I've voted Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, and even Green. I look at the issue at hand instead of listening to people like Beck and Olberman.
However, the more I hear of the Tea Party, the more I am turned off by them and even a bit scared of them. Birthers, deathcamps, constitutionalists that don't know the constitution (looking at you Christine O'Donnell), they are all scary. I try to stay away fromt he crazies, from both sides of the political spectrum.
The other problem that I have with the Tea Party is that they aren't even listening to the general public that they claim to represent. NBC News and The Wall Street Journal ran a poll that showed how Americans feel about spending cuts. All those social programs that the Republicans and Tea Partiers want to cut? Those are the ones people want! All that military spending that they are trying to keep? The Public would rather see that reduced.
"In the poll, eight in 10 respondents say they are concerned about the growing federal deficit and the national debt, but more than 60 percent — including key swing-voter groups — are concerned that major cuts from Congress could impact their lives and their families.
What’s more, while Americans find some budget cuts acceptable, they are adamantly opposed to cuts in Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and K-12 education.
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Read the article and the poll findings here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41876558/ns/politics/
Also, Scott, as you are a person that is for the constitution and the founding values of the country I find it funny how you want to preserve "the Judeo-Christian values values on which this country was truly founded"
According to the first amendment of the constitution:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
As a Christian that goes to church twice a week and sings in the choir, I am wholly for the seperation of church and state here in America. That gives us the great thing called religious freedom that other religious countries in the Middle East don't have.
As long as I can practice my religion freely and without hinderance from the government I could care less if every legislature was muslim, budhist, or even the dreaded aethist.