Letters to the Editor
Posted by on Monday, August 3, 2009
Under: Columns
House Divided
Whether it is a “house,” “nation,” or any specific group, if that entity is “divided against itself” it cannot stand. A specific example of such division would be when I was in High School and two friends would run against each other for either Royalty or political office. Their friends’ votes would be divided and an actually weaker individual would claim the majority of votes. Pride goeth before the fall.
I received in my mail an invitation to a political fundraiser and some very deep chords in my soul were struck with perceptive insight to a self perpetuating cause of many current problems in this nation. At the grass roots, both political parties are drawing a dividing line in the sand to create a special category of political influence. That line divides party members’ and offers special preference to a very small group of people in the same breath that they exclude a true consensus of others who also love freedom.
Many of the problems we now face have roots in “Major Donors” getting special access to people who everyone in the party supports, and it is in this manner that at the very grass roots many of the critical issues of this nation are whitewashed and ignored while everyone “in the house” is mesmerized and pacified by the strains of “cum bi ah.”
Why is it that those who perceive being a Major Donor as advantageous cannot actually comprehend the benefits of allowing all to have an equal voice? What harm would come if a Senator or Congressman actually listened to someone who may have a little different perspective because of their financial situation? How is it that giving more than a specific amount of funds somehow makes one and or their opinion of more value? Could answers to these questions and intelligent policy action at the grass roots possibly resolve our huge deficit, give us hope for a balanced budget, give us greater numbers of good men who are willing to serve in political office, and maybe even bring us truth about the insignificance of global warming? Sometimes I miss Forest Gump.
Edmund A Cook
Pocatello, ID
God-Given Rights
There are two types of rights: unalienable and vested.
Since God isn't taught in government schools, kids in school don't learn how unalienable rights are given by God. No one, not even government, has the right to take these away.
Here are SOME unalienable rights. The right to: govern yourself, keep and bear arms (you shouldn't have to get permission from the government to carry a gun around), assemble, make personal choices, get married, bear children, petition, free speech, enjoy fruits of one's labor, privacy, personal security, nature's necessities (food, water, clothing, shelter, air), fair trial, and contract.
Vested rights are rights given to you by government such as a hunter's license, driving down the right side of the road, the youngest age that you can drive, etc. Since government gave those rights they have the authority to take them away when necessary.
Here's a question: If God isn't taught in government schools then how are children going to know that unalienable rights are from God, their Creator, and vested rights are from government?
Liberty Stevens, 10 years old
Pocatello, ID
Whether it is a “house,” “nation,” or any specific group, if that entity is “divided against itself” it cannot stand. A specific example of such division would be when I was in High School and two friends would run against each other for either Royalty or political office. Their friends’ votes would be divided and an actually weaker individual would claim the majority of votes. Pride goeth before the fall.
I received in my mail an invitation to a political fundraiser and some very deep chords in my soul were struck with perceptive insight to a self perpetuating cause of many current problems in this nation. At the grass roots, both political parties are drawing a dividing line in the sand to create a special category of political influence. That line divides party members’ and offers special preference to a very small group of people in the same breath that they exclude a true consensus of others who also love freedom.
Many of the problems we now face have roots in “Major Donors” getting special access to people who everyone in the party supports, and it is in this manner that at the very grass roots many of the critical issues of this nation are whitewashed and ignored while everyone “in the house” is mesmerized and pacified by the strains of “cum bi ah.”
Why is it that those who perceive being a Major Donor as advantageous cannot actually comprehend the benefits of allowing all to have an equal voice? What harm would come if a Senator or Congressman actually listened to someone who may have a little different perspective because of their financial situation? How is it that giving more than a specific amount of funds somehow makes one and or their opinion of more value? Could answers to these questions and intelligent policy action at the grass roots possibly resolve our huge deficit, give us hope for a balanced budget, give us greater numbers of good men who are willing to serve in political office, and maybe even bring us truth about the insignificance of global warming? Sometimes I miss Forest Gump.
Edmund A Cook
Pocatello, ID
God-Given Rights
There are two types of rights: unalienable and vested.
Since God isn't taught in government schools, kids in school don't learn how unalienable rights are given by God. No one, not even government, has the right to take these away.
Here are SOME unalienable rights. The right to: govern yourself, keep and bear arms (you shouldn't have to get permission from the government to carry a gun around), assemble, make personal choices, get married, bear children, petition, free speech, enjoy fruits of one's labor, privacy, personal security, nature's necessities (food, water, clothing, shelter, air), fair trial, and contract.
Vested rights are rights given to you by government such as a hunter's license, driving down the right side of the road, the youngest age that you can drive, etc. Since government gave those rights they have the authority to take them away when necessary.
Here's a question: If God isn't taught in government schools then how are children going to know that unalienable rights are from God, their Creator, and vested rights are from government?
Liberty Stevens, 10 years old
Pocatello, ID
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