Return to Press ReleasesApril 11th Letters to the EditorThank you. You have the best paper! Keep it coming. Loyalton is a special place.From Colorado Judith and Bradner Editor, I heard an interesting interview on the Comedy Channel of all places. It was with Biden's director of the Federal Trade Commission. She told of how aggressive business and industry were at rigging the game of commerce and since these guys are in the drivers seat, ordinary consumers (that's us) lose. Essentially, all aspects of big business do this and it's called monopoly. Pharma, financial, tech, marketing. Just further evidence is the fact that the last people that like capitalism are the capitalists!!! But of course Republicans are trained to hate regulators… and those folks that are trying to keep the kleptocrats out of your pocket are Biden's regulators. Sincerely, Don McKechnie Sparks, Sierraville, the Western Hemisphere Editor The rule of law (not of man) and due process are the cornerstones of our freedom. Without the ability to defend ourselves and our property, we have no rights at all. We are not free or safe when the legal system operates outside the law. Such is the case of Donald Trump. The gall of attacking someone with his stature is not only unprecedented, but also foretelling. If this can happen to Donald Trump, who of us is safe? How many of the innocent among us might be arrested and jailed indefinitely as were those on January 6? Confined without due process… Seems unlikely, except for the fact that the Department of Justice just launched the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center or ERPO Resource Center. (https://www.bja.ojp.gov/news/just-launched-nation-extereme-risk-protection-order-resource-center) Why is this significant? According to the official press release, “ERPO laws...create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other groups (in some states) to petition a court to temporarily prohibit someone at risk of harming themselves or others from purchasing and possessing firearms for the duration of the order.” Sounds like guilty until proven innocent to me. This is a perversion of our justice system implemented in defiance of the rule of law. There is no evidence. There are no facts. There is only conjecture. There is only the belief that correlation does mean causation, when it does not. Due process is nowhere to be found and there is no possibility of mounting a defense. With such a law in place, it does not matter if you have firearms or have no interest in them. No one is free because no one will be above suspicion. We are already a severely divided nation. With soviet style in formants being enabled, when do the purges begin? Karen Steingrebe Sierra Brooks Published on line 3/28/24 Published in print 4/11/24 Dear Editors (both of you) Has anyone but me noticed that the roads are crap? I don't care if it's Your street, My street, County roads, State roads or the Federal Interstate highways... The roads are crap! Now I'm not worried about "Biden's" Inflation (that's BS), and I'm not worried about the price of eggs or the price of a gallon of gas (what can ya do but bitch). What I'm worried about is the suspension of my car falling out! My car's tires have nicks all over them from the potholes and the broken seams of the roadways. If you think that the political division in America, or the upcoming election, or immigration or reproductive freedoms, or even sexual "norms" are flashpoints for your anger, maybe you'd better think again and look around. When America's highways and byways become impassable Everything stops! Nobody works, no goods come or go (not unlike what up with that bridge in Baltimore). The USPO can't get you your vegetable seeds that you ordered for your garden. FedEx won't deliver your Amazon package. There's no fertilizer at the feed store. You and I, and everyone else need good, passable roads!!! - from the Federal Highway System, to the street you live on... Think about this, and contact your Elected Representatives (who cares which party they espouse!). But Don't Bitch at your local road crew!!! - they're the guys and girls that are filling your potholes as best they can - with what they're given......... Most Sincerely Russell Rosewood The Calpine Communist DISFUNCTION OF BIDEN'S ADMINISTATION The democratic party and this administration is the personification of the Nazi Party of WWII. Speaker Schumer is sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, in that of a sovereign nation 6,762 miles by precipitating the overthrow of the Jewish government by telling the Jewish people to oust the duly elected prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. While on the other hand, our current DOJ wants to hang Donald Trump from the nearest American flagpole for fighting back on an election system that is clearly corrupt and broken, the hypocrisy is staggering. The Country of Israel secured their freedom in 1948, after the Germans systematic killed over six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi collaborators during World II. This Nation supports other countries in their defense of themselves but has no right to tell another sovereign country when to quit or how long they can defend themselves especially Israel given the horrific attack by the terrorist group Hamas last October and yes, we were giving them aid and now our government wants to distance themselves from Israel. On top of that, Biden, last Easter Sunday declared Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility, that is a direct attack on any denomination of faith/religion. People can be who they want in this country, THANK GOD, but no law or presidential edict will change a person's moral compass or an individual's DNA. Bidens announcement shows a spectacular lack of moral character, prudent ethics, or grasp of reality. Any religious denomination should be alarmed by that extraordinarily incompetent act and lack of judgement, and this is the man who has his finger on the nuclear button. Biden's administration and this current Senate under Schumer are not just a blemish on this once great nation but have made us the laughingstock of the world over, while our Nation faces incalculable threats from unsecured borders and every kind of illegals one can imagine coming into our country. There is no leadership in the country under the Democrats. The Jewish people in their country, as do the Americans in this country, have every right to defend themselves from corruption from those who wish them harm, especially Israel since the end of WWII, go Israel! Our need to return to the Constitution of which our politicians have failed to uphold and defend is under attack and those who do not support the Constitution should be removed! “Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.” Thomas Sowell Michael H. Welbourn Submitted: 04/12/24 Article By: Sierra Booster |