Published: August 31, 2009 08:02 am      

8/30 Letters to the Editor

Let them speak



Dear Editor:



This beloved country of ours, that has blessed almost every nation on the face of this earth, was founded in a bloody revolution.

The Democrats seem to have forgotten our beginnings.

Democrats around the country and the Obama administration are disrespecting and complaining about the tea parties and protests at the town hall meetings. This concerns me.

As a college student in the ’60s and ’70s, I participated in anti-Vietnam War protests and in the civil rights movement.

In those days, we were criticized, too. Although I kept with peaceful demonstrations, some protests became violent.

Today, many of those same violent protestors are Obama supporters who are vehemently “dissing” the protests against socialist health care.

Have the Democrats forgotten, or is it just that those protesting are not in agreement with their platform?

Do the Democrats only agree with freedom of assembly and speech when the protestors are on their side?

Our own Gayle Ledbetter, Johnson County Democratic chairwoman said, “... they are scaring people, especially senior citizens. ... They are in the news constantly, and they’ve already made their point. ... I don’t see the point in continuing to give them a stage to act badly.”

I wonder, Mrs. Ledbetter, if you participated in anti-Vietnam War protests and in the civil rights movement in the ’60s and ’70s?

The statement you made in the Times-Review on Aug. 17 could have been made by the those who opposed the civil rights movement and supported the Vietnam War.

Would you want to live in a country that denied us this privilege? I think not.

As American citizens, we have a right to peaceful demonstrations and protests.

As Americans we must learn to work together.

But complaining about citizens exercising their right to peaceful protests is not in the spirit of working together.

These citizens want their voices heard. They want to make a loud statement, and I, for one, am grateful that they have the right to do so.

We have the right to make our voices heard.

Let’s get busy and work together for the betterment of our country.

There are solutions to challenging problems, but we must be willing to listen to each other, compromise, and make hard decisions.



Terri White

Cleburne







Health care reform the first step toward communism



Dear Editor:



When Obama started running for the presidency of the United States I attempted to warn people of his ambitions, goals and history.

I stated that when I heard Obama speak the first time, my college memories indicated he was a Marxist.

I learned his mother hung around coffee shops while in high school in the Northwest as a Marxist wannabe.

I further outlined her travels with Barack when he was a child throughout the third-world, communist enclaves, where he acquired a basic indoctrination in communism.

Others have spoken about his 20 odd years listening to the “G-- D--- America” preacher Wright.

And his associations with criminals from his beginning have been shown along with his inability to find any rich, liberal cabinet members who had bothered to pay their taxes and on and on it has gone.

In my letter Oct. 19, 2008, I wrote “The election of Obama as president would guarantee the continued downward spiral of America.”

Well we did, and America is going to turn into a third world country at best and a socialistic country at worst.

Question. Who wrote the first $7.8 billion stimulus bill?

Congress didn’t write or read it. Obama couldn’t comment on it since he hadn’t read it.

It was just all of a sudden there.

Much was written not by our Congress or their employees, but by the Apollo Alliance, a group of U.S. business leaders, AFL-CIO leaders, environmentalists and community activists including ACORN, to reduce carbon emissions, etc.

One of the authors is our new Council on Environmental Quality adviser at the White House, Van Jones, who, like Obama, paid back the unions’ support and mandated union wages for environmental workers, which is about double that of current wages.

Does Obama care? Probably not.

The GAO just forced the White House to publicly admit that he had run up the deficit from $2 trillion to $9 trillion, and he has just started.

You take all the unfunded entitlements and other deficits along with the plans for health reform and our children will owe $40 trillion in today’s currency. There is no way we can repay it.

Anybody recognize the name Van Jones?

He was first arrested during the Rodney King riots in May 1992 and stated that while in jail he “met all these young radical people of color. I mean really radical, communist and anarchists, and it was like, this is what I need to be a part of.”

He later said, “By August I was a communist.”

He spent the next 10 years as a radical, starting the organization known as STORM, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, which had study groups on the teachings of Marx and Lenin.

According to their manifesto “All of STORM’s members developed a basic understanding of and commitment to revolutionary Marxist policies with a particular emphasis on the historical experiences of third world communist movements.”

In 1999 he was arrested again while protesting the WTO.

After the election he said, “The truth is that Barack Obama is, that the first black president is the first green president, and he’s not just going to save you, he’s going to save the whole wide world.”

With our money grubbing Congress and the American population’s transition into “sheeple,” I have no hope that we can overcome a White House full of avowed communists.

The socialization of our health care system is simply the first change to create a third-world communist country of what was once America, the lighthouse of the world.



W.V. Bonds

Cleburne