December 02, 2007 04:29 pm
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My take on the war
Dear Editor:
Editor’s note: This letter is written in response to a letter published Nov. 25 by W.V. Bonds of Cleburne.
Win the war at all costs, huh? Wow, I don’t understand your thinking, people. What are you so afraid of? You have a much greater risk of being killed by a semi from one of these oil rigs while tuning your car radio to hear Rush Limbaugh than by some terrorist. So, Mr. Bonds, your solution is to kill all Muslims because a few idiots attacked us?
So I guess in the Timothy McVey-Oklahoma tragedy your solution would be to kill all single white males between the ages of 19-26 because that’s what they were? We need to take care of our own country. We are the greatest country on earth, not the world police.
Wars are fought by kids, mine included, not by narrow-minded idealistic old men like Mr. Bonds. You might as well come on out next time my son is on leave and shoot him yourself. Get rid of the middle man, so to speak. Then do his mom, too, because it would kill her, and on down the line. This war is all about oil and power, not terrorists. They weren’t from Iran, and there were no weapons of mass destruction.
Are you so gullible as to believe everything you hear or read? If so, read both sides. Our world has more problems that need our attention than this senseless war.
Don Williams
Cleburne
Greed is taking over
Dear Editor:
God has been taken out of American’s public life by our court systems. Apparently a country founded on the belief in God has now converted to another belief starting with a “G.” Good old fashioned greed. Everything Congress, our state and locally elected officials and a large portion of our population do is in someway connected to greed. Of course, there are a few exceptions. Ron Paul comes to mind as possibly the only current politician in agreement with Harry Truman that certain things should be done for the good of the entire country rather than a special few. But you can be sure the media will not let him have enough exposure to have any chance of getting elected.
The idiots running the Federal Reserve are totally into protecting the criminals and morons who greedily set up the subprime loans fiasco. To %@$# with the old and hardworking people who try to save some money with interest rates, which will be cut again to 1 percent. They did it in Japan 20 odd years ago, and it is still at that level while their stock market dropped from 40,000 plus to 14,000, and they have basically been in a recession ever since.
Of course, the politicians could care less since they get huge reelection donations (greed) from these businesses. Educated idiots are running our country. The courts are directed by liberal judges who graduated from liberal colleges. Political correctness is far more powerful than factual correctness. Nobody dares to utter the truth and the media wouldn’t allow it to become known if they did.
“The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield,” Thomas Jefferson said.
The framers of our Constitution were well aware and fearful of overly powerful governments. Unfortunately most of the voters in this country are motivated by greed. Well over half of our population is in some way getting a handout from the government, and they will vote for whoever and whatever programs will benefit them the most (greed). And this is the basis which Hillary will run on (free medical care) and eventually cradle to the grave Socialism.
It didn’t work when we started this country (at Jamestown) and it didn’t work in the USSR. The few European countries that still have Socialism have double and triple our tax rates and not just on the rich, but on everybody who works. Hillary does not want mere money, her desire (greed) is for power. Like Chavez in Venezuela, she would love to spend the rest of her life telling Americans what they could or couldn’t do in their life.
We live today not for the moment. We saddle future generations with enormous debt so that we may live the rich life today and our people simply seem to not care that we have become the debtor nation of the world. Our government deflates the dollar to make our manufacturers’ exports cheaper (greed) to sell to other countries while it costs us ever more money to buy the necessities of life.
Congress has managed to pass laws which basically guarantee that they will be re-elected and have given themselves such a generous retirement system (greed) that it alone should enrage the American people to the point of revolution.
“A little revolution now and then is a good thing,” Thomas Jefferson said.
W.V. Bonds
Cleburne
As times go by
Dear Editor:
Recently, we received a nice rain, the Cowboys won, A&M beat t.u., and I had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving, an American holiday often taken for granted. I remain very thankful for these things, some of which were blessings, and some were just enjoyable incidents. I feel that it’s a blessing just to get up every day and enjoy whatever is out there and, I’ll admit to taking these things for granted. Other items that got my attention were the informative letter to the editor in Sunday’s Times-Review, written by W.V. Bonds, regarding the digressive, terroristic and fanatical Muslims in our world, and a sermon directed right at me and others by my pastor, Robert Herzig. He talked about two kinds of time, kairos and chronos, as related to our individual lives, and why we should spend both types of time in productive and corrective ways. Chronos refers to the ongoing clock time as we know it in minutes, days, etc., and it never stops ticking, a quantitative time over which we have no control, other than wasting it. Kairos refers to special times, unrelated to the clock, a right or opportune time, a time of crisis, a qualitative time, a time when something special happens, a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved. We can often affect the results of this unannounced time by correct decisions and actions. One should be well conditioned in making intelligent decisions in a hurry as a kairos interval may be quickly here and quickly gone, never to return. A captured or lost opportunity. Each interval is unique in time and substance.
Mr. Bonds letter, “We need to win the war,” brings forth much truth about why we are in such a crucial fix, basically because of lax and “open arms” immigration tactics throughout Europe and also in our country and Canada. Millions of Muslims are now in Europe while taking great advantage of the hospitality and social services there, contributing little to the countries’ welfare yet causing much strife. Rather than learning from the Europeans’ mistakes, we have been just plain dumb by not being more restrictive as to each immigrant’s character and to the numbers allowed. In the case of American Muslims, the U.S.’s freedom of religion is not fine because this religion is dominated by cultural extremists who use fear and antiquated rules as their control weapons over their “flocks,” making it a dictatorial culture and not “love thy neighbor” philosophy. We must insist that the peaceful, freedom-seeking Muslims separate from the shari’a extremists, openly, regardless of the threatened consequences, and learn to live under and respect U.S. laws of the land. Otherwise, why come here? European’s special kairos times were not utilized intelligently as they allowed huge numbers of troublemakers to immigrate. Europeans and Britons forfeited the most effective deterrents to the Muslim offense, including practiced Christianity and enforced democratic laws with extradition rather than imprisonment. Our leaders let us down due to ignorance or personal agendas by not enforcing previously installed immigration laws.
It is quite clear that we must support this war against Islamic terrorists to insure winning. If we don’t beat them on every front and win, our special opportunity times will be lost. The English and Europeans will testify as to the poor value of hindsight! We should be studious with the issues and look at the long term. The fanatical Islamists wish to do away with us and our way of life in whatever time it takes. We need to set our alarms “at early” and stay awake!
Monte Swatzell
Cleburne
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