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  vicki riisager

  08/20/2017 11:24 PM

  I am concerned and don't know where to say this, but I thought you might be able to understand. I see there was ANOTHER ship collision, twice in a few months. After years of no collisions, this is starting to look suspicious. Is there a possibility of this not being an accident?

  The reason I am concerned is because of all the sudden many planes and helicopters are crashing, military ONLY. They have also found many men who got into the service who have gone with ISIS, and harmed our men. Is this not weird? Could these crashes be part of a plan to get our things grounded while looking into the crashes? It would be a good way for the enemy to be ahead of us, because our planes are not in the air. This has bothered me for a few weeks, and I do not know how to get someone looking at it. I am sure others have the same feeling, but I wanted to say it so maybe someone higher up could investigate. Please give it some thought.
  

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  Sharon Ream

  08/17/2017 10:21 PM

  Regarding the monuments, I agree with your take that local and state goverments should have control over these decisions, and monuments that are defaced or pulled down should be prosecuted as vandalism or worse if more is involved. How is this any different than the Taliban pulling down thousands of years old monuments of Buddha just because they don't like them?
  Also, as for "african-american communities" claiming they want to take down monuments of George Washington, etc. because he had slaves. How do we know that it will be an "african-american community" 5, 10, or 25 years from now? We are talking about our First and some consider "greatest" President!! Are we going to take down statues of MLK Jr. because he had affairs? Statues of Ulysses S. Grant because he was considered an alcoholic?? Yes, these were flawed men, but we have statues of them because we looked at the whole man. And as Frederick Douglass said as quoted in the Imprimis July/August 2017 edition, "I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity". Also, "The burden of our demand upon the American people shall simply be justice and fair play. We utterly repudiate all invidious distinctions, whether in our favor or against us, and only ask for a fair field, and no favor. Also, Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote in Plessy v. Ferguson, "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law."
  This idea that because a group wants something to happen, therefore they take it into their own hands to apply is simply anarchy. It should have been met with law enforcers. If they want to have something done, do it legally.
  

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  James Tucker

  08/16/2017 04:33 PM

  I have always remembered being taught that if we forget our history we are doomed to repeat it. While I could never condone White supremacy or bigotry or hatred it seems to me the outcry about statues that depict a time in this countries history, admittedly not our best moment, is just a little to politically correct. I can't recall anyone rallying around these statues or any other symbols of a bygone time until someone decided to take them down. Now they have become a flash point. A swastika or someone wearing a racial slur is a symbol of hatred, but a statue? Yes I understand these are of confederate soldiers, who while on the wrong side of history in defending slavery, the statues themselves are reminders of a history this country should and can never repeat. I haven't seen in the news reports these statues carry some racial slur, or they propose a return a time of slavery. They are a recognition of men who are a part of the fabric of this country. If we remove them, we remove the opportunity for an older generation to point to these statues and teach a younger generation about the dangers of a divided country and what happens when a dangerous ideology (slavery) is allowed to remain.

  Come to think of it, we can see that very thing happening with the suppression of ideas and thoughts by the politically correct, regardless of their leanings, left or right. It seems No longer can two people sit down and have a discussion on differing views in a civil way. The liberal cry for tolerance is quickly drowned out by the left when any view other than theirs is brought up.

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  Cleo Courington

  08/16/2017 12:12 PM

  Maybe we ought to point out the following time line to our citizens, since none of them learn about it in th classroom:

  Slavery became illegal:

  1) Sudan--1898 (resurgence in 1983); persists to the present day.

  2) Mali--1905; persists to the present day.

  3) Niger--outlawed in 1960; not criminalized until 2003.

  4) Saudi Arabia--outlawed in 1962, but effectively exists to the present day.

  7) Yemen--1962; remains practiced to the present day.

  5) Mauretania--1981.

  6) Chad--2009, but practiced to the present day.

  If those who oppose the Founders and especially the Framers want to oppose something worthwhile, let them oppose slavery.

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  Ricci Henry

  08/16/2017 11:46 AM

  Isn't it funny how that every time the dems underhanded dealings get ferreted out a race riot or some big blow-up happens???? The Russia collusion story gets blown wide open and implicates the dems for creating it and chaos erupts. Uhm?? Perhaps the left-wing thugs and even the alt-righters were paid again for creating this diversion. Or perhaps there is a demo deal going down right now we have yet to hear of??? OK! I know! If you didn't know better, you'd think I was a demo stratigest. Uhm? Maybe I could get a job working for dastardly Debbie? Naw. She'd see right through me. Or I would strangle her first.

  Did anyone ever think about the fact that all these so called social justice warriors are the very same people who would have been beating black people in the sixties, or shouting, "crucify him" in Jesus' day. Just a bunch of rabble-rousing thugs. Just shows how wishy-washy and fickle we are. All they need is a reason. Sadly, it just turned into a reason to bash Trump. I wish the liberal media would be convinced to get Mrs. King to get the word out the way she did on Fox News. Then. Hopefully. People could have a solid, honest ideal to come together under. Both left and right need to come together and solve the problems we face before we fall. The danger is not from without, but from within.

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  Ti Michelle Connelly

  08/16/2017 11:15 AM

  "I might even start greeting each new cry of outrage from the left with “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”"
  I feel the same way when I hear islamaphobia when I say or quote St. Thomas Aquinas views on the muslim cult. I say cult because it is no religion.