Letters to the editor open thread

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Bailout Is A Joke
December 16, 2008

The whole idea of a U.S. auto industry bailout is nothing more than a sick, expensive joke. Over the last several decades, American consumers have made a choice: They would rather purchase better-quality and less expensive foreign cars (many of which are manufactured in America) than the gas-guzzling, low-quality cars made by the Big Three.

This seems like a logical and reasonable shift in consumer spending, but our government does not agree. Instead, it is now trying to force U.S. consumers to support GM, Chrysler and Ford through taxes and inflation.

If there were even a remote chance that an influx of cash would resurrect these dinosaurs, there would be private lenders waiting at the door. Instead, the only way to keep these companies afloat is through force and fraud.

I am pleasantly surprised that the Senate refused to bail out the industry, but if the president now has the authority to appropriate money for this on his own, why do we even need a Congress?

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Libertas, Pax, Prosperitas

November 22, 2008 marks the 45th year after President Kennedy was murdered. During his short, two year presidential term Kennedy did some remarkable feats no other president has matched. Kennedy's administration launched a man onto the moon. They defeated Kruschev's communist plans for World War III without a bullet being fired. Some believe this was the beginning of the end for Communism. Their administration was preparing to withdraw troops from Vietnam right before his assassination. Five months before his death President Kennedy also issued notes redeemable in silver. These notes competed directly with fiat bills produced by the privately owned Federal Reserve System. Upon his death the notes were never again issued. President Kennedy also spoke this ominous warning about America under siege by secret societies: "For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day." People opposed to secret societies and who fight against saboteurs of our inalienable rights are assembling at the Federal Reserve on November 22, 2008. All these patriots ask is for sovereignty, sound currency and peace.

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Why do people keep on falling for empty rhetoric from a puppet politician? I thought people could see through the lies of Barack's anti-war platform when he called for more troops in Afghanistan, or when he still supports funding the Iraq war, or when he won't take the nuclear option off of Iran. A little over half the voters proved me wrong. Maybe they saw a worse alternative in John McCain who openly called for a 100 year war. At least John McCain doesn't blatantly lie about his policies. It's not like people didn't have a chance to vote for any pro-peace candidates. Ralph Nader and Bob Barr were both on the ballot in Pennsylvania. The veterans, the people we should be honoring, were adamantly pro-peace as evidenced by their massive contributions to the most pro peace candidate-Ron Paul. Why are Americans so ready to capitulate to a guy in a suit who says he has all the answers? Shouldn't we listen to the men in the trenches fighting for us? Veterans for peace and other groups fighting for our American rights are rallying at the Federal Reserve on November 22, 2008 to protest puppet politicians and the lies they represent. They welcome anyone ready for real solutions to our economic crisis.

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Dear Congressman,

What will you do the next time Wall Street comes asking for money? Will you vote to steal more of our hard earned money and hand it over again? If you don't know better, you need to educate yourself about economics.
The most important principal in this case is that there is no such thing as 100% suffering from economic downturn. There are individuals who always benefit. We are talking about a shift of wealth.
The larger the crisis, the fewer people who profit, and the more wealth they steal. In the 1930's depression there were a few people who benefited and those people are still around today and they are still benefiting. Learn from history or you will be destined to repeat it.
We have allowed the Federal Reserve, a private bank, to control the value of our money with inflation and deflation with no oversight. The FED causes the problem and offers a solution that benefits them. In the long run, this will be much worse for the American people. What you have done here is given more power and wealth to the private Federal Reserve bankers by further destroying the dollar. Bernanke knows this as well as Paulson. I, and millions of Americans are convinced this is no accident.
The only question I have for you is, do you know this or are you just ignorant?
Regardless of what the answer to this question is, what you have done here is indefensible. If you know the truth you are a traitor and if you are naive of this then you are not qualified to represent the people.
Indebting the taxpayers and future generations is WRONG! The Economic Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008 is an outrage and an assault on our country’s financial stability and the Constitution.

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End of the GOP (Republican Party)?

Neo-conservatives are NOT true (traditional) conservatives and have overtaken the Republican Party and bamboozled the United States into war. Bush was sure Iraq had chemical weapons because we gave them to them in 1980 along with a nuclear reactor! It was a fallacy going into Iraq sighting 9/11 as reason. The Americans were lied to hundreds of times in order to continue the war in Iraq.

Neo-conservatives came from left wing of Democratic Party and co-opted control of Republican Party. They believe in entitlement expansion, to protect oil, big government at home and big government abroad - really radicalism in the bad sense of the word.

Voters believed the Democrats when they voted them control of the House and Senate, but have done nothing to change the course of this illegal war.

All Presidential candidates were asked to sign a pledge to support the Constitution. Ron Paul is the only Republican to sign!

Ron Paul will restore the Republican Party.

Editor should have a "catchy" HEADLINE. Many people won't read unless they know the subject - including me.

I only read those which interest me - I don't just read them...

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Meet the new boss... same as the old boss? The Democrats won the elections by a landslide. They have received a clear mandate for change.

The GOP has been thoroughly repudiated by the American people and therefore, the things that the Republicans did should be repudiated. The only real change will come when our representatives reverse the actions of the last 8 years.

Here is a how to correct some of the most serious atrocities of the Bush Administration and Republican Congress:
• End all aggressive wars and bring our troops home from all over the world
• Repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, Military Commissions Act, No Child Left Behind, and Sarbanes-Oxley
• Prohibit spying on American citizens
• Stop the REAL ID
• End the Wall Street bailouts and economic stimulus packages
• Balance the budget
• Restore habeas corpus

These all represent items that have been implemented by a Republican administration; the Democrats have been elected change them. I suspect the Democrats have no desire to change the world Bush has created, but there is one way to see real change: maintain contact with your representatives and do not stop paying attention just because the election is over.

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Letter to the Editor:

What if there were No 2008 Elections?

Why are the oil rich Gulf Arab states de-peging the US dollar right now?

Why now? Why not wait until after the 2008 Presidential Elections?

Could it be because the "powers that be" want to crash the US economy so that Bush can continue a dictator style reign?

Are you aware that last year Bush signed the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which state that if there should be a "catastrophic event" he will essentially become "a dictator" over the Federal Government and suspend the Constitution?

Why have Iran and Iraq leaders met for the first time?

Iran has implemented the oil bourse (oil exchange) and will be dealing in strictly rail, the Iranian currency. The guess is right now that the bourse, which is to be located on the gulf island of Kish, will open by trading in “oil products” and within a short amount of time begin dealing in crude. This comes at a time when Iran’s oil output is reaching levels not seen in Iran since 1979 and plan to flood the market with cheap oil. Iraq was attacked six months after demanding oil be paid for in Euro’s only.

Why is US intent on war with Iran?

The fear in the United States in some economic circles is that the opening of this oil bourse could lead to a further decline of the U.S. dollar. The U.S. dollar is currently the international currency in the trading of crude oil, with all oil exchanges being located in the Western world, but the Iranian oil bourse would seek to change this fact.

He is such a good puppet after all. Why trade him in for a new un-proven one like Barack Obama OR in their worst nightmares, the non-puppet, Ron Paul?

My question is: How would American people react to having NO ELECTIONS at all? Would that finally wake up the public?

Stay tuned America. Get informed. Google Ron Paul and join the r3VOLution.

Letter to the Editor:

In favor of Gun Control?

If you are in favor of gun control, then you are in the company of several famous people who have disarmed their countries: Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Chairman Mao. They went on to exterminate millions of their subjects.

We can’t allow history to repeat itself. It is our Constitutional right and responsibility to keep and bear arms.

In Boy Scouts, we were taught the respect and safe handling of firearms. We also learned that we have the right to protect our homes, our families, and our property.

Please don’t allow our rights to slip away from us or we could end up under the same type of tyrannical governments I just mentioned.

Ron Paul has authored and introduced numerous pieces of legislation to protect the Second Amendment and the rest of our Constitutional freedoms.

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Save the Internet!

I am writing today to urge you to write your legislators to co-sponsor and or support the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008 (HR 5353). This important, bipartisan legislation protects the free-flowing Internet from blocking, censorship and discrimination by powerful phone and cable companies.

Tens of millions of Americans rely upon an open Internet in their daily lives. There have been attempts to tax and limit it’s use – another loss of Freedom.

Our elected leaders must protect our basic right to communicate from those who want to take it from us.

The legislation calls for a nationwide series of public hearings about what the future of the Internet should look like; an important step to bring these crucial issues into the light of day.

Please help in this effort by joining Reps. Markey and Pickering in support of the bipartisan Internet Freedom Preservation Act. Thank you.

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End the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

As citizens of this great country, we must be aware of our out of control government, especially the tax enforcement branch called the IRS. They are stealing people’s hard earned money, seizing property, destroying self-worth, and use their strong-arm tactics to ruin people’s lives. They stop at nothing to collect these unconstitutional taxes.

Our leaders have to stand up for the ordinary citizen – as a voice for all of us. For once, in a Presidential race, one candidate is a true leader of, by and for the people. This candidates’ name is Ron Paul.

His plan is to eliminate the IRS and the unconstitutional Federal Income Tax by proposing a constitutional amendment for total elimination. By downsizing the Federal Government in other areas, we would receive sufficient taxes to run the government more efficiently.

Our Federal Income Taxes don’t even go to the Federal Government. They go directly to the Federal Reserve (which is not even part of our government) to pay on the interest of the national debt. [ a source would be great here ]

Aren’t we responsible enough to keep our own money? If we want TRUE change, not status quo “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”, then vote for Congressman Ron Paul in the Primary – the responsible choice.

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100-Year War?

As we support all our military men and women serving in Iraq, we need to be aware of the political undercurrent in this year’s campaign of the “100 Year War”.

Where are all of the troops to supply this war going to come from? THE REINSTATEMENT OF THE DRAFT, H.R. 393: Universal National Service Act of 2007 to require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services.

Have we learned nothing from the Vietnam War years where millions of people on both sides were killed in the name of Communism; it sounds eerily familiar with stopping the war on terror?

If you’ve ever visited the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, it’s a very sobering place where you come face to face with all the young lives lost.

Vietnam is now our trading partner and many of our companies are located there and employ the same people whom we fought against.

The war in Iraq is a war we will never win (it’s not meant to be won). Let your Congressmen and Senators know that if this draft comes up for a vote, to vote against it and bring our troops home NOW!

On Primary Day, cast your vote for Ron Paul – a real patriot. He will bring our troops home immediately.

Osama Bn Laden is Dead

Obama needs a SPADE to find Bin Laden…

Barak Obama should be honest enough with the American people to declare him dead.

Here are the facts.

The last intelligence intercept of Osama bin Laden was on December 14 of 2001. He has not been heard from since.
President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld hinted in late December of 2001 that they knew Osama bin Laden was dead.

President Musharraf of Pakistan announced in January of 2002 that Osama bin Laden was probably dead of kidney disease.

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan was quoted in October of 2002 as saying, "The more we don't hear of him, and the more time passes, there is the likelihood that he probably is either dead or seriously wounded somewhere."

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden was Murdered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg

Osama bin Gone

Osama bin Laden, was an asset to the CIA around the era of the Afghanistan Soviet Union conflict. In fact his code-name while in the US was "Tim Osman," it did not surprise me at all that he was dead since 2001-2002.

The evidence was insurmountable, people however need to take the time to investigate and all the pieces of the puzzle will come together.

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One r3VOLution vs. 545 Legislators & Millions of Brain-off Americans

One hundred Senators, 435 Congressmen, one President and nine Supreme Court Justices - 545 human beings out of the 300 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the national and domestic problems that plague this country today.

THEY are the ones who create the problems and then campaign against them – but do they really? Regardless of what we want, say or do, they have things the way THEY want them.

I believe it is time we all turn our brains back on, understand, and realize we MUST become involved. “We the People” must take our country back, one step at a time!

We MUST:
1) Research the record and integrity of the person you are voting for in our elections.
2) Not get all your news from one source.
3) Not allow the old media to choose your candidate (the one they talk about and feature on a daily basis)
4) Support only those legislators who want to uphold The Constitution of the U.S. (not the North American Union – NAU - being secretly established; aka, the United States of Mexico and Canada)
5) Support those who are committed to dissolve the Federal Reserve, a PRIVATE bank with whom the Federal Govt. entrusts our monetary system.
6) Do your own research on the following and ask your candidate where they stand on these Treaties and Legislation:
a. North American Union,
b. NAFTA/CAFTA,
c. United Nations (taking over this country),
d. Member of Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?
e. New World Order,
f. FEMA Concentration camps (800 in U.S. today),
g. World Trade Order (WTO),
h. SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America),
i. Blackwater (Americans Private Mercenary -“Shadow Army”),
j. NATO,
k. Patriot Act (nice sounding name that has stolen our First Amendment),
l. REAL ID (which includes facial scan, background check, and a micro-chip for tracking), soon to become National ID,
m. Global Poverty Act (S. 2433), sponsored by Barack Obama - New Tax ($845 Billion) includes guns and small arms ban (passed by Senate this week!)

On how many of these things did YOU have the opportunity to vote? NONE! None of these are in OUR best interest, or the nations; so what’s going on? This is the real question!

WAKE UP AMERICA!

One candidate wants to form an Internal Security Force of one million men and women, at a cost of $500 billion. These are outside of the Armed Forces, and their loyalty is owed to one person, the President. This is similar to all national take-ocvers by socialists, to have an army solely loyal to the leader.

It happened in Russia, in Cuba, and other communist countries.

Barack Hussein Obama is the candidate asking for his own Internal Security Forces. Behind him is Bill Ayers, the architect of this socialist take-over of this country.

This Bill has been introduced to The House. If you disagree with this bill please contact your Representatives and tell them NO to Bill H.R. 393 When it comes to the Senate.

Another addition could be use sound bite paragraphs to pick and choose from.
Copy and paste is a good tool to use when composing a letter. You can copy a profound statement you like, paste it in your document, then change it into your own words and add to it.

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NEW TAX, NO GUNS, thanks to O’Bama

More Power to the United Nations

This week, leaders of the United States Senate signaled that they are intent on giving more power to the United Nations, including the power to impose taxes, paving the way for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty. Wednesday, February 13, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed by voice vote the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433), sponsored by Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).

This feel good legislation commits the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product (GNP) on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.

In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning "small arms and light weapons" and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The U.S. should have nothing to do with these awful treaties or the UN Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). One of the worst aspects of LOST is the mechanism for imposing a global tax by requiring companies to pay a portion of their profits to the International Seabed Authority.

Please call your legislators and request they uphold their oath to the Constitution and maintain the sovereignty of our United States and OPPOSE these two pieces of legislation. Also request we withdraw from the U.N. immediately.

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Illegal Federal Reserve

President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act on December 23rd, 1913. History proved that on that day, the Constitution ceased to be the governing covenant of the American people, and our liberties were handed over to a small group of International Bankers.

To those unaware, the Federal Reserve Bank and its twelve-district branch banks are not part of our Federal Government. The Federal Reserve Bank is privately owned and the Federal Reserve Act creating this monster is unconstitutional.

A handful of politicians and Wilson pulled this scam during Christmas recess. By their illegal actions and the lies that followed, in essence, they gave control over the national treasury to this private banking entity and along with it, much of our sovereignty. Our Constitution puts the money supply only in the hands of the Treasury Department of the United States, no other entity.

For the past 95 years, the Federal Reserve Bank has played havoc with our economy. They control the money supply and can cause inflation, which they love, and/or contraction, which causes recessions. They simply control all aspects of the money supply. When they need more money, they simply print it and charge the Federal Government interest on the newly expanded (printed) money.

The extremely high national debt is a product of these private bankers and their never-ending greed. Some put the national debt around nine trillion dollars. Many believe it is closer to 40 trillion. (There has never been an audit of the Federal Reserve.) Whatever the real figures, the interest owed by the taxpayers to these private banks, outstrips the dollars we pay in Federal Income Tax, and we pay plenty. In order to pay this interest to these private bankers, our Federal Government has had to rob Social Security funds, putting Social Security at risk.

There is only one candidate running in the presidential election who dares to speak of this travesty and will eliminate the Federal Reserve. He is Congressman Ron Paul! If you are concerned about inflation, Social Security going broke, or having your Social Security benefits drastically reduced, or you feel concerned about the debt being forced upon the next generation, we must force our politicians to end this scam on or money supply.

We can do this by calling, writing, and or emailing or Congressman/woman and our Senators. We can also vote in a presidential candidate that promises to end this scam, Ron Paul.

Our elected officials and addresses are found in the editorial pages of this newspaper.

All these solutions from government haven't worked. People are losing their jobs and America is losing its money daily. Why don't we just take the money away from the Federal Reserve System and give it back to the people? It would be very simple. A congressman already has a bill, HR2755, waiting to go through Congress to abolish the Federal Reserve System. HR2755 would be a great thing for our economy and is the focus of thousands of people protesting at the Federal Reserve on November 22, 2008. The Federal Reserve charges interest on the money it issues to the American people. Like a credit card debtor who never pays their full balance Americans are deep into debt to the private Federal Reserve System. People are also congregating November 22, 2008 to commemorate John F. Kennedy's valiant effort against the Federal Reserve Bank. Kennedy issued executive order 11110 that enables notes backed by silver to be issued by the government. A congressionally issued currency is in Article 1 section 8 of the constitution and a government issued currency made America the most prosperous country in the world until the Federal Reserve System. Kennedy's notes were discontinued after his death. People are looking for a solution and a new system without unaccountable bankers. The government has grown too complacent with our money and the people want it back.

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I don't know what happened to the America I once thought I knew. I was told every man is free in America. But I've had to file income taxes since my first paper route. According to the constitution no direct tax should be levied on revenue generated from income. And the sixteenth amendment wasn't uniformly ratified by all the states in the union, so why does income taxes even exist? Even the taxes I do give doesn't go back to America, it gets deposited into the privately controlled International Monetary Fund. I also don't see the freedom giving out Social Security Numbers. The Social Security money has been looted by Congress and the executive branch. The congress has been warning for years our money is gone. Now Congress is seriously considering federalizing Americans 401k's and IRA's so they can loot our retirement accounts. When I turned eighteen I learned freedom in America means threat of draft. How can our government call enlisting “Selective Service” when it's told to 18 year olds it’s mandatory? Now Obama's cabinet is calling for a never ending, involuntary service of every citizen. I was also told parents have the freedom to raise their children. However I read newspaper articles where children are stripped from their parents for not attending government school, for not taking vaccines or because some neighbor reported some infraction which could be a lie. We’re taxed, tracked, drafted and kidnapped all by our government. Those people fed up with the illegitimate system are invited to their local Federal Reserve Bank on November 22, 2008 to protest the slavery we’ve all had to endure.

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I was taught America attracted brave men and women ready to defend against tyranny. Our elected officials and the voters prove to me that never happens. Where was the public outrage against Israel for the declassified Gulf of Tonken attacks? Israel disguised their warships as Vietnamese then attacked United States warships to ignite the Vietnam war into a conflagration and hardly anyone took notice. Where was the congressional will to stop the unconstitutional and deceptively named Patriot Act? Few congressmen even had the time to read all of the unconstitutional mandates in the act. Why didn't America impeach George Bush five years ago before the Iraqi War began? There was plenty of evidence George Bush knew more about the events of September 11, 2001 than Saddam Hussein. His own advisors wrote the Project for a New American Century Document which called for a new “pearl harbor” event. Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida had been CIA assets since the war in Afghanistan. Osama's family was able to fly out of the country despite a nationwide ban on flying. The list of heinous crimes by the Bush Establishment could fill a library and still no national call for impeachment. Even after the Iraqi debacle people still put their faith in the executive branch with a deceptively titled “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act”. The true name should be “The Banker Takeover bill”. The passing of the bill showed the decimated strength of congress. The after bailout reelection showed most American voters are thoroughly neutered. The remaining brave patriots will assemble at the Federal Reserve Banks November 22, 2008 to protest the lies of our government. The people that go will all have the same question: Where have all the brave patriots gone?

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This whole financial crisis is because the United States doesn’t use constitutional money. For the past 95 years the privately owned Federal Reserve System has been charging the American people interest on money issued to the treasury. When our country was founded the framers of the constitution understood only government should print the money because the government they formed was a republic governed by the people. Only the people should control the monetary supply. For the first hundred years we had a prosperous country with government issued currency. The British Crown and European Banks wrote they feared our wealth. Now we have a Federal Reserve System admitting they are accountable to no government. World leaders are calling for a worldwide currency and a world government without American sovereignty. John F. Kennedy understood the need for constitutional money and wrote executive order 11110 to issue notes backed by silver to compete with our illegitimate fiat dollars. After his murder none of the silver notes were issued. Today we have bill HR2755 in congress to Abolish the Federal Reserve, the only choice to fix our financial crisis. Thousands are commemorating Kennedy's order at Federal Reserves across the nation on November 22, 2008 and they welcome anyone who really want to solve the Financial Crisis.

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