Letters to the Editor – The Storm Lake Times

Questions for SCOTUS hearing

Hearings on the confirmation of Judge Jackson to be a justice of the Supreme Court will begin soon. I sent the following to all members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and hope she will be asked:

James L. Eliason |Storm Lake

I am grateful for the courage of area residents, including Alan Lopez, Angie Snyder and Pastor James Roland, for their voices of clarity regarding immigration issues and the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) program. Their voices and the stories and editorials shared in recent issues of The Storm Lake Times, need to be heard by our elected officials.

Rev. David Halaas |Sioux City

A couple years ago I protested at the capitol in Des Moines. If we had done one- tenth of what happened in D.C., Im sure Id be in prison and it wouldnt take months for convictions.

History wont be kind to the radical right wing base of the Republican Party, the gullible base who will believe anything one person says (without proof) that leads to a riotous attempt to overthrow the government. With truth you only have to tell it once, but with a lie, you have to keep telling lies to cover up. According to Factcheck.org, the instigator of the riot lied 30,573 times in four years an average of 21 a day. The first year started six lies a day but by the fourth, it was 39 a day. So you see about lies covering lies. Nine people died as a result of that riot.

After being attacked, one police officer died of multiple strokes the next day and another four officers committed suicide. That shows how traumatic it was. The base calls it a tour and my question to them is, how many people usually die on tours? The last time an orator incited crowds of violence 50 to 56 million died in WWII, the most costly ever. Does book banning sound familiar? The Civil War cost 750K lives and with the same ratio today would be seven million.

Maybe we should all be put on suicide watch because what we should be doing is saving the planet. Since were overpopulated Mother Nature seems determined to thin us out. Mother Nature can usually heal herself but we wont let her. People think more about money than the environment. Money is not the root of all evil but the love of money is; greed will be the death of us.

Dave Haynes |Duncombe

As we watch the horror of yet another war overseas (started under a Democrat administration by a foreign tyrant) we are reminded of the brilliance of our Founding Fathers by including the Second Amendment in our U.S. Constitution.

Remember, boys and girls, that to give up a little freedom for a little security produces neither of those situations.

Here is another brilliant thought by our Founding Fathers: the Second Amendment protects the First Amendment.

God bless America through these difficult times!

Jeff Myers |Newell

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