DEAR EDITOR:
Ms. Pampuch, in your July 12 column you didn’t mention the best
part of being a liberal, the privilege of living in a fantasy world
with no recognizable connection to reality.
DEAR EDITOR:
Ms. Pampuch, in your July 12 column you didn’t mention the best part of being a liberal, the privilege of living in a fantasy world with no recognizable connection to reality.
Addressing your many errors in order:
• The Pilgrims came here in order to practice religious persecution, not religious freedom. They left England for the Netherlands to avoid persecution by the Anglicans. They left the Netherlands because their children were losing the faith in secular schools. Your notions of separation of church and state would have been alien to them; you would probably have been pressed or hanged as a heretic.
• I remind you that there is no separation of church and state in the Constitution. There is a prohibition of enforcing federal religious notions on the states, which is exactly what you are advocating and what the courts are doing. What you call “separation of church and state” is actually “suppression of Christianity.” It is forbidden.
• You call same sex marriage a matter of equal rights. Although I think the duties of marriages are as a mountain to the pebble of the privileges, the government may grant special privileges in order to secure a compelling state interest like quality of the citizenry. Heterosexual marriage is the fertile ground from which all nations spring and deserves the reward of privilege. Homosexual “marriage” is a benefit only to the egos of the participants and deserves nothing.
• On the grounds of “privacy” the Supreme Court has allowed the murder of 40 million human beings and barred states from legislating sexual behavior. See above regarding quality of the citizenry. Have you given even one second of thought to the impact on our society of these decisions or are you completely focused on your own whims, like a true liberal?
Based on the experience of other nations that have unleashed homosexuality, in about 30 years a third to one half of the men will not give a damn about women. Imagine, if you will, how daily life for women and children will be changed by that.
You charged that the Patriot Act violates the Fourth Amendment by allowing unreasonable searches of third-party records without notification of the searchee. That is wrong.
The Patriot Act allows searches of third-party records with a warrant and in the course of a terrorism investigation. The Fourth Amendment specifically allows warranted searches. Searches in the course of an investigation are reasonable. There is ample legal precedent, wire taps for example, that notification of the parties being searched is not required and never has been.
Since the facts of the Patriot Act have been reported in The Dispatch and the requirements of the Fourth Amendment are plain with even the most cursory perusal, I can only conclude that you have intentionally presented false information with intent to deceive your audience. Naughty, naughty.
Finally, Ms. Pampuch, on patriotism.
All of your positions are for personal benefit. You have no thought or concern whatsoever for the welfare of your nation. You give no evidence of being any kind of a patriot. The things that you value, free speech, religious freedom (which you discourage), democracy (the United States is a republic), equality, and privacy have no roots whatsoever in the founding principles of this nation; they are the creations of socialism.
Stuart Allen, Gilroy
Submitted Thursday, July 15 to ed****@****ic.com.
