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May 15, 2008 Opinions |
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Letters
Appreciate God’s Blessings
To The Record-Courier:
Please allow me to express my very most heartfelt appreciation to your young columnist Miss Sam Ragsdale. I gained an immense insight into life’s proper prospectives. She, for such a young tender aged lady, quite properly sets the tone of our best realization of how extremely blessed we all are to experience all of God’s blessings day to day.
I have suffered so greatly since losing my parents 11 months ago. Her insights in the May 1 edition of The Record-Courier puts everything into its proper perspective when we reflect upon Paul’s trials.
Bill Voit
Florence, Ore.
Blessed To Live In Baker
To The Record-Courier:
Once again we can be very proud of our residents in Baker County!
Congratulations to Tom Isaacson and the Bel Canto choir for the third straight win of the state championship.
Former Baker County Librarian, Aletha Bonebrake, was one of only five extraordinary women in Oregon to achieve the prestigious White Rose Award by the March of Dimes. Aletha spearheaded the drive for the Library various activities. Peggi Timm and Mary Jane Guyer were past recipients of this award.
Carl Swiner of Sumpter received the President’s Call to Service Award for transporting veterans to Boise for medical care.
The founding of Historic Baker City was one of the very best decisions we ever made. We thank Ann Mahaffey for her leadership and enthusiasm. We are truly blessed to live in Baker County, Oregon.
Frances Burgess
Baker City
Concerned Gun Owner Speaks Up
To The Record-Courier:
I am writing this letter as a very concerned gun owner as well as a concerned citizen of this wonderful country we live in. I don’t want to become nothing more than a subject by people in power who can and do try to take my Constitutional rights from me. What concerns me even more are those of you who don’t understand or don’t seem to care!
Maybe you don’t understand that the Second Amendment of the Constitution of our United States is what holds the whole Constitution and our rights as citizens and not subjects to government power over us. What other rights are you willing to give up? Maybe freedom of speech, which has in many ways already become unlawful.
Now be careful what you say, it may insult someone. We have become so thin-skinned, that it has become normal to fight over words. Once these two rights are shortened or gone, you and I are no longer citizens, but have become subjects.
There is no workable way to stop all the law-breaking. But some believe taking your rights, in some magical way will stop crime. You have to be an idiot to believe that! There’s an old saying, but it’s true, “When you take the guns from honest citizens, only outlaws will have guns!”Why? Simple! They don’t obey the law to start with!
As a citizen of Oregon, it saddens me that this state has already been declared a winner for the Anti-Second Amendment gun-grabbers, all Democrats! Hillary Clinton has already been proven to want to reintroduce all the gun bans that we had to fight Bill Clinton over for his eight years in office. If it had not been for the NRA and members, we would have lost many of our rights. Make no mistake, if elected, she and Bill will try again! Obama is in the same boat. He’s fought and voted against every Pro-Second Amendment bill before him. He’s voted against your right of self-defense or defense of family! He wants a “common sense gun law,” whatever that means. Do you know that right now in some states right here in America you can face prosecution for self-defense, or defense of your family? It’s true, “common sense?”
Obama says citizens should not have the right to “concealed weapons permits, only cops.” Senator Obama is lying to us when he says he supports the Second Amendment. There is also another type of gun ban lifting its head in 13 states. It’s called “Coded Ammunition.” The gun grabbers in Congress are calling for registration of ALL ammunition buyers and ballistic “fingerprinting” of all ammunition and firearms. Any ammo you have now will have to be disposed of, possibly your gun also. I don’t know about you, but for myself, I don’t want any person in power especially one running for the highest office of the land, so dumb that he, she thinks taking your or my rights away is going to stop crime! I see a whole deeper reason for this, hope you do also.
Richard Fox
Baker City
County Needs Proactive Weed Program
To The Record-Courier:
Many of Baker County’s weeds call County rights-of-way “home.” It has been a priority of the Road Department not to allow their siblings to venture out into adjacent lands. This is a tall task, given declining revenue. Without a continued proactive weed program, weeds will quickly gain the upper hand.
I support the proposed Weed Levy and feel it will give a shot in the arm to the battle against weeds that call Baker County rights of way “home.”
Ken Helgerson
Baker City
Representation Needed
To The Record-Courier:
“Taxation without representation” - that is part of our treasured heritage from the very beginning of our country. But, take note, it is not saying “No taxation.” The important message is that we demand representation for those decisions.
It would help us get the true message if we thought of taxation as the means we have to do with our fellow citizens those tasks which are too demanding for us to do alone: build roads, promote new industry for our community, develop a tourist attraction with our historic downtown — for starters.
But never forgetting the importance of having our own representatives involved, we do have to make sure those representatives are up to the task.
Maryalys Urey
Baker City
Smith Will Make Things Happen
To The Record-Courier:
I have to respond to the Argus Observers endorsement of Cliff Bentz for District 60 state representative.
I usually never agree with newspapers today because the majority of them are owned by either a liberal or environmentalist.
So I find myself disagreeing with the Argus Observer in the case of their endorsement for Cliff Bentz for District 60 state representative.
I have been involved in politics in Eastern Oregon for over 50 years and in that time I have never heard of, met, spoke to or read of any accomplishments that he did. Now Eastern Oregon is a large area, but a small area when you are dealing with politics so if you are involved you will eventually meet everyone who is anyone politically involved.
I have met, spoke with, worked with and came to realize that Tim Smith is a well versed, competent, honest, involved person who knows all the problems of Eastern Oregon and the State of Oregon. He knows his way around Salem and both halls of the legislature.
Tim Smith will make things happen when he is elected as District 60 Representative to better the needs of District 60 and Eastern Oregon.
I ask the readers of the Argus Observer and all voters in District 60 to vote for Tim Smith and send the best to Salem to represent us.
James Burns
Weston, Ore.
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