Letters to the editor

A high school proposal

FAYETTEVILLE — Considering all the information presented in the papers, and the results of the vote, maybe the school board needs a change in members who could bring a new approach to this subject. Think about it.
Jim E. Wimberly / Fayetteville

Justice and restraint

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said, "Invest in America, buy a congressman." History tells us that in the French Revolution, the peasants descended on the nobility with farm tools, bricks and any solid object they could wield, and that they used little restraint in their retributions. As usual, when tyranny and the arrogance of power rob, starve and oppress the people with corrupt laws and endless civil code, its conclusion was messy.

While the winds of change tell us that the handwriting is on the wall in America, I would remind my fellow Americans to show restraint when this cycle comes our way because our Founding Fathers gave us a heritage that included the Constitution, the Bible and the Bill of Rights. The French and other nations did not have these.

While I will not go so far as to tell the American people how long their ropes should be, I now urge restraint for when the people's courts truly do convene. While corrupt public officials, corrupt judges and their agencies have lied, stolen your savings and retirement, taxed and murdered your children and disallowed both the Constitution and the Bible at your incarceration trials, you must not be like them. You must aggressively use both the Constitution and the Bible when you put them on trial if we ever hope to restore justice to this once great nation. Our Founding Fathers passed these documents along to us as a gift to keep us free, and if we ignore them we do so to our own peril.

I recognize that many of these trials may only last five minutes or so when America is hungry and resources are scarce, and much ofthat time will be spent reading the charges, but Americans should still seek a degree of civility in justice. And besides, these defendants don't like hearing the Bible or the Constitution anyway. Not only that, but there might be five or 10 congressman left that are worth saving, so be fair. If we are to stop the cycle of injustice, we must also get past our public officials and news media to find out who has bribed and blackmailed them.
Jay W. Cole Jr. / Fayetteville

Can't we do better?

Just read the Sept. 16 headline "Greenland schools put literacy in their sights." Though childless, I compulsorily award $1,000 to these schools in annual taxes, and the best they can shoot for is mere literacy? Is math somewhere on the horizon? Good Lord. Mike Huckabee nailed it - I'm officially a resident of a banana republic.
Scott Breed / Winslow