PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: We Need More Like Parsons

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Your editorial of Friday, June 3, regarding the Bella Vista Property Owners Association was good up to a certain point.

I was surprised to see you scold the POA as much as you did.

The Bella Vista POA appears more and more like the representatives in Washington, D.C. - everyone in lockstep.

Never mind what the people want - in the POA’s case, never mind what the members want - it’s what they want.

Regarding their conflict-ofinterest document: My question, whose conflict of interest - the POA board’s or mine, as well as all the other residents of Bella Vista?

Exactly why is this document necessary? How long has it been since they (like Game & Fish) didn’t think it was necessary to follow the freedom of information rules. Is no one in good-old-boy Arkansas paying attention to what is going on in D.C.; Madison, Wisc.; as well as the other state governments that are going to do whatever they have to do to have things their way - taxpayers (dues payers)be damned!

Truth be told, we in Bella Vista need more Jim Parsons, not to muzzle the one we have.

PHYLLIS LAFFERTY / Bella Vista

NOTHING WRONG WITH AD

A federal lawsuit was filed recently because the Little Rock Transit Authority rejected the Coalition of Reason’s “Good Without God” ad. They said that it was too controversial and would probably just be vandalized.

I am an atheist. All this ad says is that you can be a good person without believing in God.

Why is that so controversial?

Why is me saying that I’m a moral person so offensive that it would drive people to vandalism?

I am an Arkansan. I am your neighbor. I am a good and moral person. If that offends you, I think you should re-examine your beliefs. I’m not leaving Arkansas.

I’m not leaving the country. I am here to stay.

I’m a nice guy … really.

DONALD MORTON / Bentonville

HOBSON SOUNDS LIKE OBAMA

While reading Art Hobson’s June 5 column (“United States no longer top nation,”) I asked myself, where have you seen this type of anti-American liberalism before? Then I realized it was in the speeches that Barack Obama delivers when visiting other nations. If that’s what passes for intellectualism, I’ll stick with my fundamentalist beliefs.

By the way, the reason Germany is “in the front rank of successful nations” is because the United States sacrificed lives, blood and fortune to defeat the Nazis and spent decades protecting half of that country from communists until Republican presidents won the Cold War, liberating the other half of Germany.

RICHARD ADAMS / Fayetteville