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For seven years I held a 9/11 memorial service at the fairgrounds to commemorate the first responders that serve us 24/7 and our veterans. The community eventually did not support it with the turnout needed to make it financially stable. Apathy, I guess. I would like to say the President and his minions will desecrate that day if they turn the only reason for making it a national day of remembrance into anything other than a day to give thanks to our first responders -- that is not often done in this nation. A time when we can say thank you to the firemen, policemen, veterans, search and rescue folk, ambulance attendants, and all those others that are there for us 24/7. We need to remind the nation that this day be saved for that purpose only and let Obama have his day of service another time and not rape the meaning of 9/11 for his own uses and those of the people that would turn our nation and freedoms into a farce by reducing the Constitution to a pile of shredded paper and ideals.
-- Judith Mathat
Placerville, California

BRINGING DOWN THE HYPOCRISY
Re: Ken Blackwell & Ken Klukowski's Freedom of Conscience for Pro-Life Taxpayers:

Is this not the very same Left, who wish to force right to life doctors to performing abortions, that has assured that every citizen has the right to be a conscientious objector whenever the country needs protection from enemies foreign or domestic? Consistency on all matters may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but this hypocrisy is mind boggling.

Our Dear Leader's health care plan is teetering. Let's all give it a good hard push from the right and bring it down for good.
-- I.M. Kessel

STILL INALIENABLE
Re: Peter Ferrara's Catch Me If You Can:

Catching up on my reading, and came across your article, Mr. Ferrara.

There is no set of circumstances, such as that presented by the proponents of nationalized healthcare, which can serve as a legitimate basis for such an extension of power over the American people.

If one believes in a right which requires the power of taxation to exist, as is the case with the advocates of nationalized healthcare, you're a statist, which is the foundation of tyranny. For this reason, we challenged a king's claim that he had a right to rule over us, and formed the whole basis for the American Revolution. And, it is the reason why the megalomaniacs in Congress and the White House lie and dissemble in their attempt to control us.

As Jefferson put it, rights are inalienable, that is, incapable of being transferred or surrendered. They existed long before they were acknowledged in the Declaration of Independence, or enumerated in the Bill of Rights, and they do not depend upon the capriciousness of our leaders, or the confiscation of another man's property under the pretense of taxation.

If only of the American people understood more of what is being planned for them.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

PLAYING BY THEIR OWN RULES
Re: Daniel J. Flynn's Ted Kennedy's Last Will and Testament:

It appears always that the Democrats, as well as their liberal and leftist allies, never seem to grasp that the rules apply to them. So does Ted Kennedy's opportunistic request surprise anyone? C'mon.
-- C. Kenna Amos Jr.