Redneck Review!!
5/1/15
Last week I picked on SB 1067, the proposal defeated in our state government some weeks ago, but now possibly a reason for Gov Otter to call a special session to review again the matter. 
It is easy to see why so many people are upset about the failure of our legislature to pass the measure, and I must admit, they have some commendable reasons. But...
As a famous old saying goes, "Those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them." It was and is my contention that the federal money we will get and the federal program that we will have available IS NOT WORTH THE RISK we will be taking in aligning ourselves with foreign governments on this matter.
Without argument, our USA is still the envy of the world so far as living conditions and personal freedom are concerned. Simply witness the hundreds of people who are streaming into this country annually, attempting to escape conditions in their own country and hoping to enjoy life in ours. So we should ask, why do they want to come here, and how did we get this reputation?
I submit that one need only look back historically about a hundred years for a possible answer! No time for detail here, but a glance back there will convince one that things were much different then! Government debt was trivial, and government involvement in the daily lives was the same. The remarkable progress that this relatively new country had made since its political birth with the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the constitutional government set up a decade later is unparalleled in the history of nations. I submit that freedom was the key, coupled with the opportunity provided by life here to work hard, make a living, and enjoy the fruits of one's own labor. To be  blunt, each man and family were pretty much on their own, and apart from the help given by their friends and neighbors at times, they knew that they were responsible for them selves, and never dreamed of looking to government for help.
So how is it different now? We are told that nearly 50 million people use food stamps. Entire families, many one parent, live entirely off of government programs, and the evidence is mounting that in many cases, this continues down through two and three generations. Children in school across the country enjoy subsidized breakfast and lunch provided again by a "generous" federal government, with little concern about the ability of their parents to provide for them themselves. Our social security system, set up in the 1930's has been raided by a money-grabbing government, and in the opinion of credible economists, will go bankrupt in the near future. Our "War on Poverty" set up by the Johnson administration in the 1960's has cost us billions if not trillions of dollars, yet the problem persists stubbornly even today.
Oh yes! How about the 18 plus trillion dollar national debt growing by the minute that hangs over our head today? Do the math and it computes out to over $50,000 for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. today, some 350 million we are told!
And ouch! Our 50 million aborted innocent children cry to heaven for justice, and at the same time threaten our economic future as the reduced number of workers in the near future will be saddled with the increased number of "baby boomer" retirees! So I ask, would we not be better off to go back to the old ways of doing things? I wonder!!!!
Jake Wren
Cottonwood

Peace State or Police State?
On communist day this year, May 1st, the national media announced an initial 20-million dollar federally-funded program to provide body cameras for (get this:) "small and medium-sized police departments" around the nation.
Do we the people remain complacent and unawares still?  Can we not see and feel the tentacles of this federally-spawned totalitarian power evermore enticing, gripping, and controlling our lives?  If we don't see it, why do we not see it?  Why do we continue so overly trusting?  What is it that keeps us so glibly unconcerned amidst it all?
The point here is not so much to argue whether police body cameras should or should not be, my concern being much, much broader than that.
Please just sit up and take notice, brothers and sisters!  This whole rising ambiance and culture that alleges ubiquitous "crime threats, terrorism, etc." is an evil ploy.  It has been purposely created, then deliberately driven daily into our psyche to keep people everywhere afraid, so as to more easily lure us all into their monstrous, ever-tightening web of control.
Idahoans, in particular:  At what point will you arise together and say "Enough!  Back off, you lying connivers!  We neither want nor need your intrusions.  If anything, we would go back - - all the way back - - to where a simple kindly cop walked his neighborhood, sometimes even with little children hanging on his leg."  That "Norman Rockwell" scene used to suffice for America, and can suffice still, if only all peace-loving (and peace-demanding) locals will insist upon it.  Let us simply refuse to buy into their manufactured "terror threat" lie!
I might add that IF today's police officers were trained to look and act like true PEACE officers, far fewer cameras would be needed, for far fewer incidences needing camera recording would ever arise.  
Cameras for huge city areas?  - maybe.  For our small, peaceful, rural towns?  - No thank you!
Carol Asher
Kamiah, Idaho

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