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Sudanese Youngster Writes to Reporter Ed Oliver
I would like to introduce
you about the ongoing civil war in Sudan. The war displaced the
entire region of Christian community. People keep going, not knowing
where to go.
Some gone to neighbouring
country.
Others remained and faced
the challenge hoping that the God who create them will one time
one day bring peace.
As land southern Sudan is
blessing land having natural resources, while northern have none.
As the result Government feel jealous and enforce the Islamic to
the southerness with an interest to own the southerness resources.
As religion southern people rejected the Islamic and war broke out.
The
invading government [northern]
part who control the power feel thirsty when missed a day to kills
southerness. People die every day, week, month and years back dated
since 1956 or even before that.
I believe, knowing the nature
of problem will provide the solution. I am glad
to met you. I want you to
convey the suffering of southern Sudanese to the international world
and democracy leaders and take a look. Every thing in this world
have a solution and we are part of world. I was displaced from the
hand of my loving parents and joined the refuge life when I am eight
years old. Through my life experience, I can tell war is bad business
and good teacher to teach people.
It is out of a strange dream
to be in this challenging life. It happened suddenly and
I was taken away from my loving
parents. The world is beautiful place accepting and expecting for
survival. Today I am a yes person, not like yesterday in the land
my parents. I have choice. thanks.
God bless you.
I will keeps in touch with
you.
- friend Dan
Bigotry
in Sharon Causes Concern
Catholics Subject of Ridicule
I suppose political correctness
in Massachusetts is now headed down the toilet. Don’t mock gays,
blacks, Hispanics, Jews, or Muslims. But, what the hell, let’s nail
the Christians, and especially the Catholics, who have this tired
old belief that abortion is bad, being gay is not normal and Christianity
is better than Islam.
Hey, remember who brought
you here. Many Catholics died during wars to protect everyone’s
freedom.
Gee, I wonder where the ACLU
is? Perhaps they are busy with the NAMBLA case, assuring child predators
that they have the right to ...
Just remember folks, liberals
are not safe in a totalitarian state, even one that they attempt
to create.
- Ron Conti
Oro Valley, AZ
Where’s Senator Kennedy?
Has anyone heard from Senator
Ted Kennedy on this matter? He has been insulted with this bigotry
as much as any other Catholic in his state and in this nation. He
probably doesn’t even care that a public school district slapped
him and his fellow Catholic constituents in the face.
Sharon Public Schools will
support diversity in anything devoid of moral direction and it looks
as if it will tolerate insulting the people of Jesus Christ without
blinking an eye.
Does this school have a “principle?”
Probably not. They wouldn’t
know one if it slapped them in the face.
- Kenneth R.
Yagodinski
Bellevue, NE
Time Schools ‘Called on the Carpet’
It’s time our schools are
called on the carpet for bashing Catholics and other Christians.
It seems for those of us who call ourselves believers, any kind
of insult is fair game. Particularly in light of the kid gloves
being used on Muslims, it’s time our hypocritical countrymen/women
had a few lawsuits tacked on their tails.
- Charlotte
Vacano
Waynesboro, VA
Mass. has ‘Brains Broiled’
The native Californians figured
out a long time ago that the people in Massachusetts have had their
brains broiled and then deep-frozen. How dare you dump on any religion,
let alone Catholics?
We know of no one that has
done anything to you, but maybe that is the problem: they should
have.
- J. Martin
Auburn, CA
‘Religious Bigotry’ Alive
Religious bigotry is alive
and well in Massachusetts. It appears that prejudice against Catholics,
so common in Massachusetts a hundred years ago, had simply gone
underground. It also appears that the dominance of left-wing Lords
of Tolerance (unless, of course, it’s somebody they hate) in the
education establishment and in Massachusetts politics has emboldened
these hate-filled hypocrites to come out of the sewers they’ve been
hiding in.
After they’re done with Catholics,
who’s next? Baptists? Methodists? Jews?
- Michael Oberndorf
Apache Junction, AZ
Bashing Shows Eroded Morals
The article I read about Catholic
bashing at Sharon Schools is just one more example of our country’s
continuing erosion of moral character. The excuse used by the board
and teachers was lame at best. It certainly had to do with fear
for their jobs rather than any heartfelt apologies.
Our children need direction
from their teachers as well as their parents, as they spend a great
deal of their formative years in their care as well. Much of liberal
thought is devoid of moral direction. Liberal thought does stimulate
ideas, but all ideas are not good ones and without a moral foundation,
a good idea cannot be distinguished from a bad one. This is where
our teachers should come in.
There is no question that
the liberal-minded teachers of this school used their own beliefs
in making the decision to applaud the outfits worn by those children.
There exists our problem.
Our teachers today have grown up without proper direction or morals
and therefore have nothing to pass along to those they teach. We,
as a society, must turn this cycle around. I thought Sept.11 was
a wake-up call to build character again in our country, but perhaps
a few months time has led us back down the same old path of moral
depravity.
- Neal A. Arcuri
Boardman, Ohio
Bigots Are Not Funny
I want to commend you for
running an article that deals with the bashing of the Catholic Church.
I agree 100 percent with Mr. Doyle of the Catholic Action League.
So many people think it’s funny to mock the Catholic Church, but
they wouldn’t dare make fun of Judaism.
Catholics are partially to
blame for this, because they all have a tendency to laugh at these
jokes. This is one Catholic who won’t put up with it.
- Jill Fischer
Monroeville, PA
‘Christian’ a Distasteful Word
The Executive Director of
the Catholic Action League, C. J. Doyle, has characterized the incident
as “an astonishingly crude insult to the Catholic religion, which
betrays a callous contempt for the beliefs and sensibilities of
Roman Catholics.”
Criticism of unjust, corrupt
institutions through such costumes is a legitimate part of our political
heritage. I suggest Mr. Doyle, and the world in general, would be
far more offended by a public documentation of Catholic history.
Pope Innocent III murdered
more Christians in a single day than the Roman Emperor Nero did
in his entire life. What costume would Mr. Doyle approve to represent
Pope Pius XII, who presided over the Catholic Adolph Hitler and
predominantly Catholic German Army, yet lifted not a finger to stop
the systematic torture and murder of millions of Jews and then smuggled
tens of thousands of war criminals to safety through the Vatican
“Rat Lines?” This is the man the current Pope wanted to make a saint!
The Lord Jesus Christ said
that we would know false prophets by their fruits (deeds). If Catholics
are really so offended by such characterizations, let them distance
themselves from the unbiblical doctrines and from the worship of
its merciless enforcers which have made “Christian” such a distasteful
word.
- Robert L.
Wombaugh
Harkers Island, NC
Sharon Teachers: Do Your Jobs
I just read the article in
the Massachusetts News regarding the Sharon High School Halloween
party incident. What the hell just happened? I mean, kids are going
to be kids, and the concept of good taste doesn’t always sink in
until they are almost out of college.
But why didn’t the teachers
do something? They need to be a symbol of authority in the schools
where they teach.
Over and above the fact that
I’m Catholic and extremely appalled by what happened, we need to
look at another question here. Why aren’t the teachers doing their
jobs? Yes, teach them math, science and English, but teach them
right from wrong as well.
What would have happened if
a teenager had walked in there with his face painted black and claimed
to be Al Jolson? Would something have been done about it, or would
they have just laughed it off? And, yes, it is the same thing.
Regardless, when those in
authority not only fail to put a stop to the actions of these students,
but initially support said actions, they become part of the problem.
They are promoting discrimination.
- Chuck Abraham
Noblesville, IN
Catholics Second Class Citizens
If this were any other religious
group being publicly mocked, it might qualify as a crime of hate,
or, at the very least, discrimination.
Were this incident to concern
people of color, you can rest assured that Jesse or big Al would
be in the forefront spouting his indignation at such an unconstitutional
act. But, after all, it’s just the Catholics. It seems that the
Catholics have joined an ever-increasing group of second class citizens.
I wonder what, if anything,
this portends for the future of America. I believe there is a saying
that ends with, “And when they came for me, there was no one left
to care.”
- William Trapp
Roswell, NM
Fathers
Also Roiled
Gov. Swift Is Pathetic Hypocrite
In the Beacon Hill Beat (online),
“Swift ‘Outs’ Running Mate,” Governor Swift and her running mate,
Patrick Guerriero, “agreed to disagree.” That’s nice.
But can someone important
from our Massachusetts government tell heterosexual men and fathers,
and the families and friends who support them, when men will be
recognized as equal partners in raising children, or when a man
and his child(ren) will constitute a family in the eyes of the state
bureaucracy? If someone from on high cannot tell us when or if this
will occur, can Swift and Guerriero truly “praise each other for
recognizing the importance of fairness and equality in public policies?”
Our Commonwealth, with the
likes of Swift at the helm, is a pathetic hypocrisy, and our legislature
and judiciary are light-years behind on this issue while numerous
other “family” alternatives gain attention and recognition.
- Mike Franco
State Co-Chair
The Fatherhood Coalition
Glad to Live in NH
I am glad that I live in New
Hampshire. When lawyers from the Boston Bar Association are in conflict
with the Massachusetts Bar Association and want even more unfairness
in child support guidelines, I sit here and shake my head.
Where has the hysteria come
from concerning the support of our children? Fathers are more important
than a paycheck. So many fathers’ constitutional rights are taken
away from them in the family courts that we all should be scared
to death that other areas of our lives are in jeopardy.
I know how unfair the laws
are in Massachusetts towards fathers. My brother lives on the Cape
and when his wife abandoned him and their three small children,
it took more than a year for the courts to finally realize she had
no intent on coming back and to finally award him custody. It took
over two years for the state to even go after the mother for child
support. They did not even include any arrearages. I can only pray
that the American people wake up and realize the injustices that
are being done within our family courts.
As an outside observer from
New Hampshire, I hope, in this case, that the Massachusetts Bar
wins out over the zealous, unfair, greedy Boston Bar Association.
- Name Withheld
Newington, NH
Child Support System Is Unfair
I applaud your exposing the
child support guidelines to the public. The women of today play
the system. The court system has to do away with the $15,000 threshold
guideline because it encourages women not to work full time. It
undermines what they strived for in the beginning: equality.
My wife, for example, wouldn’t
work full time; she quit when she reached $8,000 in order to receive
almost $4,200 in tax returns. It paid for her to stay out of work.
Do away with the threshold
or give it to the fathers as well. Twenty seven percent of my gross
pay is outrageous, $158/wk for 1 child. Why should she work? It’s
creating another society of unemployed people.
Please keep up the pressure
on our gov’t. I know they want to hold fathers responsible, and
to eliminate welfare, but they went overboard.
-
Joe Liquori
West Springfield
Being a Male Is Criminal in Courts
Yes, being a male is criminal
in American family courts. In the middle of my family court experience
of five years, a lawyer (who is not supposed to say bad things about
judges) told me family courts act much like fascist Nazis. At the
time, I thought his statement might be a little extreme. After a false arrest and becoming
the only dad to win on a custody decision in the Wisconsin Court
of Appeals in 2000, I must now concede that “Nazi” is the correct
term. “By the people” has now become “By the Judiciary,” as the
family courts continue to operate with bias and no Constitution.
- Keith Trost
Hillsboro, WI
Fathers Considered ‘Billfolds’
Readers ought to be aware
that fathers are just as capable of parenting as mothers are; they
have just as much love and are as essential to the child and to
the healthy development of the child. A closer assessment of what,
in the eyes of the Commonwealth, constitutes so-called “child support”
is being made. The Boston Bar Association is resisting any consideration
that a father is anything other than a billfold. We can expect no
less from a Bar affiliated with corporations that love it when more,
more, more money is spent.
Angst breeds consumption.
As a father myself, there is not a better way to create angst than
to disregard the equal rights and equal responsibilities of each
parent. One day I will get to see my kids.
- Robert Gartner
Houston, Texas
Mothers Pay Support Also
Re. Article entitled “Fathers
See Rift Among Lawyers.” Whoever wrote this article has no idea
about equal rights. Why does the author speak only about mothers
who work and mothers who collect child support? The law is not written
about mothers. I am currently a father in MA and my spouse pays
support to me. Please, next time remember this is the year 2002
and not 1950; moms pay child support too.
- Daniel Deroche
Springfield
Children Without Both Parents Suffer
On January 14, 2001, CNN’s
Crossfire program was interviewing the President of the National
Organization for Women. She said a “new study shows that only one-in-five
children are affected by divorce.” She clearly and intentionally
implied that parents and children really don’t suffer from divorce.
It is an irrefutable, undeniable,
and grounded statistical fact that children need fathers. Father-absence
is the most destructive force affecting our children today. This
is a glowing reality, reflected in the findings of hundreds of legitimate
scientific studies. The decline of, and/or criminalization of, fatherhood
are major forces behind many of the most disturbing problems that
plague our country.
Here’s some authentic scientific
data, which couldn’t be more conclusive.
Fatherless homes account for:
- 63% of youth suicides.
(US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Census)
- 71% of pregnant teenagers.
(US Dept. of Health and Human Services)
- 90% of all homeless and
runaway children.
(US Dept. of Health and Human Services)
- 70% of juveniles in state-operated
institutions.
(US Dept. of Justice, Special Report Sept. 1988)
- 85% of all adolescents with
behavior disorders.
(Center for Disease Control)
- 80% of rapists motivated
with displaced anger.
(Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14 1978)
- 71% of all high school dropouts.
(National Principals Report on the state of high schools)
- 75% of all adolescent patients
in chemical abuse centers.
(Rainbows for all God’s children)
- 85% of all youths sitting
in prisons.
(Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections
1992)
Woman is the gender that is
supposedly the more emotional, caring, and sensitive gender of us.
I’m a man, yet I understand the aching heart of a child yearning
for the love of their parents, and for the normalcy and security
of “family.” How can so many women band together and have such a
chilling and selfish disregard for even their own children? And
how can American media, in all good conscience, continue to present
such a perspective like that of the National Organization of Women,
and to portray that perspective as normal and acceptable? Does the
American media have any heart and conscience?
- Leonard Misner,
author
In The Children’s Best Interest
Waukegan, IL
Globe Fears Link to Drugs/Domestic Violence
One very important matter
remains unreported: the link between substance abuse, including
alcohol, and domestic violence.
The women’s movement denies
it because if it proves to be true, it will put their movement out
of business. The Globe is afraid that readers will discover that
the “Framingham 16” (including victims) all had familiarity with
substances and their abuse.
Whether alcohol is an accelerant
or catalyst may not be understood, but we all know that it is present
in most domestic violence cases, in both sexes and all persuasions.
Chapter 209A has destroyed
the courts and created a war between the sexes.
- Milton H.
Raphaelson
Sturbridge
Molestation
Should be Taken Seriously
Globe Hides that Teachers Union Undermines Values
In your remarks regarding
the Globe article, “Accusations swirl on petition tactics” (Boston
Globe, 1/9/02), you note that the chief person who is determined
to undermine and destroy the legality of the marriage petition is
both the chief lobbyist for the Mass. Gay and Lesbian Political
Caucus (MGLPC) and a chief lobbyist for the MA Teachers Assoc. (MTA):
Arline Isaacson. You also note that the Globe does not make this
fact clear. I maintain that the Globe is being secretive about this
fact.
If parents were aware that
Isaacson is using the power of the MGLPC together with that of the
MTA to get huge amounts of money into public schools in order to
get her message imprinted upon the minds and hearts of our school-age
children, perhaps these parents would be able to prevent this damage
from being done.
Arline Isaacson has been instrumental
in procuring $800,000 to be added to the $1.5 million of our tax
money to be used to indoctrinate school children in the belief that
same-sex sex acts are approved, and that those who engage in these
acts should have the same legal rights as a man and a woman who
are legally married. Therefore, these children are being taught
that same-sex sex acts outside of marriage are good and should be
advocated in the same way that the marital acts of a married couple
(one male and one female) are advocated.
These children are therefore
not told that they should wait until they are married before they
engage in sex acts that have been, up to now, reserved for married
couples. If these children act upon this message, they will think
that it is perfectly acceptable for them to engage other children
in these acts.
To me, this is encouraging
a form of child abuse wherein children will use one another for
sexual exploitation. Parents will have no right to object and if
they do object, they will be labeled “homophobic.” But the Globe
editors think this kind of advocacy is perfectly fine.
They have known about Isaacson’s
advocacy under the powerful umbrella of the MGLPC and the MTA for
many years. But they and the MTA leaders want to keep this linkage
secret. Therefore, parents and taxpayers are deceived.
- Alice Slattery
Framingham
Cardinal Law Should Be Tried
I read with great interest
James Carroll’s article, “Priest Victims Victimized Twice,” in the
Boston Globe. Interesting how he uses the term “cult of secrecy”
a few times in describing the absolute abuse of power an established
mainstream religion like the Catholic Church used to hide its mishandling
of this sad affair.
Either this matter gets handled
fairly and the parties involved, which would include Cardinal Law
and others who did everything to protect Father John Geoghan,
be brought to justice, or you hang up the scales of justice.
You cannot protect one religion.
It’s ironic that in another part of the Globe the same day, it mentions
that the authorities are trying to find out where supposed “cult”
member Rebecca Corneau has left her supposed newborn baby and to
take legal action to take this latest child away. The article speaks
of how “a court can intervene to protect children from possible
neglect when there have been prior incidents of neglect.”
I’m wondering: Who is the
worse cult here? It seems that the Catholic Church’s conduct seems
to be a hundredfold worse than what this Attleboro sect has done.
Hundreds of lives have been neglected and damaged by the Catholic
Church’s “cult of secrecy” and it’s time that the law treats this
case equally.
- Joseph Rizoli
Framingham
Lost Respect for Cardinal
I believe in the teachings
of the Catholic Church. I used to have the utmost respect for Cardinal
Law. But he can no longer lead (I wouldn’t want my picture with
him). Nobody would have criticized him for defrocking a child molester,
especially a repeat offender.
- Robert Holmes
Psychiatry: Undermining the Catholic Church
Catholic Church leadership
foolishly listened to psychiatrists for advice and “help” in handling
alleged pedophile priest John Geoghan. They followed the advice
of these psychiatrists who said he was cured of pedophilia (four
times). Now the Church is under heavy attack for taking advice from
these frauds.
Fifty percent of psychiatrists
surveyed are atheist, while 90% of psychologists claim to be either
atheist or agnostic, which makes sense, as they are trained to believe
that man isn’t spiritual, but a stimulus-response animal with no
will of his own. Isn’t it bizarre that all Catholic priests must
study the anti-religious subject of psychology as part of their
training?
For their own survival, it’s
time that Catholics and other religions stick by their own doctrine
and cast aside the work of these incompetent, anti-religious, baby-drugging,
electro-shocking charlatans in white coats.
- Kevin Hall
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Somerville
MassNews
Is Sometimes Loved
Why Are Churches Silent on Social Issues?
While Mass News has done a
great job in exposing, for example, DSS, there is one area that
has received little coverage. Little or no attention has been given
to religious organizations that denounce publicly the social evils
in this state.
For example, when have we
heard the leading cleric in this state, Cardinal Bernard Law, come
out forcefully against the DSS attack on families (and he claims
to be pro-life) or the radical homosexual agenda?
I think that is it long overdue
that Mass News takes on the religious organizations of this state
forcefully (inside a velvet glove) for their silence.
- Neil F. Dunn
Danvers
Editor’s Comment: It is
has been a major disappointment to see almost all of the churches
and temples hunkered down in Massachusetts, Catholic, Protestant
and Orthodox. Hopefully, they will begin to see that they must be
a part of any change before we can counter our secular society.
We have reported two stories about the failure of the Catholic church
to do anything at Boston College when a Unitarian was appointed
to head the department that teaches undergraduate theology students.
We should do more in this area. If you get us more subscribers to
hire more writers, we shall. We need your help!
Get Off the Pot
I am getting quite tired of
the anti-marijuana babble presented in your otherwise fine publication.
Let’s cut to the chase: How many people has marijuana killed or
damaged compared to alcohol or tobacco?
Such statistics would be a
powerful argument to support your case against the plant.
Logic demands that if the
latter substances cause more harm to public health, you would be
advocating the prohibition of tobacco and alcohol. I do not see
this in MassNews.
As for the argument that elements
of pot are stored in the user’s system, the same can be said for
tobacco. On the other hand, cocaine and heroin do not remain in
the user’s system. Does this make you feel better about the use
of these substances?
We do not need a nanny-government,
although children should continue to be protected from all recreational
drugs.
- Henry Szubzda
N. Billerica
Editor’s Comment: We’ve
written major pieces on both sides of this issue, with a full libertarian
comment by Prof. Jeffrey A. Miron of Boston University. As we have
said many times, there could be an intelligent discussion about
whether we should continue to criminalize its use; but in our opinion,
there can be no such discussion that it is harmless. That is what
the state’s Libertarian Party appears to believe every year when
it participates in the Pot Rally on Boston Common – with many children
present.
MassNews a ‘Sad Waste’
I have just reviewed a few
back issues of the Massachusetts News. I conclude that your paper’s
sole purpose and editorial mission is the elimination of homosexuals
and homosexuality from our society. I am surprised that anyone could
make hatred and discrimination against other human beings their
life’s work and still think that they are not reprehensible in the
eyes of God. At any rate, it seems like a sad waste of a life’s
work.
- James MacPherson
Boston
Editor’s Comment: We would
appreciate any indication you can find that we seek to eliminate
homosexuals from our society. We would like to eliminate homosexuality,
but we all know this will never happen in this imperfect world.
We would also like to eliminate smoking from our society, but we
have no desire to eliminate smokers. If we can help to lower the
molestation of children, including teenagers, we will be happy.
Thanks for ‘Courage’
I worked on the drive to get
our state income taxes reduced back to the rate before it was “temporarily”
raised. I know how hard it can be to get enough signatures, and
how many challenges you face. And of course, I know how radical
the homosexual lobby can be.
I want to thank you for your
courage to stand up against same sex “marriages.” It is refreshing
to see a newspaper with courage go against liberalism and what liberals
consider “tolerance.” I want to say I am not against homosexuals
as individuals; they can make their own choices and they should
not be attacked or harmed in any way. I am against the sin of the
homosexual act and the attempt to legitimize it as an acceptable
behavior.
Marriage is a very sacred
union and needs to be seen that way, or else we are in very serious
trouble. Divorce has decimated our families. Unless we change the
way society values marriage and the commitment two people make to
one another and to God, we will continue down the path of destruction
and despair, while the real victims are our children.
- Dennis Palmer
Bellingham
Thank You
Thank you for your support
of the American family.
- John F. Wells
Russell, KS
Other
Interesting Thoughts
Jackson, Sharpton are Opportunists
The Reverends Jesse Jackson
and Al Sharpton are mere opportunists. I can’t believe that Harvard
would buckle down to the demands of Jackson and Sharpton as buoyed
by the race-baiting Boston Globe.
Isn’t it clear that most blacks
are embarrassed by the raising of the limbo stick for them when
it comes to education? The artificial wedge of “diversity,” as it’s
called, is a waste of precious resources. It is unfair to qualified
candidates for the school.
I wish that college students
would be accepted by their scholarly credentials without racial
clues. Entrance exams should be given via code names as private
as one’s ATM password. Let’s really level the playing field. Only
then will the deserving students have equal self-respect.
I think it’s time for assignment
editors of television news and desperate newspapers like the Globe
to agree not to fuel the circus performances of Jackson and Sharpton.
These gentlemen have built
their careers on bigotry and division. As long as there are media
events, they will polarize and prompt victimhood and hatred from
both sides.
- Russell Dodworth
Republicans Fractured
The bigger “coming out” party
needs to be held for the reactionary fundamentalists, formerly posing
as Republicans, who would rather vote for an anti-abortion socialist
than for a Libertarian who thinks Big Brother has no business in
people’s bedrooms or their wallets. How Massachusetts Republicans
have managed to fracture into extremes of the loony left and radical
right is beyond belief.
- Christopher
Burian
Waltham
Gun Regulations Are a Threat
In a report filed by Mike
Yacino, head of the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League (GOAL)
on January 9, 2002, allegations of unethical behavior and regulatory
fraud were leveled against the Attorney General’s office over the
far-reaching regulations placed on gun manufacturers and dealers
in the state.
Among these regulations are
requirements that firearms shipped to or sold in the state must
have certain “child proof” features.
GOAL’s report makes several
startling revelations about the questionable behavior and practices
in ramming these ill-conceived regulations through and around the
regulatory and legislative processes. The report also documents
several memos that clearly show that the office of Attorney General
Luther Scott Harshbarger was less concerned about solving a perceived
problem than simply banning non-defective handguns without legislative
process or support.
The full report is available
at: http://www.goal.org/fraud/report.htm.
- William Dutton
Pembroke
DSS ‘Ruining Families’
I am currently going through
a situation with DSS similar to what I have read about in MassNews.
Someone anonymously reported me and my husband, and when we got
into an argument, DSS declared that it was domestic violence. DSS
also went against me when I wouldn’t take a restraining order out.
It is ridiculous what these
people get away with. They are abusing our children and ruining
families. I love my children and am fighting to get them back.
- Dawn Lynch
Effingham, SC
Anthony Lewis Is Troubled by Extremist Ideology
I agree. Mr. Lewis appears
to allow good judgment and fairness to become clouded by his extremist
liberal ideology. He
seems to be a leftist ideologue, not concerned with publicly addressing
or refraining from apparent conflicts of interests.
Considering that most of the
detainee’s time in incarceration was during the Clinton administration,
it makes Lewis look a bit, well, goofy to be assailing Mr. Ashcroft.
But then President Clinton was a liberal Democrat, while
Mr. Ashcroft works within a more conservative Republican administration.
Were the circumstances regarding
the deportation identical, but happening on the watch of liberal
Democrats, Lewis might, predictably, be singing another tune, or
be altogether silent on the matter.
- Michael P.
Cameron
Atlanta, GA
A Friend in TV Land
Unfortunately, the views of
your paper, not being politically correct, are underrepresented.
However, you should be aware that we have friends out there in TV
land.
On a recent “Law and Order
Special Victims Unit,” an episode was devoted to a case of male
rape. Not only was this totally non-p.c., but also the female rapists
were the strident, brash, holier-than-thou feminists that caused
women such as myself to drop out of the feminist movement years
ago.
The victim was no saint, an
issue used only to point out unfairness in trials regarding any
rape victims. The program was graphic in description, but a learning
experience definitely (that a man who is raped can be stimulated
was just one fact brought out).
Frequently, “Law and Order,”
in all its three versions, deals with situations no other program
will touch. Frequently they are based on true situations. This program
is constantly nominated for awards but never earns what it deserves.
Please watch the shows, note the sponsors, and when it’s appropriate,
write the producers or sponsors. We know we can do plenty with boycotts
and negative letters. We can accomplish even more with positive
publicity.
- Annie Guenther
Roslindale
Sexual Habits Should be Private
I’d rather not be “aware”
of anyone’s sexual habits, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual.
What does the word “aware” actually mean? I am aware that everybody
in this world defecates. Should we have a special day for defecation
awareness?
I’m convinced that the word
“aware” is a backdoor term for indoctrination of an ideology or
an acceptance of a certain behavior. Do these homosexuals really
think that people aren’t aware that homosexuality exists?
Do we really need a special
day for this private activity to be slammed in our faces, and for
us to either accept it or be called a bigot or a homophobe?
- Sean
Feeding Hi
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