Dear Editor,
Be assured that I will gladly celebrate Sept. 17. Thank you
Martin Cheek and your persuasive piece. I fondly remember your
parents, Ray and Gisela. I plan to also remind others to celebrate
Constitution Day because it seems that our Bill of RIghts has made
a pass through the paper shredder. In particular I am thinking of
the First and Fourth Amendments to the O.S. Constitution.
Celebrate Sept. 17
Dear Editor,
Be assured that I will gladly celebrate Sept. 17. Thank you Martin Cheek and your persuasive piece. I fondly remember your parents, Ray and Gisela. I plan to also remind others to celebrate Constitution Day because it seems that our Bill of RIghts has made a pass through the paper shredder. In particular I am thinking of the First and Fourth Amendments to the O.S. Constitution.
Those celebrating their freedom of speech and of peaceful assembly at the recent DNC and RNC were pepper sprayed, lasered, knocked down, handcuffed, threatened, confined and removed. Some were arrested without cause and without charge.
Some of us no longer feel secure in our homes and private lives because of illegal wiretapping which breaches our Fourth Amendment rights. It seems that our government is given a free pass.
Martin mentioned the taxpayer dollars wasted on confinements of the Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII, which probably would be better spent shortening the effort to the end war. The same could be said now as taxpayer dollars fly into prison contracts to build detention centers to hold immigrants. Immigration reform would be a better direction of our resources as these people make our economy hum. It seems we shoot ourselves in the foot by lavishing detention center contracts on private firms.
Again because of a certain bias that has no connection to national security we waste valuable resources.
It seems that the only fear Americans have is that of our own government ignoring our own Constitution. How sad!
Mary Zanger, Hollister
