Letters to the Editor

Punks with bad dogs
I was disgusted when I read in The Pinnacle about the loss of
Bennie, the family cat.
This pit bull owner has the mentality of many pit bull owners: I
have a bad pit bull and it is to be feared. He also instantly
realized he was responsible for the death of the cat, and ran
(peddled) away.
Recently there was a similar cat killing incident in San Jose. I
believe the individual involved was booked, and may be facing jail
time.
Not all pit bulls are thugs, but more of them show up in the
media as maiming, or killing, animals, and sometimes humans. If
some one is willing to start, and maintain a reward fund for
locating the individual involved, I will start it with $50.
My sympathies to the Sutton family for the sad loss of a Bennie,
a family member.
Dick Murphy
San Martin
Punks with bad dogs

I was disgusted when I read in The Pinnacle about the loss of Bennie, the family cat.

This pit bull owner has the mentality of many pit bull owners: I have a bad pit bull and it is to be feared. He also instantly realized he was responsible for the death of the cat, and ran (peddled) away.

Recently there was a similar cat killing incident in San Jose. I believe the individual involved was booked, and may be facing jail time.

Not all pit bulls are thugs, but more of them show up in the media as maiming, or killing, animals, and sometimes humans. If some one is willing to start, and maintain a reward fund for locating the individual involved, I will start it with $50.

My sympathies to the Sutton family for the sad loss of a Bennie, a family member.

Dick Murphy

San Martin

Thankful for community

I am so proud of our community. As I write, these tears of joy and sadness flow because in Ron’s sudden passing to glory land, the whole community, the church family, one whole big family came to our support. You poured upon me and my family your love, encouragement, food, flowers, memorials, visitations and offers of help. What a wonderful testimony from our community. Words cannot even begin to express our love and gratitude to all of you. I cannot begin to name names for fear of excluding one of you. Ron would have been so proud of you all and I’m sure he is.

Thank you and God bless.

Vivian Stubblefield

Hollister

Deceit is Bush’s legacy

The men who led us into the Iraq War had the opportunity to serve our nation on the battlefield in our armed forces. They chose deferments and National Guard assignments. They and their supporters now have the temerity to label men who did serve as soft on terrorism and unpatriotic.

The issue is: “Bring our brave troops home now, safe and alive or try to figure out what to do in 2009.”

Pray with me that American voters will deliver this deceitful bunch a message they can understand.

Frank Crosby

Morgan Hill

Ruben penned ‘smelly’ column

Ruben Navarette’s article last week smells. Ruben deftly avoids calling Lou Dobbs a racist or xenophobe, but not some people who listen to Dobbs. The definition of a racist is someone who thinks a particular race is biologically superior to another. Since when does biological superiority have anything to do with illegal immigration? The issue is that society is changing based on breaking the law, not pandering or calling people names.

Ruben states “they change the language and cultural landscape of the country once they arrive.” One societal change is occurring in Oregon where fire crew supervisors in Oregon have been forced to take lower positions because they don’t speak Spanish. Yet the employees cannot speak English, and thus are not be able to communicate with English-speaking taxpayers they are trying to save! It has reached a tipping point in societal change when a U.S. citizen cannot even hold a government job because they can’t communicate with coworkers who, as U.S. citizens, are supposed to have a working knowledge of the English language. Whatever happened to the melting pot, where the immigrant changes, once they arrive?

Ruben clearly panders when he states “the words all end in ‘-ism.'” Name calling is Ruben’s favorite bullying tactic. So is disrepecting the rule of law to force societal change on those who abide by the law.

Mark C. Dickson

Hollister

Close the loophole

Demonstrating that there is perhaps no proposal too outrageous for those trying to break down our borders and our traditional social order, I noticed H.R. 3006, which would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to sponsor their “permanent partners” for residence in the United States. The act would change current immigration law language by inserting the phrase “or permanent partner” after “spouse” each place where that term appears. H.R. 3006 has flown quietly under the radar, gathering 94 cosponsors in the House and 10 in the Senate. I found out about this from the June 2006 John Birch Society Bulletin, at www.jbs.org.

I suggest everyone contact their representative and senators now to oppose this stealth pathway to legal residency for non-married “partners.” It is too much to let some of our congressmen give citizenship to alien homosexual partners.

Matthew R. Davis

Henderson, Nev.

Bush-Cheney subvert freedoms

In counter response to Marvin Jones and Martin Richman’s “history lessons” last week regarding Mary Zanger’s thoughts on freedom of speech, I believe it’s these two gentlemen who definitely need to attend Gavilan College’s U.S. History 101 class. I’m sure they’d be surprised to discover that the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights was framed and approved without bloodshed.

Definitely there was heated debate in the document’s writing and ratification. But under the brilliant leadership of George Washington who served as chairman over some extraordinarily gifted men, America suffered no violent war in 1787 during the creation of the supreme law of our land.

Thank God the Founding Fathers had the wisdom to see that the Articles of Confederation were too weak to work. They wisely chose not to “stay the course,” but began fresh by giving our nation a new government.

On a side note, a major debate among the delegates in the Philadelphia State House was over how federal powers might be divided. Their solution was an innovative system of checks and balances across three branches – executive, legislative and judicial. Unfortunately, the Bush-Cheney administration is now keen on subverting that prudent system we inherited.

On this Independence Day weekend, I hope “We the People” will remember how vital it is to safeguard the principles of this amazing document that has given us our freedoms.

Martin Cheek

Morgan Hill