Question for Trump voters with daughters
I have a question for Trump supporters.
Assuming you heard the “Access Hollywood” tape of a rich man-child discussing “grabbing women by their” genitals before the election, did you A) think, now that’s a manly man I will gladly support, or B) that’s not good, however, I will support him because I despise the alternative, or C) he’s my guy regardless of whatever he says or does, even if he were to grab my wife or my daughter and even if he were to call dead U.S. soldiers “suckers and losers”?
Now, for those of you who have young daughters, someday they will grow into beautiful young women, and they will ask you if you voted for this obviously perverse and pathetic individual.
Consider your response.
Calvin V. Henderson
Our free will choices have ripples
May we realize that we — as are all human beings — are prone to commit the seven deadly sins: envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, sloth, wrath.
Each of us is created by God and given the wonderful/horrible gift of free will. We use our free will to make choices constantly.
Our choices set into motion consequences — good or evil — that are out of our control.
The effects of our choices continue to ripple out without end.
Are the consequences we are setting into motion positive and loving or negative and hateful?
May we be thoughtful, deliberate and loving in the choices that we make.
(See Britannica for more information on the Seven Deadly Sins).
Mary Alice Wyatt
Does Tennessee need another foolish law?
So let me get this straight. A woman in Ooltewah is upset because a chain bookstore is selling raunchy magazines, which they’ve done for years. She wants Tennessee lawmakers to put a stop to it.
That’s just what Tennessee needs — another law to make them look stupid in the eyes of the rest of the country.
Charles Hyder
Dalton, Georgia
Justice Dept., FBI chasing wrong folks
While Biden’s Department of Justice and FBI chase after imaginary white supremacists, surveil Catholic parents and infiltrate churches looking for their political enemies, the real threat is showing itself across American campuses. Reportedly, American foundations have been funding these radical anti-American organizations. Has the FBI infiltrated any of these organizations like they have churches? If so, how did things get so out of hand so quickly?
We must have a change in Washington, D.C., starting at the top and trickling down through all federal departments, but especially those that have law enforcement and intelligence powers.
Rusty Lacy
Rossville, Ga.
Are we about to be a nation of fools?
Wake up, America!
Abraham Lincoln offered the wisdom that “a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.”
The legal profession has apparently accepted that advice because there are very few, if any, pro se defense cases in our courts.
So surely it must also be true that a president who avoids accountability for his actions by pardoning himself presides over a nation of fools.
Richard McGee
VW workers, here’s what UAW represents
Watching the news on television recently, I noticed that some of those at one university protesting Israel’s incursion into to Gaza were carrying UAW signs. I did a double take, wondering what the United Auto Workers were doing at this demonstration? Then I read an editorial by the Wall Street Journal, and it became abundantly clear.
As the editorial states, UAW President Shawn Fain “chose to dive into the debate over anti-Israel campus protests … and how the police should respond. Writing on X (formerly Twitter), he said his union opposes ‘the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice.’ That would be a fine statement in a vacuum. In the context of the protests, it’s a defense of mass trespassing and harassment of Jewish students at Columbia, UCLA and elsewhere.”
As the editorial further notes: “He said the UAW ‘has been calling for a ceasefire for six months,’ meaning the union wished to halt Israel’s war of self-defense not long after Hamas mutilated women and killed 1,200 Israelis in a surprise assault.”
I couldn’t agree more with the conclusion of Wall Street editorial that Mr Fain’s “views may come as a surprise to Volkswagen workers in Tennessee … . Auto workers should know the radical politics they’re being recruited to endorse.”
Howard Brown
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
Constitution clear on immunity law
A recent letter writer offered: “Does the President have total immunity from criminal prosecution? Whoosh. … no. No one is above the law.” The writer is correct that “no one is above the law,” but he needs to reread the Constitution.
The Constitution is clear: the “president, vice president, and civil officers” are granted a special justice system of impeachment by the House of Representatives and judgment by the Senate in Article II, Section 4. They are exempted in Article III, Section 2 from the normal criminal justice system. Only if the president, vice president and civil officers are impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate, does Article I, Section 3 provide for “removal from Office, and disqualification” to hold any Office of the United States: “but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.” In other words, prosecution in the normal criminal justice system may only proceed after conviction by the Senate.
President Trump’s indictments for acts while in office violate the Constitution because he was not convicted of any crime by the Senate. Only after conviction is he liable for and subject to the normal criminal justice system.
Robert Phillips
Signal Mountain
A political bent to cartooning award?
Congratulations to Clay Bennett for winning the National Headliner Award for editorial cartooning.
Bennett, along with the second- and third-place winners, cartoonists Mike Thompson of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Robert Arial of the Andrews McMeel Universal Syndicate, respectively, each entered seven samples of their work, totaling 21 cartoons.
Five of the featured cartoons were based on former President Trump. Among the remaining 16 cartoons, none dared opine about President Biden or his policies.
This begs the question: Did all three contestants purposely curate their entries to pander to the judges’ political opinions to win?
Kirk Mueller