Published: October 09, 2009 02:51 pm      

Letters to the editor, Oct. 11, 2009

America Bless God

Dear editor,

I heard a song the other day that asked God to bless America again, and I once heard a prayer that asked God to come back and bless America with the respect that we used to have.

Well, my daddy, who is now with Jesus, once told me to be respected, I would first have to be respectable and then to respect others.

And to be blessed, I would have to first be a blessing and bless others.

So, the way I see it, for God to respect America again, we have to first be respectable, then we have to respect God. To be blessed again, we have to be a blessing and to bless God again.

It’s not “God Bless America” it’s “America Bless God Again.”

If America is to truly be the “land of the free and the home of the brave,” we must first respect and bless God again.

J. Norris Blanton,

Weatherford



Downright neighborly

Dear editor,

“You should move to Weatherford. People here are real neighborly,” said my sister, who convinced me to make Weatherford my retirement home following a career in federal service.

Her faith in the city’s neighborliness was recently validated when lifelong Weatherford resident E.D. Rains went to the trouble of gathering up the contents of my lost wallet — including credit cards, debit cards and driver’s license — which had been strewn along a Weatherford street and returned them to me at my home address.

His thoughtfulness saved me the inconvenience of replacing the lost items, rescued me from possible identify theft, and convinced me that moving to Weatherford was the right decision.

It was downright neighborly.

William Case,

Weatherford



Vote for us

Dear editor,

In regards to American State Banks Giving Back to Weatherford Campaign, I am requesting your vote for the Weatherford Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association.

I have been a member for over 10 years, and I am currently the treasurer, so I know first hand that we do not have any large donors, nor do we get money from tax dollars. We rely solely on fundraisers and dues, therefore winning this contest would be very helpful for our organization.

We are a support group for the Weatherford Police Department. We are the people behind McGruff. We do fingerprinting of children in the community. You will see us working traffic at accidents, parades and festivals, in addition to missing person searches. This is only a few of the services we do.

In addition, we make special purchases for the police department (items not in the budget or emergency items). So far this year we purchased four new taser guns for the police department. This all saves your tax dollars.

We are a 100 percent volunteer organization, so 100 percent of the funds go back into our community.

Please check us out at www.weatherfordcitizenpolice.org and please cast your votes for us at American State Bank and/or on line at www.asbonline.com/givingback.

Barbara Hummel,

Treasurer WCPAAA



No shots for my family

Dear editor,

I believe the “swine flu crisis” we find ourselves in is being caused by the same thing that caused our latest financial crisis. This time it is greed-motivated, irresponsible drug manufacturing companies instead of banks.

Here are six reasons why my family WILL NOT GET THE FLU VACCINE, adapted from the trusted Dr. Joseph Mercola:

1. The swine flu is simply another flu. It is not unusually deadly.

2. Adjuvants are added to vaccines to boost production of antibodies, but may trigger autoimmune reactions. Some adjuvants are mercury (thimerosal), aluminum and squalene. Why would you sign a consent form for your children to be injected with mercury, which is even more brain-toxic than lead?

3. This is the first year mock vaccines have been used to gain FDA approval. The vaccines that have been tested are not the same vaccines your children will be given.

4. Over-vaccination is a common practice now in America. American children are subjected to 29 vaccines by the age of 2. Meanwhile, veterinarians have backed off of repeat vaccination in dogs because of observed side effects.

5. Modern medicine has no explanation for autism, despite its continued rise in prevalence. Yet autism is not reported among Amish children who go unvaccinated.

6. Public health officials are irresponsible in their omission of any ways to strengthen immunity against the flu. There is strong evidence that vitamins C and D activate the immune system and the trace mineral selenium prevents the worst form of the disease.

Let’s march to our local Health Food Store and purchase the proven supplements to boost natural immunity. Call the local pharmacy that displays manipulative, fear-producing advertisements for flu vaccines and tell them, “I’m showing my family I love them by NOT getting the flu vaccines and I’ll spend my money elsewhere.”

Carrie Hurd,

Weatherford



On the slippery slope

Dear editor,

To President Obama:

As someone who has been behind your efforts to protect America from its enemies, I am writing to you about a great danger from within.

I am asking you from my heart to speak out for Americans like me who believe our nation cannot survive if we abandon God and moral principles in our public and private lives.

I am dismayed when our state courts assault the historic and irreplaceable role of marriage. My heart is grieved when a decent and honest judge cannot publicly state the moral foundations for all our laws and liberties by displaying the Ten Commandments. I am disturbed when elitist judges further attack the roots of freedom by trying to deny our children the right to pledge allegiance to our flag and our nation, stained by the sin of abortion on demand.

Like Thomas Jefferson, “I tremble for my country when I recall that God is a just God.” And we have, as President Lincoln declared over 140 years ago, “forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hands which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.”

Our nation needs to be reminded of these truths.

Your conscience alone must tell you that it’s time to speak the truth to the American people. If you do, I truly believe many Americans who are moving to the sidelines of political involvement will joyfully rally to you.

Please use the bully pulpit of the presidency to speak out, calling our nation to repentance for our great multitudes of sins against God. We are on the slippery slope of self destruction.

Chuck Katlic,

Weatherford