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- Written by: Bill Wink
To my friends and those who are not my friends:
We are currently in a world situation that many in positions of knowledge and power are describing as World War III.
That being the case, we as a country can no longer afford to have an apologizer and appeaser as our President and leader. We need a warrior.
We need a warrior who says what he means and who means what he says.
These last several years have left a path strewn with misrepresentations, deceitful actions and outright lies; even lies that cost Americans their lives (think Obamacare).
When our president says he has drawn a red line he must mean to cross it would cause grave consequences not just another line and further appeasement.
In these perilous times our military has been reduced in size and our country is being filled up with foreigners who owe no allegiance to our country and this because of the current administrations political ideology.
For over six years now we have had an administration that constantly flirts with socialism, who dissects the Constitution in a manner that most Americans find foreign and unimaginable, with a president who has traveled around the world apologizing for our ancestor’s behavior and currently has our strongest ally wondering if they still hold that position, now, that must come to an end. We can no longer afford the price tag.
I’m not here to tell you which person to vote for for president, I’m just telling you that when you mark that box next to the name of the person you have chosen that that person be a warrior, a person with intestinal fortitude, a person who can rouse a nation as one, not continue to divide us into segments who will surely lose this war.
Bill Wink lives in Hidden Valley Lake, Calif.
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- Written by: Truman Bernal
In response to Becky Curry's letter regarding the State of Jefferson ( Curry: Representation in the State of Jefferson, www.bit.ly/1BQIwMa ), I am not going to go into any dates or ruling, just logic!
When the few who live with and look after the rocks and trees lose a say to those who don't even see them because of the concrete, asphalt and high rises, who but the people who live with the rocks and trees can protect and save them and their way of life?
Truman Bernal lives in Kelseyville, Calif.
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- Written by: Tom Guthrie
I've been following the recent letters and postings on the state of Jefferson with a great deal of puzzlement.
Right now, Lake County is one of the poorest counties in the nation's richest state.
Granted, it may seem that we're not getting much help (roads, vector abatement, schools, food inspection, etc.) from California, but if we leave California to join Jefferson, how much help can we expect from what will be the nation's poorest state?
Perhaps we should secede from the union and collect foreign aid?
Tom Guthrie lives in Lakeport, Calif.
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- Written by: Becky Curry
In 1791, Tom Paine, wrote, in the “Rights of Man,” ‘The county of Yorkshire, which contains near a million souls, sends two county members; and so does the county of Rutland which contains not a hundredth part of that number. The town of Old Sarum, which contains not three houses, sends two members; and the town of Manchester, which contains upwards of sixty thousand souls, is not admitted to send any. Is there any principle in these things?’
In 1832, by act of British Parliament, The Representation of the People Act of 1832 was made law. One of the reforms of the Act, was to eliminate “rotten boroughs” and redistributed representation to the citizens.
Rotten boroughs were a product of an ossified system resistant to change, one where fathers passed on constituencies to their sons as if they were personal property.
These electoral districts had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain undue and unrepresentative influence within the House of Commons.
In 1964, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state legislative districts must be apportioned on the principle of “one man, one vote.”
In an 8-to-1 decision, the court upheld the challenge to the Alabama system, holding that Equal Protection Clause demanded “no less than substantially equal state legislative representation for all citizens ...”
Noting that the right to direct representation was “a bedrock of our political system,” the court held that both houses of bicameral state legislatures had to be apportioned on a population basis.
Chief Justice Warren wrote that “legislators represent people, not trees or acres” and “legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.”
So, here we are in Lake County in 2015, being asked by radical secessionists to rewind our democracy 200 years into the past.
The foundation of a republic is based on power residing in the people, and the government is ruled by elected leaders run according to law, rather than inherited or appointed from divine mandate.
The leaders of the secessionist movement are proposing a return to feudalism by establishing a new state whose government would look like the pre-Reform Act of 1832 United Kingdom.
Their proposal for the government of this new state elect two state senators from each county.
(source: http://www.soj51.net/resources.html ).
In this new “State of Jefferson,” Sierra County with 3,000 citizens, would get two senators and Placer County with close to 400,000 citizens would get two senators.
How is this in any way, fair and equal representation for the citizens who live in those counties?
One man, one vote and the right to direct representation is the foundation of our democracy.
So, to the secessionists, again, “Is there any principle to this thing?”
Becky Curry lives in Kelseyville, Calif.