The little girl said, “Send the police now.”
I have a question for America. In Uvalde, on which side of the classroom door were the adults to be found?
Things have gotten so bad, we need a second Memorial Day to remember the lives of schoolchildren sacrificed to unstable people having access to battlefield weaponry.
Christian America lives in a sweetocracy. We hate to get tough on anyone. Everyone is asked to be nice to everyone else, at the same time ignorant hoodlums are closing in on the sweetest of all to murder.
This is a part of a bigger pattern of mainstream Americans exploiting one another under the banner of freedom. Everywhere, the fangs of dishonest and greedy market behavior, and un-neighborly political aggression come out to discourage the lives of decent people.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
Beto’s
minions
Beto’s minions arranged to swap seats at Gov. Greg Abbott’s Uvalde news conference the day O’Rourke charged the stage with his barrage of political banter blaming the governor for the Uvalde shootings. Beto’s minions were on hand booing and shouting at the governor when he visited the makeshift memorial in Uvalde.
The seat swap was orchestrated by supporters of O’Rourke who gained access to the event for him as he was not invited to attend the presser. Had a regular Joe like myself pulled that stunt I would have been tossed out on my rear, but Beto was handled with kid gloves and escorted out of the building but not before having his say, and then being called “A sick SOB” by the mayor of Uvalde.
What happened to the Democratic creed of “When they go low, we go high”? Is this how a down-and-out politician like O’Rourke, who has lost presidential and Senate bids, moves forward to make himself relevant as a gubernatorial candidate?
I don’t see Republican candidates or party members disrupting Democratic events or harassing Democratic office holders at restaurants, like the guy who went after
Ted Cruz while trying to eat. No, ladies and gentlemen, these are sad acts of desperation by the Democratic Party that also lives by the creed, “Every crisis is an opportunity in disguise,” and that is a very sad statement that the tragedy in Uvalde is being politicized.
A person known to me who was at the Uvalde site conveyed that the people yelling were not local townspeople; they were outsiders, and the seat swap was discussed on Fox News about how Beto was able to get into the event.
There is at time and place for Beto to speak, a forum or debate but not the day after a mass casualty event where children and teachers lost their lives. If this is how Beto runs his shop, lacking respect for those lost and lacking decorum by making accusations that are polarizing, then he is not qualified to hold any office in my opinion.
Jake Longoria
Mission
Vote against
gun defenders
Would you give up the right to possess unlimited assault weapons, super-sized magazines and ammunition, if it would save the life of one innocent child?
Would you agree that no individual citizen needs an arsenal of assault weapons that are used in this country for the murder of schoolchildren and other innocent people?
There are political office holders and candidates who want everyone to have unlimited access to assault weaponry, without regard to age or mental competence. They believe that a person’s right to own assault weapons supersedes the right of all other people to live free of the fear of being gunned down in public places.
The next time you vote, will you be willing to vote against any such office holder or candidate, regardless of their political affiliation?
I hope, with every fiber of my being, that you will.
Cory Raymond
McAllen
Church
damned
Rev. Barry Abraham Zavah supports abortion and is against the repeal of Roe v. Wade (May 27).
I was wondering what kind of “church” or “religion” would support abortion and allow this reverend to publicly support it. A quick internet search reveals that Rev. Barry’s religion is the Unitarian Universalists Association, which describes itself as one of the most liberal religions, embracing atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, Christians and members of all other faiths. Although the Unitarians do not have an established creed and avoid doctrinal requirements, they borrow beliefs from many faiths. This church/religion encourages its members to search for truth in their own way and at their own pace.
For the Unitarians, belief in the Bible is not required. The church describes Jesus Christ “an outstanding human being” but divine only in the sense that all people possess a “divine spark.”
With all these not-obligatory beliefs, The Unitarian Universalists sound more like a hippie commune from the ’60s and ’70s than an actual “church” where people show up to “turn on, tune in, drop out” while pondering “the meaning of inner life.”
No wonder Rev. Barry is all in for abortion. I wonder what the qualifications are to be a reverend at this church.
Joel Ramirez
Edinburg
