COVID is taking over our Valley and our people seem to be co conspirators in that very few people are wearing masks while mingling with the crowds.
In the July 14 Monitor we find COVID is rampant here in the Valley and if the truth is known, The Monitor’s report is just the tip of the iceberg! Many people are infected without knowing the fact or if they have the bug, they treat it as a sinus infection and spread the bug around freely.
Maybe the world has reached the point that it can’t sustain the amount of pressure being generated by the appalling lack of regard for the environment. Maybe nature is using this scrooge on humans to reduce the population of the world and restore the balance that is required?
Another appalling fact is we were lied to by our governor when he reported that the policemen responding to the Uvalde shooting were heroes. The video just released show just how this was not true. He intimated that the police were only armed with pistols and the killer had AR-15s, outgunned was blatantly false.
I for one think the video should show and the audio should be complete with the children calling for help and screaming in terror, which they were. American people should be required to see and listen to those screams of terror. They should be required to vote in the next and following elections to elect people of moral and principled beliefs.
You might disagree with me on this, but you see worse every night on TV entertainment. But that is fake video and we take it with the idea that it is just entertainment.
Bill Williams
Palmview
Simple idea
on abortion
I tend to overthink issues, and it hinders my ability to communicate with many people.
The abortion issue has been politicized, and used as a means of gaining or retaining public office. After all, the only purpose of a political party is to become elected.
The Republican Party also tries to enlist religious and ethical values to support its stand It seems to me there is something about separation of state and religion in the Constitution.
My answer to settle the abortion issue is elementary. If you are against abortion, don’t have one.
Ken Cantine
Pharr
Cowardice
and deceit
What lurks behind the face of cowardice and deceit? What inspires the self-denial and the repudiation of common sense and common knowledge?
Questions abound. Answers languish in incoherent and jumbled hyperbole of arrogance and contemptuousness, while America burns, and a dream dissolves into ashes, scattered by the wind over the rising flames of anarchy and madness.
The rise of cowardice and betrayal began with the prophetic descent down an escalator in a New York tower, and ended in the degeneration and depreciation of America’s nobility and stability, by a man, and a movement, that obscured and confused their allegiance to a nation, with allegiance to power, supremacy and dominance.
The eloquence of the presidency was replaced by the audacity of incompetence, pomposity and narcissism. Centuries of carefully molded and sculpted pillars of democracy, carefully and systematically razed from their foundation, and burned on a pyre of lies, deceit and a fabricated reality of a conspiratorial deep state, where everyone and everything is presumed an enemy of the state, until they prove their cowardice, timidity and corruptibility, through the abandonment of courage, and the embracement of un-American ideals and ideas.
And so, the face of cowardice has replaced the face of liberty, justice and equality. And behind the face of cowardice, the master of deceit and betrayal. The man who would be king. The man who leaves no one standing before him, or behind him. He is unto himself, the center of all that is, that should be, and all that he alone, will let be.
And 74,222,958 Americans believed him and trusted him. And it is frightening to believe that we have descended so far down the elevator with this man, and now cannot find our way back up to a place of courage, stability, credibility and reliability. Our world has been turned upside down. Un-Americanism is the new normal. Cowardice is the new measure of a man. And feigning blindness and deafness, the new way to avoid seeing and hearing the fading spirit of our American Dream.
Al Garcia
San Juan
