Letters: Due diligence seeking truth

The deep state, Victoria Nuland, Vice President Joe Biden and our CIA were involved in the coup to remove the democratically elected pro-Russia President Yanukovych of Ukraine in 2014. Yanukovych avoided an assassination attempt on his life before he escaped to Russia.

But there is more to the story. I wasn’t aware that Sen. John McCain was also involved until I remembered seeing that in Oliver Stone’s 2016 documentary “Ukraine on Fire.” Nuland currently serves as undersecretary of state for political affairs.

The New York Times recently came clean and admitted that Hunter Biden’s laptop does exist. They denied its existence prior to the 2020 presidential election.

An interesting fact we have learned from the laptop was that Hunter solicited funding for contractors who could work at the many biolabs in Ukraine that America helped open. Russian President Vladimir Putin had already told us about the existence of biolabs in Ukraine that our own government denied.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a member of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum and supporter of the “Great Reset.” Yes, Zelenskyy believes in a one-world government where “you will own nothing and be happy.”

I believe the news media are biased today. They only tell us what they want us to hear and see, much of which is lies and half-truths. So why should we believe the news stories today concerning what is happening in Ukraine?

Like any country in the world, Ukraine is filled with good people and bad people. Your personal beliefs determine whom you think are the good guys and the bad guys.

I was and always will be an anti-communist. I deplore the harm Putin is causing the people of Ukraine today. But that doesn’t mean everything Putin tells us is a lie.

If you want the truth you have to do your own due diligence.

Darrell Williams Sr.

McAllen

School prayer

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Do those who ask school boards to mandate public prayers in the classrooms have the money to fight a major lawsuit against the public schools by the ACLU, Freedom from Religion Foundation and American Atheists? If not, don’t.

I along with the ACLU and FFRF took on the state of Alabama on religious issues. We never lost a case. Alabama taxpayers paid a lot to have the U.S. Constitution enforced. It is time for the taxpayers to stop paying for the hypocrisy of the GOP.

For your information, prayer was never banned in public schools and has always been allowed if it is not disrupting other students or classes. So what do you want? Do you want Jews forced to stand, bow their heads and close their eyes while a teacher prays to Mary at taxpayers’ expense?

Asimov’s Guide to the Bible states: “Jesus … decries giving alms openly, praying in public … Jesus points out that if it is human acclaim that is wanted, then … that is all the reward that is likely to come.”

Jesus believed that prayers are to be an intensely personal event between a person and God; no one else should be present. Prayer to him was a private matter.

Mata is from the Spanish and it means kill. Moros means Muslims. Matamoros actually means “killer of Muslims.” How Christian is that?

Hank Shiver

Mission