Respect
This response is a rebuttal to the article “Knights extend Trojans misery” written by John Lindblum and printed April 11, 2015
I will be the first to admit the NCL1 league baseball record of the Lower Lake High School Trojans is little to be desired. It is true they have 44 straight league game losses and as a coach this is unbearable, but to single out high school 15,16, and 17 year old boys as the ” punching bag ” of the NCL1 baseball league is not only a low kick to the baseballs of my team members, it borders the foul line of literary child abuse.
Mr. Lindblum’s conscientious approach when writing about the efforts of the adolescent athletes of Lower Lake High School not only was purposefully rude it was demeaning to all my players.
Mr. Lindblum approached his article like a cigar smoking, short sleeved, humidity soaked shirted beat writer in the mid-west writing about a double A minor league baseball team where his only purpose was to write antagonistically about a home town team whose efforts on the diamond consistently fail, not about High School baseball.
All of my Trojan varsity baseball players keep their grades up so that they can participate on the team. They practice hard, play hard, and yes they lose hard; but through all of their adversities (many of these not on the baseball field), they always suit up for the next game; keep their heads high, so that some day they leave the field a winner. I am proud of every one of them and their struggling tenacious attitude to win.
Mr. Lindblum its time for you to take your by-line, be called out on strikes, walk back to the dirty dugout, sit on the dusty bench, pack your uniform, and hit the showers.
John McCarthy, Lower Lake High School baseball coach
Guilty of treason?
Treason is a very serious accusation and a very serious offence. But if true, it is devastating in its consequences.
The foundation of our Country is set on the bedrock principal of individual rights and the belief that those rights come from only one source and that source is God.
And with that in mind our Founders argued for and produced the Constitution of these United States along with the first ten amendments, aka, the “Bill of Rights”.
So what is treason?
Treason: the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance (Merriam-Webster)
The oath of office
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
The act of treason
To take the oath of office where a person swears to “support and defend the Constitution” whose foundation is set on the bedrock principal of individual rights and then to promote and advance a cause, under the cover of a Congressional Resolution, that neither protects nor defends the rights of the individual is at the least an act of deception and at worst an act of Treason.
And since these members of our Legislative Branch are at the very least well versed in the Constitution and the intention of the Founders and have yet placed as a burden upon the American people the principals of a foreign body, the United Nations, they are all guilty of treason.
So why treason?
Agenda 21, aka, sustainable development, is policy formed and promoted by members of the United Nations who are neither friends nor supporters of the United States of America. And to be so naive as to not recognize the underlying harm that Agenda 21 would bring to the freedom loving citizens of the United States by instituting the policies of Agenda 21 is not an acceptable or valid argument.
To institute Agenda 21 as National Policy serves only one purpose: To advance the cause of those who are not friends of the United State of America by promoting world governance and ending the sovereignty of the United States.
Bill Wink, Hidden Valley Lake
Freedom and government
I have just received a just-published book, “In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government,” by Charles Murray, in hopes it will help me find some pivotal new perspective relative to the relationship between our “too much freedom” style of government and the more controlled governments of China and the Asian countries.
There’s something dreamlike about thousands of persons governing themselves when you think about the extreme differences between any two human beings; and even with the caveat implied by decisions being made by majority vote instead of the patent impossibility of claiming to rule everybody by everybody’s rules, it is still obvious that very roughly half of the constituency is bound to be disappointed with the results of any election. The conclusion that this line of reasoning leads to is that most any form of government is almost as good as any other. “Almost” in view of the fact that a dictator, even if he has the help of any number of advisors, will let his real or imagined superfluity of power throw him off the permissible track of behavior, after which his country suffers and his life is generally forfeit — although, in America, even democratically elected presidency is dangerous work. You need to know who you’re working for.
Fortunately, the matters incumbent on a citizen related to governing the country or any subdivision thereof do not affect every part of that citizen’s life, nor does it interfere with every endeavor that might hold interest for that citizen. And any government that is ruled by two or three sources of equal power will be kept within the confines of sanity by the opposition factor that lies quiescent in every human being. Any such government is just as good as any other such.
To every species of organism, including humans, any form of control will amount to only a confining irritant against which some of the governed will always feel like resisting. The people, though perhaps not the same people, will be just as frustrated and constricted at one limit as another, especially if he or she has become habituated to too much freedom.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
