Letters to the Editor 5/7

Communist takeover is happening all around us

As usual Guy Farmer writes about domestic terrorism without saying anything relevant about what is really going on. Janet Napolitano, our new head of Homeland Security, has determined that a large segment of the population represents potential terrorists.

That apparently includes tax protesters, veterans, gun owners, anti-government people who favor state or local control over federal control and people who are against the illegal alien invasion.

Also white supremacists who believe they should have the same rights as the favored minorities, racist neo-Nazi skin heads, people who read and listen to alternative media instead of controlled mainstream media that keeps everyone uninformed and misinformed, people opposed to special protective treatment of homosexuals and pedophiles with hate crime legislation.

If people like me and several others I know had columns instead of the Farmers and Paslovs, maybe your paper and others who tow the official line wouldn't be in such dire financial straits, and maybe the people would rise up against the tyranny being foisted on them.

We are in a communist takeover that is as clear as an elephant in the living room. We are being hypnotized with meaningless trivia and entertainment and kept completely ignorant of what is really happening with disinformation from the mainstream media.

ALAN C. EDWARDS

Carson City

Sad but true Catch-22

I must respond to Ms. Santomauro's tiresome and sanctimonious rant in the Letters to the Editor section where she was berating Obama and asking him why he supports "killing the unborn" and other ridiculous questions meant to incite and goad.

This is a very touchy subject and one that must be approached with sensitivity and common sense, attributes that appear to be lacking in her letter. True, anyone with a brain knows that abortion is murder but when you outlaw it, what happens? Women die from illegal abortions. God forbid, Ms. Santomauro, if your daughter had to go to some back alley chop shop because you and others of your mindset had abortion outlawed.

While I realize it is murder, as do so many other Democrats, we simply cannot illegalize it because women will die as so many did before Roe vs. Wade. It's a very sad but true Catch-22, and it is naive for you to expect our president to outlaw it or even be against it because when women lose control over their bodies, they become like cattle.

Please don't allow the ever-increasing fascists on the right to cloud your judgment and common sense. Instead of chiding the president, maybe you would be more productive supporting safe sex via condoms because we know "abstinence" is a joke. Or would you favor the return of chastity belts?

ROBIN CHRISTY

Carson City