Letters to the Editor
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Just some random thoughts.
I was a school librarian. Years ago I asked one of my student clerks if he was going to college.
His reply that he was, but it wouldn't be at one of those colleges that "teach that evolution thing." As the conversation progressed, I asked him which of the creation stories in Genesis was the correct one. He was surprised by my question. When I offered to show him from the King James Version (the real Bible) that there are two versions of the creation in Genesis, he wouldn't look. Not only does the Bible trump science, it often trumps itself.
At the same school, a citizens group protested that there were no Bibles in the library. When I showed them that there were several different versions of the Bible plus the Koran, they tried to get the Koran removed from the shelf.
In my years as a librarian, many controversial books were removed from the books via the "five fingered checkout." It's OK to break one of the Ten Commandments to defend them.
Years ago, Coretta King's statement to a Congressional committee that the assassination of her husband and the Kennedys was linked was trumpeted in the newspapers as fact. That the statement was made was fact, but the content was opinion.
We pass new restrictions on voting because "aliens are voting in our elections." Yet no one to my knowledge has advanced any studies that show this to be true, and if true, to what extent that it is so.
Terrorists are crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. Do we know this because we are catching them or that we or that we are not catching them? If we are catching them, why is it not general knowledge?
Why is it better for the children of illegal aliens to not have an education (thereby limiting their exposure to English) than to be educated? (the same question can be asked for denying aliens driver's licenses, bank accounts, etc.)
If we are to demand that, as public policy, all aliens learn English, why don't we create a system to do so?
Why aren't more questions asked?