On next vote, Bayh must side with us

As one of many Americans and a proud Hoosier that had to file bankruptcy due to medical bills, I am appalled that Senator Bayh would not want his fellow Hoosiers to be able to get healthy and stay healthy and/or be able to afford health care. If he votes the trigger, it would send the message that he does not care about his constituents but only the politics of his family’s careers and their future.

What about our future, Senator Bayh? Are we not worthy of a health care program that even you yourself have? Please think of our futures first this time.

Becki Lynch

Kokomo

‘The animating contest of freedom’

The Founders say it best:

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams

Jay Martin

Flora

Men can’t decide what’s best for us

The right or conservatives support individual rights. The left or liberals support community rights. Each seeks power. The right for the individual to control his own destiny. The left for the community to control the destiny of individuals.

Both seek wealth as the means to attain the end, material well-being.

The right holds that the individual seeking his own self-interest will result in the greatest good for the greatest number. If Christian, religious and non-Catholic, he generally believes the Bible will guide his way by prayerful private judgment.

The left believes that the individual freedom of the right, free enterprise and capitalism, has resulted in unjust social institutions, and if the community owned and controlled the institutions, a just society would arise through the judgment and will of the community ruled by elite leaders.

Both are concerned with making the world a good place, but both deny that God in the person of Christ established a church that is to be the authority on faith and morals for all men until he returns. The left also generally denies that man has a fallen nature due to an actual sin of Adam and Eve. This leads to the idea that man is perfectible and so a just social order can be achieved if the proper means are used.

Without individual consciences being guided to true morality through the authority of the church Christ established, there can be no equitable society. Since the state has no basis on which to claim moral authority, anarchy or total control will result. Both conservatism and liberalism suffer from the same error – that man can decide what is best for man without submission to Christ through his Church.

Walter Cameron

Kokomo

‘If you kill innocents, we will scold you!’

Somebody is acting stupidly. Very stupidly.

Our government is going to give the Guantanamo Guys a civilian trial in New York (for show, not for justice). Foreign, non-civilians are going to have a civilian trial. Stupid!

Military prisoners who allegedly were involved in an aggressive attack, an act of war against the U.S., will be tried by the wimpiest courts in the world. The defendants will be found not guilty and freed, after the U.S. tries them with political correctness, millions of taxpayer dollars and prime-time TV ratings.

This is the biggest get-out-of-jail-free card ever played. This is disgraceful, shameful and an insult to Americans.

Let this be a warning to the world: If you kill 2,828 of our innocent civilians, we will scold you! The most powerful and free nation on the globe has spoken.

Patrick E. Harvey

Peru