Columnist, ëGang of Fourí
criticized for pushing ëtruthí

In ìSpiritual ideals needed for successful politicsî Bill Walz has significantly redefined spirituality to mean ìthe embrace of interconnectedness and self-transcendent love.î He also refers to ìtrue spirituality.î I suspect that Bill Walz has discovered TRUTH.

Now, when anyone discovers TRUTH, watch out. Right-wing fanatics know the TRUTH. The Taliban knows the TRUTH. Now Bill Walz knows the TRUTH. Progressives know the TRUTH.

Modern ìprogressivesî are the philosophical descendants of our own New England puritans. What is a puritan? This is a person who must purify others. If anyone resists the TRUTH, then he/she must be burned at the stake.

We live in a country founded upon the individual freedom to discover oneís own version of the truth and to live accordingly.†

Modern progressives might have an excellent point about interconnectedness and self-transcendent love. I commend their good will and encourage them to personally live the TRUTH that they know.

However, when by the force of government, they demand that I adhere to their philosophy, they become philosophical and/or spiritual tyrants. If they confiscate tax monies from me based upon their own spirituality, are they not establishing their own religion in government? Have they not even stolen from me?† Have they not become just another version of the right wing that they hate so much?

Whatever they have done, they have failed to understand freedom and thus have destroyed it. Democrats and Republicans are also guilty of the same breach of understanding.

The recent political maneuverings of the Asheville Gang of Four exemplify all this quite nicely.

Clarence Young
Weaverville

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Embracing of ëReal ID Actí
by state lamented by reader
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I am deeply saddened, but not very surprised, to discover that our elected North Carolina representatives have so warmly embraced the Federal ìReal ID Act.î

This act, along with other anti-American legislation like the ìUSA PATRIOT Act,î continues to perpetrate a grievous crime against We the People, disgracing every single American who has ever served and given his life in the name of freedom.

Such authoritarian laws undermine the very essence of individual liberty, upon which our country was based.† If our Founding Fathers were still alive, as if immortal, all these years of our nationís history, they would have surely advocated a massive revolution even by the time the 14th & 16th Amendments were enacted.

While our federal government wages a mock ìwar on terrorism,î it continues passing into law Nazi-like dictates which serve to strengthen the terrorist movement, rather than thwarting it.
By the looks of it, this ìReal ID Actî will be imposed upon Americans without hardly noticing a difference in their N.C. ìdriverís licenseî when they go to renew it later this year;† perhaps not as deceptive as the government contract most all Americans entered into at birth without choice ó the Social Security system ó but seemingly along the same lines.

Have our government ìleadersî merely been deceived and misguided to the point of no turning back on this drive to continue passing such anti-American legislation? Or are they deliberately attempting to destroy what remaining vestige of liberty our country has left?

Just say no to tyranny!

Bernard Carman
Asheville

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News story on rally termed
accurate; editorial blasted

I donít believe you actually listened to the (June 20 anti-illegal immigration) rally ó did you have a Soduko (sic) puzzle with you?

I was there and recorded the entire event on video for my blog. I heard no racism from the speakers.
Your original coverage was good, even better than the Asheville Waste of Times, and I even commented upon that belief.

Your opinion (editorial in the Daily Planet), however, sounds like something in the Asheville Waste of Timesí LTE Section.

Your opinions do help me prove the point that the left are accomplices in the Illegal Alien Invasion, so keep them coming!

BOBBY COGGINS
aka ìThunder Pigî
Asheville

P.S. ó The New Media is here, and can cover events in greater depth, and can allow one to ìbe thereî as it happened. Be careful when trying to spread lies about events when someone can pull up the whole thing and watch it for themselves....