Paper’s use of ‘Teabagger’
in headline termed vulgar

I normally just chuckle when I read a letter to your editor that says something like, “The original tea party protested transnational corporations that destroyed local colonial businesses.”

Especially when such an assertion does not appear in any of the history books, but rather from an April 15, 2009 article from left-winger Thom Hartman.

 But when your paper then places such nonsense above the fold on page 1 of your March, 2010 issue, the chuckling stops. Not only do you appear to agree with the writer, but you then go a step further and plaster the vulgarity, “teabagger” on pages 1 and 10.

Obviously, under the Constitution, you have the freedom to print whatever you want, but your readers need to know two things: 1) the original tea party in 1773 was a protest against taxation of the colonies without representation in the British parliament. To say it was a protest against large business is ludicrous; 2) the current uprising of Americans organizing under the name of the tea party support the Constitution as a document that not only established our government structure, but went out of its way to LIMIT the size and scope of the federal government.

Lastly, when was the last time Walmart imposed a tax upon a U.S. citizen? Walmart saved low income U.S. citizens $30 billion in 2008 — without the heavy hand of government redistributing wealth from one group of people to another.

I highly doubt our Founders would have thrown tea into the Boston Harbor over something like that.

RICHARD J. MAITA
Attorney at Law
Asheville

Religious scholar ripped
for touting ‘Jesus the Jew’

James Tabor tries to define “What Kind of Jew was Jesus” (story in March’s Daily Planet) without  giving any respect for the fact that NO Educated JEW anywhere in the world would consider Jesus as anything other than a FAKE.

Yahoshua is the name of the Jew who is the Messiah to the Jews and to whom Pilate gave the title “King of the Jews.” I never heard anyone tell me that he was the King of the Christians or Catholics who did not exist at the time. I wonder what they called Believers  in Yahoshua before Catholicism or Christianity came into being?
 Tabor likes to say that Jesus was an Enochian Jew, a provocateur and an Apocalyptic. Tabor is a professional who ignores many important facts.

“What Kind of a Jew was Yahoshua” – He was the perfect Jew, the  King of the Jews and the Jewish Messiah.
James Tabor deliberately insults the creator of the universe and the son he named himself.

Maybe it is time to take a look at the Jewish Messiah who also allowed the Gentiles to have salvation when he came to us in person and when we were in the desert.

SAUL BEN SHLOMO
Asheville-Arden

Bloggers called belligerent
over same-gender benefits

The local blogs are full of threats to sue Asheville for discrimination against heterosexuals, made by people who seem to be suffering from some kind of hysterical hallucination.

They think that because New Haven firefighters found a law banning discrimination against whites, that they can find some law in North Carolina banning discrimination against heterosexuals.

I have to laugh at this because although some blue states have such laws, North Carolina does not, and neither does Washington.

These belligerent bloggers are hallucinating up a law that in most cases they themselves prevented and are now tasting their own medicine courtesy of the “creative class,” another fiction describing communities that are prosperous due to low fertility rates.

ALAN DITMORE
Leicester

Council, clergy accused
of reverse discrimination

Several City Council members and  some 20 “faith leaders” are in a fever of moral and  religious  rectitude  to award  “domestic partner benefits for city employees who are in  committed, same-gender  relationships.”

Here is my question: Why would they not endorse with equal fervor the  awarding of such benefits to  “committed non-same gender relationships” — that is heterosexual relationships?

Why should heterosexual  partners who  live together without benefit of  clergy be  discriminated against?

DAVID SWEATT
Asheville

New book by Fletcher man
lauded for health lottery idea

Given all the rancor surrounding the health care reform debate, a local business owner, George Connolly of Fletcher came up with a comprehensive proposal that is by far and large an apolitical solution to help fund health insurance without raising taxes and is completely voluntary.

It’s a National Health Lottery coupled with additional components.

 In fact, Connolly just returned from Washington, D.C., where he distributed hundreds of copies of his recently published book, titled “National Health Lottery: A New Way to Fund Health Insurance” to congressmen and media outlets.

Western North Carolina’s U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D- Waynesville, told Connolly that he would read his National Health Lottery book, as did Senators Dennis Kucinich D-Ohio; and Scott Brown, R-Mass.

 Connolly believes that $2 billion a week — over $100 billion a year less payouts to winners and administrative fees — could be collected and used to help fund a pool of money that would help lower insurance rates.

 No matter which side of the legislative aisle you find yourself — and no matter what bill is passed — you may agree that George Connolly has a big idea that makes a lot of financial sense and is worth serious discussion, if nothing but for its practicality and uniqueness. Most importantly, it could be implemented within months, not years.

BYRON BELZAK
Skyland

Both parties termed slick
in drive to mislead citizens

So many of us, including myself, bought the idea that we are living in a free country.

All through my elementary and high school days, it was drummed into us. Land of the free. Home of the brave.
However, we are slaves.

Today, unless one is blind, we are seeing our freedoms stolen from us by the very people who promised to work to maintain them, our legislators (Democrats and Republicans).

Both parties work from a different premise. One is social programs and the environment, which leads us into the path of socialism or State-ism. That means that the government becomes our benefactor and acts on our behalf. However, we provide the means for them to do this to us, i.e. our labor and/or property, which is taxes.

This is fascism or tyranny by a dictator(s) taking all of our personal wealth and resources through taxes and making everyone equal but the dictator(s).

The other is the concept of capitalism, which tries to tell us that those with capital (money) provide the jobs for the rest of us and we all benefit. That is the so-called trickle-down economy. That is unless the capitalists become greedy and decide that they just don’t have enough wealth.

Then they begin to squeeze the worker by reducing the pay/salary and/or benefits. Or they use the power of their wealth to convince the legislators to open the borders and call it free trade. Then they can go to countries where there are no set salaries, no government-mandated laws for working conditions (bathrooms, heat, air, breaks or overtime compensation) and wa-la!

Their overhead costs have been cut 90 percent and their profits skyrocket! There is also no such thing as quality control and the products become poorer and poorer in quality and must be replaced more often (planned obsolescence). Capitalism without morality is also fascism. It is tyranny by the government that enslaves us into proverty without resources to work or produce. Then we have nothing but slavery. This is where we are today.

The only thing that will save us from this tyranny, besides divine intervention (II Chron. 7:14) is for “We the People” to revolt at the ballot box. No more good ol’ boys. No more party men. Our test must be the Constitution. Nothing else will do!

We have allowed jurists to create non-Constitutional laws and statutes by fiat without any protest. This year is the time to put a stop to this practice and return our country to the rule of law, which is our Constitution.

Stop voting for promises of “hope and change.” Vote for those who know and practice the rule of law.

Otherwise, enjoy the slavery you voted for. Stay a party man or woman.

BETSY SOLER
Green Mountain