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Wait and see? With Putin, it’s best to respond rapidly
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visited Russian President Vladimir Putin (on March 5) in an effort to mediate an end to the Ukrainian invasion by Russia.
Meanwhile, an increase in attacks on populated areas by Russian forces means negotiating a peaceful conclusion to this senseless war has fallen on deaf ears in Moscow.
While I applaud Bennett’s efforts, it seems that Putin (acting true to his dictatorial ways) couldn’t care less about the cost in human lives and destruction.
We’ve seen what dictator Putin’s intentions are so waiting is a waste of time.
The free world must respond to dictator Putin’s evil agenda with whatever it takes to bring about a return to adhering to international law and that includes prosecuting war criminal Vladimir Putin.
HERB STARK
Mooresville
Time to pack squirrel rifle, coon dog to help Russians
Upon learning that American military vets and John Rambo-types have volunteered to take on the Russians in the Ukraine, I decided to travel Ukraine to neutralize these American adventurers!
I’m bringin’ my squirrel rifle Ol’ Betsy and my coon dog Ol’ Blue with me.
Is a squirrel rifle enough firepower?
Of course, it is!
My squirrel rifle Ol’ Betsy is perfect for a coon hunt and a squirrel hunt and a turkey shoot!
Maybe America will learn to mind it’s own business and to stay out of one-on-one fights!
Maybe America will learn that, in a one-on-one fight, it’s wrong to come in on the side of one of the fighters and to make it two against one!
Maybe America will learn that it’s wrong to convince the whole world to team up on one of th two fighters fightin’ one-on-one!
But this is more serious than a fight where the whole world is teaming up against one country.
This is a fight where the whole world is ganging up on Russia because the whole world represents the New World Order, and the New World Order doesn’t want Russia to restore the former Soviet Union because a restored Soviet Union would be big enough and powerful enough to balance and counterbalance the New World Order.
What’s so important about Russia becoming big enough and strong enough to be a counterweight to the New World Order, you ask?
Science magazine headlines scream out the warning — “The Brave New World has arrived!â€
That’s right! The Brave New World foreseen and prophesized by science fiction writers and futurists has arrived!!!
And the New World Order is ... the Brave New World.
And unless Russia restores the former Soviet Union, it will not prove powerful enough to prevent the Brave New World from creating a Brave New Future.
Conversely, if Russia is able to sucessfully restore its former Russian Empire, Russia may become big and strong enough to stymie the Brave New World and stymie the creation of the Brave New Future.
This is a high-stakes game and American adventurers in Ukraine cannot be allowed to tip the war in favor of the Brave New World and Brave New Future.
My squirrel rifle Ol’ Betsy and my coon dog Ol’ Blue are ready for a coon hunt and squirrel hunt and turkey shoot!
RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville
Issue of ending U.S. purchase of Russian oil? It is a moral decision
EDITOR’S NOTE: Roger Buckner preceded the following letter by noting, “I wrote this last week, but I think it still has relevance this week.†On March 8, the U.S. announced a ban on Russian oil imports, with President Joe Biden acknowledging that Americans could experience “costs,†including higher gas prices.
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I believe the U.S. should stop buying Russian oil and gas now.
I think it is immoral. Putin is using the money we spend for Russian oil to buy bombs that he is using to kill Ukrainian babies, women and civilians.
He is using that money to invade another sovereign country. Who will be next?
We are, in part, making his war possible. This totally unacceptable to a country that can be 100 percent energy-independent for the next 400 years.
Which is more important — people’s lives or the melting of an iceberg in Antarctica?
Net energy consumption is not reduced by buying Russian gas.
People are still (overall) going to use the same amount of energy. The “carbon footprint†is not going to be reduced. We are not “saving the planet†by buying Russian gas.
Do you think the Russians give a damn about saving the planet?
I am willing to ride my bicycle to save people. It is something we can do to support Ukraine.
It is something many can do to say: “F--- you, I choose not to be an accomplice!â€
ROGER BUCKNER
Asheville
Let’s follow our allies; raise social spending
As the 2022 mid-term election season begins, the American people need to be informed of and educated to the fact that almost all, if not all, of our traditional allies in western Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada have federal governments that do more and spend more (in proportion to their population sizes) than we do here in the USA on social programs to help and to improve the quality of life for all those in their middle and lower classes.
To paraphrase Al Pacino in the movie “And Justice For All: ... for us to be right about this, all of them have to be wrong. I don’t think so.
STEWART B. EPSTEIN
Rochester, N.Y.
P.S. — I am dedicating this letter to the editor with a great deal of admiration and respect to my “hero†— suffragette Alice Paul.
EDITOR’S NOTE; In the following letter to the editor, its author is referring to the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,†which was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a group of nearly 400 African-Americans with syphilis.
Tuskegee experiments show Northern hypocrisy
The U.S. Public Health Service (created by the U.S. government in 1798 for the benefit of Northern sailors) and later the CDC conducted experiments on black men who had syphilis.
They were promised free treatment where, in fact, they not only were not treated, they were actively prevented from getting treatment.
By 1947 penicillin was a standard treatment.
I find it infuriating that Dixie continues to be vilified for slavery, which is something that has been done around the world and continues on today, yet the U.S. government used blacks as guinea pigs in medical experiments, something that would never occur to us.
JOHN BROWN
Hendersonville
Russia’s invasion ofUkraine likened to ‘War of Northern Aggression’
I had not seen any of my babies in a week, but I knew that, sooner or later, they would come.
On this morning of March 10, 2022, eight of them would knock at my door and ask how I was feeling, and did I mind answering a question about Ukraine? They would first pray for me and the country.
“Mr. HK would you March with the Ukrainian flag?†they asked. “And do you believe that the war in Ukraine has a parallel to World War One?“
“No and no†would be my answer. I believe it has parallels to the War of Northern Aggression.
"Both (Adolf) Hitler and (Vladimir) Putin took their war modus operandi from the playbook of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, with his field orders ,informed (Ulysses S.) Grant, (William Tecumseh) Sherman, and (Philip H.) Sheridan to initiate a total warfare policy against the defenseless old men, women and children; take the theater of war to their front door, was his (Lincoln’s) command.
"The Unión armed forces began a campaign of burning property, looting, plunder, rape and murder, as the civilized world looked on in disbelief.
The British promised the South armaments for their ships that would help them defend against Northern blockades of the waterways.
And then (Great Britain) reneged after Europe faced an unprecedented drought and famine. With the invention of the Reaper, enabling the North to produce large amounts of badly needed wheat to sell to Europe; Europe needed food — and abandoned the South.
For 12 years after the war, the North with its military war governors, carpetbaggers, Southern scalawags, and unknowledgeable blacks, continued to plunder the state treasury.
Fitting to note, the North would be compensated for all its freed slaves; the South would not be.
And now, here in the 21st century, the South is being asked to give the plundered and stolen state treasures that sit in the United States, back to Europe, which turned its back on the South.
I have sympathy for the people who now face Lincoln-look-alike Putin — and his Grant, Sherman and Sheridan look-alikes as well.
However, if I were president of the United States, reparations to the Southern people would be my first order of business, and that would include complete restoration of all war memorials to the citizen-soldiers of the Honorable President Jefferson Davis and the Honorable General Robert E. Lee, who, like the Ukrainian citizens, stood to fight the Devil, who had superior forces stacked against them.
I shall address this issue in more detail in a speech to the Judah P. Benjamin Camp 2210 on March 19 in Temple Terrace, Fla., as well as the destruction of the legacy of the Southern woman, as her men stand idly by, wringing their hands as she is attacked daily for her herculean efforts to memorialize her fallen dead of an integrated arm forces.
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To those who have been so gracious with their generous and most-needed donations, I thank you from the bottom of my heart! And shall continue to try and make you proud. I truly don’t know what my health status is because my doctors have not told me after the heart catheterization surgery some two weeks ago. I continue to take medication and my little brother, Terry Lee, has me on a walking regime. God bless you!
H.K. EDGERTON
Asheville
Chairman of the Board of Advisors Emeritus of the Southern Legal Resource Center
Member, Save Southern Heritage
Kentucky Colonel
Member Order of the Confederate Legion Judah P. Benjamin Camp 2210 Sons of Confederate Veterans
Honorary Life Member, Bradford Rose Camp 1638 Sons of Confederate Veterans Honorary Associate Member, Abner Baker Chapter 14 United Daughters of the Confederacy
Honorary Life Member, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia Orders of the Confederate Rose
President, Southern Heritage 411
A note to Vladimir Putin’s Republican apologists: Mike Pence is THE man
“There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin.â€
— Mike Pence, the defeated former vice president and assassination target of the Donald Trump Death Cult on Jan. 6, 2021
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Pumpkin-headed former president and Putin puppet-for-life Donald Trump is a political dead man walking in 2024, just like in 2020.
Now excuse me if you will for my momentary urge to smash pumpkins with a wooden baseball bat, just like Eli Roth bashed in Nazi noggins as Staff Sergeant Donny Donowitz “The Bear Jew†in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II era cinematic masterpiece “Inglourious Basterds,†but traitor Trump and his non-stop neo-Nazi nonsense calls for a response.
No matter how late Mike Pence is to the democracy party, I suppose it’s better late than never that deranged Donald’s former lap dog Pence is showing some patriotism these days, as opposed to the pro-Putin propaganda pushed by the GOP during the four years of the failed, far right fascist Trump regime.
Just another reason why I (as an unapologetically partisan Democrat and enthusiastic participant in Operation Good Trouble) will be voting for Mike Pence for president in the 2024 California presidential primary.
JAKE PICKERING
Arcata, Calif.
Hendersonville-Henderson County leaders: stop arguing, check facts
Okay, (Hendersonville) City Council and (Henderson) county commissioners — put your arguing away and look at the facts.
According to both of you: (fact #1) we need water, and (fact #2) we need waste treatment.
In reality, both of you have created these problems, not the people living here. You both approve of more developments without looking at what it will cost taxpayers in the long run.
Both of you are greedy for more money, so you advertise for more development, industries, and more retirees.
Both of you need to put development on hold until you can catch up on current needs.
Yes, water and sewage are needed, but so are more law enforcement, firefighters, EMS personnel, medical personnel, and teachers. You need to get those numbers up to national averages at the least, before you even thinking of more development.
Every decision you both make should go through a thorough and in-depth return-on-investment analysis.
For the most part neither of you nor your various committees do this, which results in administrative malfeasance, and a lack of fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers.
Remember you are elected by the people to serve them as a whole and not special interest groups or agendas.
PHIL RASMUSSEN
U.S. Army-retired
Hendersonville
Government interference often triggers problems in world economy
So, one way to destroy the world economy is to create a virus that shuts down most of the world’s production of food, energy and production of products many people need, etc., to create a high inflation rate that makes the world economy worse.
In the USA, our government has taken many steps to make life worst for it citizens by shutting down pipelines and oil productions and the building of nuclear plants driving the cost of energy up for all. And then buying oil from the communists and others that hate us.
Therefore, helping the communists and others that hate us. Plus, making all kinds of stupid rules that people have lived without just fine for years.
Most of the world’s problems are created by stupid never-held-a-REAL-job government personnel and leaders so they can claim to fix problems that would not be unless they created them.
Just think of the laws, regulations and rules they make that only make things for you worse and that the world did just fine without before they came along.
FREMONT V. BROWN III
Asheville
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