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Letters to the Editor: Oct. 15-31, 2021
Saturday, 16 October 2021 11:56

Eric Trump is a putz; burn in Hell, you Trump chumps!

 â€œAnd bad things should happen to him.”
— Failed wannabe Fuhrer Donald Trump making a thinly veiled, mafiaesque death 
threat against U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley 
(from a Sept. 21, 2021 interview with the ridiculous AM radio reject Glenn Beck)


Let me make this clear for right-wing Republican readers.

Clear enough so that even the psychotically selfish simpletons of the treasonous Trump Crime Family can comprehend. 

(I’m talking to you, Eric Trump. Stop eating paste, Eric. Specifically, stop eating horse paste, you pasty putz!)

Beware. If anything “bad” should happen to General Milley, as deranged Donald Trump suggests should happen, expect complete payback to occur quickly. 

In fact, should anything “bad” happen to General Mark Milley, Colin Powell’s doctrine of overwhelming force will come down on Moron-a-Lago like a ton of TNT!  Believe me.

The American military protects its own; it does not defend racist Russian puppets, nor does it support generations of anti-American, greedy grifters like the Trump traitors.  

America prevails, and Russia fails. 

Burn in Hell, Trump chumps! You deserve it.

JAKE PICKERING
Arcata, Calif.

 

Cawthorn: RINO? Accused of backing red flag law bill

Madison Cawthorn voted for a bill that included a red flag law.

Rather than stand up against this bill and prove to his deranged base that he would never vote for taking guns away he has put himself in a very compromising position.  

We all know that he would rather have a buy one-get one gun special for as many unstable people as possible.

I am toughly enjoying the fact that he is flailing like a fish out of water and playing defense on a bill the he voted for.

The momentum of labeling him as a RINO is picking up speed within his base.  This is a massive opportunity for you to paint Madison Cawthorn as a RINO to his base and still keep your integrity, pursuit of the truth and dignity.

This is a perfect storm for you to help rid North Carolina of this election fraud believing, uneducated, sexual predatory embarrassment of a person from our state!  

I hope that you will do all that you can to take advantage of this opportunity.

I am certain that he will give all of us more opportunities in the future, but to not take advantage today may be a crucial mistake that we all regret.

MARTIN M. SOHOVICH
Waynesville

EDITOR’S NOTE: U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-Hendersonville, emailed the Daily Planet an “update” on Oct. 1, headlined, “Red Flag Laws have NO PLACE in our FREE SOCIETY,” as follows:

“I recently signed on to a letter with Congresswoman Stephanie Bice, Congressman Richard Hudson, and over 150 other House members to the House and Senate Armed Services Committee telling them to remove red flag provisions from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

“These red flag law provisions are dangerous and only serve to curb patriots’ 2nd Amendment rights.

“As I mentioned last week, I will not vote for red flag laws and will always fight to protect each and every American’s rights granted to them by our Founding Fathers.

“Last week I voted to send the NDAA to the Senate so they can strip out red flag law language. The House must vote on the NDAA again before the bill is sent to the White House. If the Democrats’ radical red flag language is still in the bill, I will vote NO.”




A way out for anti-vaxxers/pro-lifers

So much science is being overlooked. 

A very important Israeli medical report proves if you have already had COVID, your immunity is many times higher than the two-shot cocktail. 

Next, Remdesivir promoted by Fauci causes kidney failure. He quoted using it in Africa during Ebola, but left out it was discontinued because of the widespread deaths. There is no recorded history of any virus causing kidney failure.

If you feel safe with your shot, why are you worried about the person in the grocery line who didn’t take the jab? But they said it would protect you. 

Now, if you are anti-vax and pro-life, you have a way out. All vaccines were developed and tested using aborted fetal cells.

Fill out one of the many forms on the internet, get it signed by your pastor and your employer must allow it or they can be sued for infringement on your religious rights. 

Even North Carolina state employees have been exempted. 

There is a way out.

PETE BLACKSHAW
Asheville

Trump enablers accused ofliving the Big Lie conspiracy

To all Trump enablers who seem to know better than scientists and medical experts: OK, so don’t wear masks and don’t get vaccinated. 

Your chances of getting COVID-19 have vastly improved and likewise infecting people you come in contact with.

So now you’re exercising your “rights” as you carry them to your graves! 

Wake up and realize you’ve been conned by a master con-man, namely former president Donald J. Trump, who has you living his Big Lie conspiracy the world over. 

Think “facts over fiction!”

HERB STARK
Mooresville

 


Concern voiced about Dems being call ‘socalists’

 I would like to know what percentage of national Democrats have ever actually read Paul Krugman’s article in The New York Times, which is headlined “Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist.” 

It can be found online.

Of those who have, why do some of them still call themselves “Democratic Socialists” when Krugman does an excellent job of showing that they are actually “Social Democrats” — and not truly “socialists” at all?

How do they deal with the fact that he won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008?

Isn’t it fair and reasonable  to suggest that someone who won that award knows what a true socialist is and is not?

I think it’s very reasonable for him to be believed and to be seen as credible.I would like to ask this of all Democrats, but I would not want anyone to be offended or to believe that I am questioning their knowledge or intelligence.

The problem here is that I believe that we are probably going to lose the 2022 mid-term elections largely because of this issue and being called names like “Socialists” and “Marxists” by Republicans because those terms do scare and frighten many Americans and lose a lot of votes for Democrats.

Many Americans erroneously believe that the Democrats want to abolish capitalism, and it scares them.

Why can’t we simply say that what we want is “A MORE HUMANE, JUST AND CARING CAPITALISM”?

That won’t lose us many votes.

STEWART B. EPSTEIN
Rochester, N.Y.


Mumpower column praised as ‘spot-on’ 


I so appreciate Dr. Carl Mumpower’s column in the Sept. 15-30 issue (of the Daily Planet)! 

Spot-on analysis, especially on the COVID 19 issue. 

Please continue to voice the truth!!

PAULA HOLLIFIELD
Mars Hill 


Candid Conservative termed amazing, witty

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter to Dr. Carl Mumpower —  regarding a column he recently wrote that appeared in the Daily Planet — is reprinted here with the permission of its author.
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Dr. Mumpower,
Good evening. I just completed reading the Candid Conservative commentary titled, “Feel like Alice in Wonderland?” and wanted to share with you how much I enjoyed the article. 

You do such an amazing job with your wit, knowledge and insight.

I pray that more citizens pay attention to your writings, including our youth and our elected officials.

Keep up the great work!

ERIC CLONCH
Mills River



Reader backs JoJo Siwa over Rosa Parks on $20 bill

While I wholeheartedly and unconditionally support black Americans in their fight for freedom and justice and equality and equity, I don’t support putting the 1960s’ civil rights icon Rosa Parks on the twenty-dollar bill.

There’s someone so much better!

Who?

YouTuber, pop star, American dancer and general influencer — 18-year-old JoJo Siwa, that’s who!!!

JoJo Siwa’s fan base is mostly little girls 8 and younger.And what advice does JoJo Siwa give her child fans?

“Using your platform, and your personal power, and whatever else you love, to make others feel good about themselves is the most you can do with your life.”
 â€” JoJo Siwa

Why should this advice to children qualify JoJo Siwa to be on the twenty-dollar bill instead of Rosa Parks???

Because people who have had a near-death experience and lived to tell about it mostly come back with the message that, in heaven’s eyes, there  is only one way to live your life.

And that one way it to use your platform and you personal power — and whatever else you love — to make others feel good about themselves!!

(This is the same advice which JoJo Sima gives her little fans!!!)

JoJo is, in effect, telling her child fans to live their lives the one way that heaven wants them to.

And if children who are JoJo fans grow up to live this one way, they will be living their lives exactly the way heaven wants them to.

So this advice of JoJo Siwa to children is the best advice ever!!!

And it is the best and most important advice children will ever have!!!

And it might pay dividends after children die because it may earn their way to Heaven!

So I think JoJo Siwa deserves to be on the twenty-dollar bill more than Rosa Parks — or anyone else!

RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville


EDITOR’S NOTE: Pope added as a postscript to the letter above the following: 

“Thank you for supporting free speech and freedom of expression and for considering the letters’ column to be a marketplace for ideas.”


The â€˜Great Awakening’ follows sense that ... something is terribly wrong


Our overseers (I call them the “masters of the universe”) have made a grave mistake. 

For years, they have operated under the radar screen, pretty much taking advantage of the fact that most of us think we are free. 

With open elections and other clever devices of social engineering, they were able to convey a sense of relative freedom. 

It was like a “Truman Show” in which we all became unwitting actors. Now the show’s producers have overreached. They almost had us sold on the illusion of freedom. 

Now as the specter of totalitarianism creeps across the globe, we are experiencing a great awakening. The sense that something is terribly wrong has been gradually building over the years and now we have reached a tipping point. 

People around the world are hungering for something more. They no longer want to be part of a show. 

The first thing we must realize is that “freedom” is not something that is handed down to us by men in elegant wigs writing with fancy quill pens. 

That is parchment paper freedom and it is merely an illusion created to secure a civil society where people accept relative freedom in lieu of the real deal. 

It has become a fatal vision as our remaining relative freedoms are now being taken away from us in broad daylight. 

So what is real freedom?

I am not sure that I fully understand it. but I believe that true “freedom” is a place of peace beyond the algorithms of the mind and the neuroses of modern “selfie” society. 

“Farewell the wasteland
Of others fondest expectations,
Fly into the night,
Blaze your own fiery trail
Through thy broken heart”

At the end of this fiery trail is the true promised land. An authentic dimension of peace and freedom. 

Viktor Frankl, who gained notoriety as a prominent Austrian psychiatrist of the last century, was held prisoner by the Nazis first at Theresienstadt concentration camp — and then at Auschwitz. 

Frankl had this to say about freedom:

 â€œDostoevski said once, “There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.” These words frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. It can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away — that makes life meaningful and purposeful.”


This is the freedom that “makes life meaningful and purposeful.” What a profound way of looking at it. No one can say if this is the ultimate sense of freedom that might exist beyond our mortal form, but it gives us the freedom of shaping and creating our being even in the face of terrible adversity. 

Surely this is a valuable lesson for the dark times in which we live. 

Let each of us become a beacon light that illuminates the escape to true human freedom. 

The great transcendentalist of the 19th century, Henry David Thoreau, wrote in “Walden:”

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”

 

Regarding Thoreau’s idea “... to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,” this is the ultimate power we have as human beings and the only real power worthy of exercising.

With this we can elevate our lives through “conscious endeavor.” With this “power,” we can collectively create a better world. 

I am struggling on the road to freedom, but have not yet arrived. 

The first step is we need to stop being afraid of our own shadow. 

We need to remove the masks and engage the world without fear or reservation. 

Don’t let others define your world for you!

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said  “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”

Let’s roll!

DAVE EVANS
Arden



 



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