Freedom of speech violation in Morris Township
To the editor:
The most valued American freedom is freedom of speech. I am disenfranchised of this freedom by my neighbors in Morris Township because I cannot post any Democratic signs along my roadside or on my fence without them being stolen or torn down at night of the day I put them up. Republican signs, however, are never disturbed. I purchased by home on Old Mansfield Rd in 1980. I put up Democratic signs initially, but gave up. For more than 20yrs I have not put out Democratic signs. I have been silent; my voice and freedom of speech has been denied. This year I am Democratic Precinct Captain for Morris B and I will be a poll worker. I want to hang a Biden flag on my fence on the corner of Beckley and Old Mansfield Rd. Sept 1, I hung the flag on the inside of my fence and sandwiched another pieced of fence over it secured with zip ties. That night the sign was ripped out leaving only a blue corner piece with grommet.
White supremacists and many Trump supporters want their freedom of speech but are happy to prevent those they do not agree with. When Trump was first elected a neighbor across the street from me was outside with his long rifle and when I appeared in my car at the top of my driveway, he pointed his rifle at me. I also have Mormon neighbors that vote for Trump but they will have conversation and we look out for one another. The Township Trustees, all Republican in the past, argued that the stealing of political signs was not in their purview. So Morris Township neighbors, will you honor freedom of speech and let me hang my signs this election season?
Kathryn Edwards
Mount Vernon
Republicans Can't Put Trumpty-Dumpty Together Again
To the editor:
Welcome to the upside-down world of Trumpty Dumpty.
I’m a 72-year-old who has taken vaccines yearly, with no ill effects with even the swine flu vaccine. I was all in on the COVID-19 vaccine until Trump wrecked the independence of the FDA and the CDC recently.
So now while Trump is in office, I’m with his followers in not being willing to take the vaccine. He wants the vaccine approved as an October surprise, whether it’s safe or not.
This will soften his image of not managing the coronavirus well. It might give him some votes beyond his narrow base, who will probably hail his action on the vaccine despite the fact they hate vaccines as much as they hate masks.
And the safety of the vaccine may not matter much because Trump will have as much vaccine available in October as his 5 miles of new border wall.
Smoke and mirrors, fake actions, welcome to Alice in Wonderland.
In the meantime, after threatening my life by letting COVID-19 spread widely, he is scaring me away from a vaccine that could help me!
Trump has degraded the Republican Party so much that it is now a party that has lost all its values—respect for the military, a strong national defense, patriotism, the sanctity of marriage and family, moral decency, anti-communism, anti-fascism, love of freedom and democracy, a free press as the fourth branch of government, etc.
He has turned the 90 percent of Republicans who support him into communist dupes in bed with the American Nazi Party (whose official name is the National Socialist White People’s Party) and Putin who wants to restore the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
These dupes don’t respect any of the values the American flag stands for nor do they respect the U.S. Constitution, as they support a man who longs to be a totalitarian dictator like Putin, Kim Jong-un of North Korea, and every dictator worldwide on the left or right.
Being too dumb to be a Hitler or Putin, he serves as the buffoon Mussolini to Putin’s Hitler.
Don Comis
Howard, Ohio
Republicans threatening 'your families and mine'
To the editor:
Your families and mine are being threatened by a political party that doesn’t represent our interests. They roll back restrictions on pollution and allow the destruction of natural areas for short-term goals. My son and his family in California can’t go outside or open windows because of the smoke and ash. We in Knox Co. had a tornado warning, lightning, and drenching rains while America has faced longer droughts, harsher storms, rising waters, and devastating effects of wild weather on crops and homes.
Meanwhile, McConnell and the Republicans refuse to renew the $600 a week pay for those among us who’ve lost jobs. Democrats have had the Heroes Bill ready to go for ages, but now the Republicans are planning to ram through a skinny bill that cares about protecting corporations from liability more than keeping families afloat during this pandemic. Today we learned from Bob Woodward’s tape of his interview with our president that Trump was aware how dangerous the virus is but didn’t want people to panic, he says. Nor has he tried to protect them or marshal the forces necessary to limit its effects.
Householder and his gang of four engaged in racketeering to pass HB6, stiffing Ohioans with bills for the nuclear plants, some coal mines, and oil while cutting back on clean sources of power. Despite their indictment, they are welcomed back by the GOP in Ohio. How long do we let fossil fuel companies, munitions factories, the NRA, and an administration run by the rich for the rich trample on us? How long will our elected representatives have to continue submitting bills that address real problems to a Senate that just says, “No”?
Jill Grubb
Gambier
