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PAGE 8A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. MARCH 25. 2021
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
Omar Sharifs career re
ally took off after taking the
title role in the 1965 epic
Doctor Zhivago. The film
follows he and his wife
(trivia: His wife, played by
Geraldine Chaplin was Char
lie Chaplin's daughter) and
Lara, his mistress. This is a
classic romantic movie that
reveals the common strag
gles of life in a vivid engross
ing way.
What makes this film
stand out even more is the
back drop of the Bolshevik
Revolution. It paints a grim
picture of what life is like
under a communist regime
and the disruption it has on
every day life.
I hope young people will
take a look at this classic to
gain insight into what com
munism is.
It is readily apparent
young people won't hear
much negative comments
about socialism and its big
brother communism with
teachers that so steeped in
liberal - I mean leftist -
dogma that they can not tol
erate a slightly different or al
ternate view. This does not
bode well for free speech in
the years to come.
Maybe people will enjoy
this engrossing highly emo
tional film. A person that can
watch this that does not con
clude communism is a bad
thing has a real problem.
Kudos to Mr. John
Carver's letter published last
week.
Hugh Pendley
To the Editor:
Thank you Joe Biden.
Thank you for shutting
down the Keystone pipeline.
So far in less than two
months you have managed to
increase the price of gas by
about a dollar a gallon. What
kind of price increases can
we expect to pay by the end
of your four years? Thank
you for all the thousands of
jobs lost. Thank you for
bringing tens of thousands of
illegal immigrants to take
what jobs we have. With over
10 million U.S. citizens un
employed, and hundreds of
thousands of homeless peo
ple living on the streets, you
believe the best thing to do is
keep bringing in illegals and
put them on our welfare sys
tem. This creates hardships
on our schools, adds to our
unemployment system, and
destroys our economy. I saw
last week that approximately
10% of all the illegals com
ing into this country tested
positive for the Covid 19
virus. And thank you for at
tempting to take away our
Second Amendment constitu
tional right to keep and bear
arms. This act alone will lead
to innocent law abiding citi
zens being killed (murdered)
when they refuse to relin
quish their legally bought
firearms. These guns were
purchased for hunting and for
the personal protection of
their homes, their families,
and themselves and most of
all from you, the federal gov
ernment. I will never relin
quish any of my firearms to
anyone or any government
and leave myself or my fam
ily defenseless against a
home invasion or assault.
And finally, I want to send
out a special thank you to
everyone that voted for this
imbecile. Before the election
you all saw how mentally de
ficient he was and yet you
still voted for him. Exactly
what were you thinking? I
hope our country can survive
these next four years of
Obama/Biden in the White
House.
Jim Harvey
To the Editor:
Have we gone from the
"Greatest Generation" to the
"Greedy Generation" in one
lifetime? It appears that the
lunatics are officially in
charge of the asylum (aka the
US Congress). They passed
HR1 which will put every
American further in debt to
the tune of $5,750 each.
Some will get back $1,400.
People who had to shut
down businesses or lay peo
ple off need help. I don't, if it
means burdening our grand-
kids with debt they will never
be able to pay off. Not one
Republican voted for this.
Who gets the 92% of this
supposedly "Covid Relief
that the taxpayers don't get
back? "Blue" states for one.
Corrupt, mismanaged cities
like New York, LA, Chicago,
San Francisco, Portland and
Seattle get billions paid for
by you. The poor "tech gi
ants" like Zuckerberg will get
a new rail system for Silicon
Valley costing billions more.
Bill Gates will get billions
and we'll send more money
to foreign governments/ the
list goes on and on.
Venezuela just issued the
"one million Bolivar" bill. It's
worth 50 cents. Of course
there's not a lot to buy in this
"Socialist Utopia" including
food. Did the people vote for
this? Of course not, they're
not stupid. But since the rul
ing Socialists use Dominion
voting machines they never
lose. They control the polling
so it all looks legit. Sound fa
miliar?
Finally, this bill will legal
ize voting fraud. Also, econ
omists have warned of hyper
inflation. I fear Americans
will wake up one day and re
alize there really is "no such
thing as a free lunch."
Dave Ray
To the Editor:
Atlanta legislators are try
ing to take over our elections
here in Pickens County.
Politicians in the legisla
ture are upset because county
Boards of Elections refused
to reject valid votes during
The Pickens Community
Service Club (PCSC)
announces end of annual
Vidalia Sweet Onion Sale
This organization has depended
heavily on funding from its annual sale
to support its stated mission of “Fami
lies Helping Families.”
However, the ongoing effects of the
health pandemic makes it unwise to
continue this effort.
To allow our loyal customers to seek
other sources of those onions, the
organization is announcing now that it
will not be selling onions this year.
PCSC wants to offer “Thanks” to:
• All who have bought through the
years;
• The Pickens County Public School
System; and
• The Pickens Sheriff’s Office for pro
viding storage space for the onions;
• All club members for selling and
working at the event; and
• Bland Farms for continuing to work
with charitable/ non-profit organiza
tions.
Best wishes, good health, and
“Find some good onions” to all!
the 2020 election. There was
no systematic voter fraud in
the 2020 election. Governor
Kemp agrees, Secretary of
State Raffensberger agrees,
and so do the majority of
Americans. Yet partisan leg
islators are trying to steal
county power and authority
and change the rules of GA
elections—rales that they
wrote—because they failed to
convince enough voters on
November 3 and again on
January 5, and worse, force
counties to cover the costs of
these takeovers.
Politicians in the state
capitol have already intro
duced over 50 anti-voting
bills in the legislature to roll
back access to the ballot by
banning giving water to vot
ers in long lines, repealing
automatic voter registration,
repealing no-excuse vote by
mail, banning drop boxes,
limiting early vote locations-
-and they aren’t stopping
there.
Now, they’re trying to
transfer power from local
election officials that we
chose and put it in the hands
of politicians under the Gold
Dome in the capitol. Their
latest bill would even let
politicians unilaterally sus
pend, fire and replace any
Pickens County election
workers and our entire Board
of Elections with a single in
dividual from Atlanta to de
cide how we ran and fund
our elections in Pickens
County.
I hope our Board of Com
missioners and voters are
paying attention to every
thing we have to lose during
the last few days of the leg
islative session cycle. Politi
cians have made it clear that
they won’t protect our free
dom to vote, and if they don’t
like the outcome, they will
change the rales of the game-
-and take away our local con
trol of our elections.
G. David Robinson
To the Editor:
The purpose of this letter
is to bring to light what is
happening in this country
today. We have people in au
thority who will sell out
Christians and other Ameri
cans (true citizens of the
USA) for a block of votes,
just like Judas sold Christ for
30 pieces of silver, betrayal is
betrayal.
Why not start with the
millions and millions of peo
ple in our inner-cities and
isolated rural areas that are
third, fourth, fifth generation
welfare? The Democrats of
this nation will lead you to
believe the welfare system
works, if it does why do mil
lions and millions live in
poverty inside our larger
cities and isolated rural
areas? Why do men congre
gate, drink, do drags, steal,
etc., instead of going to work,
why do women have illegiti
mate children, why do a man
and woman not get married,
because welfare rales create
this manner of living.
Why in a nation, under
God, does our government
pass laws that say a man can
marry a man and a woman
can marry a woman? This is
an abomination to the Word
of God, the God under which
this country was founded.
Why do we have a presi
dent that does not believe in
the sovereignty of the borders
of this great nation, asks for
illegals to enter into our
country, and offers them tens
of millions of dollars to place
them in hotels?
Why are our children
(ages 5 and up) given the
choice each day if they want
to be a boy or a girl?
Under Mosaic law God’s
children rebelled and wan
dered for 40 years, the Jewish
nation crucified Jesus Christ,
what is this nation under God
doing?
Pray and ask God if there
is not something you can do.
Stephen Lovell
To the Editor:
Progressives and Guns
and Votes
I see where Biden and
Harris want to prohibit cer
tain kinds of repeating
firearms and legislation is
moving to that end. Their
long range plan seems to be
to ultimately eliminate most
guns. They are turning up the
temperature and mean to boil
us like a live frog, a little at a
time, so we do not jump out
of their pot.
Today, they say no one
should have assault weapons.
Assault weapons are really
full auto-matic machine guns
that need to be fed by belt or
chain ammo or big capacity
magazines. You can have a
full auto weapon if you pay
the very high federal fees and
are inspected by the feds on a
regular basis. There are many
thousands of people in our
county that have these full
automatic weapons legally
and they do not seem to be
used for crimes.
We have had semi auto
loading guns for well over
120 years now. The progres
sives incorrectly call these
semi automatic guns assault
weapons. The current gun
fashion is that they are black
because wood is too expen
sive to use for gun stocks.
Not only have we had semi
auto guns for a very long
time, we have had pumps,
and levers, and bolt actions,
and revolvers. In time, they
will want those repeating
guns too.
At the same time that
bunch of progressive Democ
rats want fewer and fewer po
lice out on the streets. This
means violent, well gunned
criminals will ran free and
the rest of will not be able to
do a thing about it.
Many of you ignore this
threat to your liberty by say
ing that you will defend the
house against these federal
agents that come for your
guns. That is not how it will
be done.
Someday the feds will
identify those that have guns
and those that do not turn
them in will have all their fi
nancial accounts frozen. No
checks, no credit cards, no
phones , no internet, and no
bank account, no pay days,
no electricity, no gas. And by
then you and your family will
be ready to give up your
guns.
The only way to avoid
gun confiscation is to vote
and put rational people in
power so this threat to our
liberties is removed before it
can happen. If you do not
vote, like many of you did
not in the last Georgia Senate
election, you allowed others
to vote for this insanity. The
progressives took the Senate
because they voted. If you do
not wish to be disarmed, you
durn well better vote next
time.
Gary Pichon
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