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Opinion
Declare among the nations,
and publish, and set up a standard;
publish, and conceal not;
Jeremiah 50:2
On the Porch
Never Hillary
I do not like that Clinton there.
She lies and lies, with more to spare.
I do not like that Mr. Trump
He gropes on gals, on their rump.
I would not like them with a mouse.
I would not like them in White House.
But ballots say that we must choose.
So hold your nose and sing the blues.
- Dr. Davis
BY WILL DAVIS
publisher@myrncr.net
S o here we are Monroe County. Our long national
nightmare that is Campaign 2016 is finally to
end Tuesday. That will soon give way to the more
serious nightmare of a Clinton or Trump presi
dency. Neither is appetizing — but one, I think,
would be worse.
There are many reasons I cannot join my many friends
excited about Donald J. Trump. He strikes me as a wan
nabe playboy billionaire and con artist who says whatever
he thinks people want to hear to get what he wants. He
seems to possess all the strength and security of a short
fifth-grader with a bad attitude on the playground. He’s
always strutting around talking
about who will respect him and
whom he respects. It’s all my-worm-
is-bigger-than-your-worm, immature
stuff. Those who respect him are in
his club. Those who don’t are not.
And that, I think, explains why
he’s forever admiring dictators like
Putin — they’re strong men who
command respect. Nevermind that
they butcher their political foes.
As far as his policies, Trump very
rarely utters my favorite words in
American politics, the ones our founders loved: liberty and
freedom. And he’s been a Democrat most of his life.
Which leads us to Hillary. After describing Trump,
it’s stunning to consider that yes, she is worse. Hillary’s
corruption has been well documented this election year,
unless you only listen to her court eunuchs at ABC, CBS,
NBC and CNN.
If you go deeper, you learn that Hillary is, as the late
columnist Bill Safire noted 20 years ago, a congenital
liar. From the time as a 20-something that she was fired
from the Watergate committee for lying, right up to this
year when she lied consistently and repeatedly about her
emails, Hillary is the Arnold Palmer of liars. The King. The
Queen. Whatever.
The reason Hillary is worse than Trump is that she’s
a Democrat. No really. That sounds partisan and cheap,
but it’s true. Hillary and her party, the Democrats, and
the media (but I repeat myself), all want and encourage
and work for more government. The Obamacare takeover
of the health insurance industry has destroyed families
and lives — and the Democrat answer is to take over the
entire healthcare system with single-payer (socialist) med
icine. They always want more. And so Hillary’s campaign
ing for more taxes, more government, more control over the
American people.
Lying liars are bad, very bad—but when they want the
thing they control, the federal government, to swallow the
rest of the nation, they’re even worse.
Trump is less bad because he’s a Kepublican. Trump has
actually proposed some conservative, small government,
ideas — repealing Obamacare, cutting taxes, reducing reg
ulations and appointing constitutionalists to the Supreme
Court.. He may not believe these things. But if he wins,
he’ll have to govern. And knowing Trump, he’ll copy and
paste whatever boilerplate policy he put on his website and
send it. over to Congress. That’s actually a good thing.
But. the big reason to back Trump is that Democrat, cor
ruption has metastasized and consumed our entire federal
government. Obama has weaponized the IRS against
conservatives. Democrats have turned the DOJ into their
plaything, covering up Hillary’s blatant flaunting of federal
law. In the beginning of the campaign, I thought Trump’s
"rigged” rhetoric was embarrassing paranoia. After all,
this is the guy who thinks vaccines are bad and that fluo
ridation of municipal water was brainwashing us. But
the Wikileaks have taught us that in a sense, it is rigged.
Hillary was colluding with the media and the White House
to cover up her crime. That crime: Renting herself out as
Secretary of State as a pay-to-play, get.-rich-scheme, shak
ing down foreign governments and corporations. The cur
rent corrupted DOJ will never prosecute Hillary, will never
seat a grand jury, despite overwhelming evidence.
And so the only way the American people will get jus
tice is to consider the Nov. 8 election a grand jury. It’s the
only one there will be. We will either decide that we have
descended into a Banana Republic of corrupt rulers who
are exempt from the laws they impose on us. Or we will
elect Donald J. Trump.
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On Georgia Politics
Vote ‘no’ on judge panel
BY KYLE WINGFIELD
Kyle. Wingfield@ajc.com
have written much
about Amendment 1,
which would create an
Opportunity School
District for chronically fail
ing schools. While it is the most
important statewide ballot ques
tion this year, it is not alone.
Voters face three other consti
tutional amendments
this year. Amendment 1
deserves a “yes” vote. Do
the others?
Amendments 2 and 4
are the same kind of ques
tion asked about different
topics. Both would
levy new taxes and
dedicate the proceeds
to specific causes:
children victimized
by sex trafficking for
Amendment 2, and
trauma care and fire services for
Amendment 4.
Neither cause is objectionable.
Nor are those who’d be taxed to
fund them the most sympathetic
characters: strip clubs and convict
ed sex traffickers for Amendment 2,
fireworks buyers for Amendment 4.
Where this becomes a constitution
al question — and where Georgians
ought to think hard before voting
“yes” — is the dedication of those
funds.
The General Assembly cannot
mandate spending in perpetuity.
Absent restrictions, legislators have
repeatedly put taxes levied for one
purpose into the general fund. Only
a constitutional amendment can
keep their hands out of the cookie
jar.
But there’s a reason the ban on
binding future legislatures is a sta
ple of representative governments:
One can’t know what circumstanc
es lawmakers will face. I have no
problem with state funding for vic
tims of sex trafficking or traumatic
accidents. But would it
really be better during a
recession to cut, say, $1
million from education or
health care than to scale
back this new funding for
fire services? That’s the
bottom-line question in
Amendments 2 and 4.
Then there’s
Amendment 3. It
would reconstitute
the independent
watchdog for judi
cial misconduct, the Judicial
Qualifications Commission. One
key change: The State Bar would
lose all three of its appointments to
the seven-member JQC. Legislative
leaders, who today have none,
would get four — a majority.
Georgia’s JQC has a mixed
record. It was in the news this sum
mer when a newspaper publisher
from Blue Ridge was jailed because
his attempts to get court, spending
records irked a local judge, who
happened to be the chair of the
JQC. Its members have also been
accused of heavy-handed tactics in
some cases.
They’ve also uncovered some pret
ty foul actions by judges, leading
to dozens of resignations. One who
resigned was Johnnie Caldwell, a
Superior Court judge who had left
a sexually suggestive voicemail for
a female attorney.
Caldwell is now a state repre
sentative — and a co-sponsor of
Amendment 3. That’s not a good
look for those claiming they want
to raise the ethical bar at the JQC.
Neither is the fact that. House
Speaker David Ralston is still fight
ing a high-profile battle against the
State Bar.
The biggest problem isn’t that,
(surprise!) there’s politics at play;
it’s that, there’s nothing but politics
at play. The Opportunity School
District came about, after Gov.
Nathan Deal and legislators stud
ied what, other states have done.
There was no such public delib
eration regarding the JQC and
whether legislators are best-suited
to oversee it,.
Our legislators have study com
mittees for numerous subjects.
Surely the state’s judicial-ethics
watchdog merits no less care
ful examination than spaceports.
Maybe they’ll give it, as much if we
vote down Amendment, 3.
Kyle Wingfield writes for The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the
Monroe County Reporter and other
newspapers. Reach him and read
more at www.bit.ly/KyleWingfield.
As I See It
I shall return, snowflakes
BY CLAUDE CURT EE
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T his will be the last, column
before the elections. The
results of the election will
make some people happy
and will make some people
unhappy.
The ending of this election cycle
will give us a chance to sit, back and
look at, what, has happened during
this campaign. We see one candidate
whose campaign has been financed
by foreign interest, groups; her big
gest, contributor is a foreigner and
communist, George Soros. She is
supported by special interest, groups
on Wall Street,. Trump the other can
didate has been largely self-financed
and is supported by the ones who
want the swamp drained and gov
ernment, for the people and by the
people once again.
I believe that, whoever is
elected, we are at, a very
critical crossroads. We are
headed in one of two totally
different, directions. Hillary
wants a bigger government,,
with more controls on your
personal life, more regula
tions hindering job
growth, higher taxes,
and increasing mis
ery. A Trump vic
tory will result, in the
Washington cronyism
being brought, fully into the open,
lower taxes, a people-first, govern
ment, once again, and a resurgence of
the American can-do attitude.
We must, ask ourselves why have
there been so many different, groups
(Democrats, Wall Street,, established
Republicans and the news media)
who are supposed to have different,
beliefs and objectives opposed to
Trump. The simple answer is the
different, groups have the same objec
tive, which is to maintain the status
quo and grow control over the people.
If Hillary is elected, she will soon
put us into a war to prove how
strong she is. I also believe she feels
humiliated by Putin. She will cause
the economy to collapse. We will be
flooded by even more illegal immi
grants. We will see a huge increase
in terrorist, activities in this country
by the radical Islamist, she brings
into the country. Our health care
system will be completely destroyed.
I can’t, see any upside in her being
president,.
Hillary will repeal the 2nd
Amendment, through the courts or
try to by executive action. After that,
is accomplished, she will attack the
Bill of Rights. It, has been shown and
proven, Hillary, the DNC and The
Democratic Party have used and
will use violence to silence the ones
with whom they don’t, agree. They
have even gone to the point, of pay
ing people to incite violence against,
opponents, both Democrat, and
Republican. Hillary will use every
means possible, legal and illegal, to
silence and defeat, opposition. She
has used paid violent, instigators to
disrupt, her opponents. She will do
away with free speech and assembly
to accomplish her agenda.
The actions and the way Hillary,
the DNC and the Democratic
Party are operating are
exactly how Hitler and his
brown shirts operated. One
of Hitler’s first, actions was to
forbid the private ownership
of guns. History can repeat,
itself. I believe what, we are
seeing is a repeat, of the one
of the worst, political
parties ever, which
was The Nazi Party,
led by Adolph Hitler.
If Hillary is elected,
her election will
validate that, it, is OK to be corrupt,,
a chronic compulsive liar, show no
respect, for ones who died on her
watch, that laws do not apply to cer
tain people, it’s OK to sell American
assets for personal gain, use violence
to achieve objectives and also prove
she is right, about, her supporters
that, they are naive, stupid and easily
led.
I started writing this column
about 19 months ago. I have had the
reward of many people expressing
enjoyment, in reading the column.
I have enjoyed the challenge of
writing the column and must say I
never saw it, as a chore. I have tried
to express that, American people
achieved greatness because people
were free to pursue their desires and
not, controlled by the government,.
The people believed and proved they
could succeed if given the opportuni
ty; they also believed the government,
was not, their keeper.
We have become less free and if the
trend continues we will be less free
and more government-controlled. Too
many people believe it, is the govern
ment’s duty to insure their happiness
and support,. The Constitution says
you have the right, to pursue happi
ness, not, the government, will insure
your happiness. The American
dream is being extinguished by a
corrupt, government, system and the
efforts of the Democratic Party to
make earned success evil. Where,
other than in the Democratic Party,
Socialism and Communism, is
achieving success seen as wrong and
treated as evil? Where, other than in
the Democratic Party, Socialism and
Communism are corrupt, leaders the
chosen ones and the news media is
controlled by the corrupt,.
I invite you to read at, least, the
first and second paragraphs of the
Declaration of Independence. The
paragraphs speak to what, the people
should do when the government,
becomes abusive and tyrannical. It, is
my opinion we are fast, approaching
what, our forefathers saw as unac
ceptable. Our forefathers, who wrote
the Declaration of Independence, pro
vided us a means to achieve freedom,
prosperity and happiness through
the Declaration of Independence, The
Bill of Rights and our Constitution.
These documents are being cast,
aside by our political structure today.
For the last, 19 months I have
been caught, up in the political mess
we are in. I have spared no one.
I have voiced my discontent, with
Republicans and Democrats.
I believe now it, is time for me to
step back for a little while and take
a break. My sincere thanks to Will
Davis for permitting me to voice my
opinions, Will has never attempted
to influence me; he gave me free rein
to express by opinions. As I said on
occasion, I am not politically correct -
just, correct,.
For now I say goodbye, and in clos
ing I will use a quote from a great,
American leader: “I shall return”. So
snowflakes, don’t, get, too comfortable.
Claude Curlee of Forsyth is a.
Vietnam veteran and a member of
the. Monroe County GOP.
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