Believe what you saw on Jan. 6 Hunter Stedman, January 28, 2025 Seeing is believing The current president wants you to not believe what you see and hear. I saw the Jan. 6 insurrectionists — traitors to our country — violently attacking and beating police officers of the United States of America. I saw the insurrectionists tear apart our Capitol. I saw a gallows set up and I heard insurrectionists screaming that they wanted to hang Mike Pence. I saw horrible, unjustifiable violence against the Capitol Police. I guess I am WOKE because I believe what I saw and heard. … I am not a robot who blindly agrees with false propaganda spewed by the current president and radical-right Republicans. You don’t have to be an “elite” with “higher education” to have common sense and believe the truth. People are also reading… Your life and your children’s lives depend on using your common sense and believing in yourself and what you see and hear not what you are told to believe. The release of these convicted violent Jan. 6 insurrectionists and traitors to our country is extremely disrespectful to all of us and a crime against American citizens. Please protect them An open letter to Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd: I am calling on you to stand up for transgender citizens in the next week and beyond. It is not constitutional to strip away rights from law-abiding citizens based on their gender identity. Have you met and spoken to any transgender people? They are just like you and me … earning a living, taking care of their families, paying taxes, mowing the yard. Unlike you and me, they are subjected to harassment from fellow citizens and now from the U.S. government. In the 1980s, it was argued that homosexuality was a choice, and they shouldn’t be allowed to be teachers, get married or have families. Many do not believe that any longer. Being transgender is also not a choice! Why would anyone choose a life of discrimination and harassment? Even if one does believe that being transgender is a choice, should any law-abiding U.S. citizen be banned from getting a passport, effectively eliminating their ability to travel? Is it more important to debate for hours about the miniscule number of transgender students in sports while families are more concerned about violence in the schools? If you really want to protect children, work to stop school shootings! As a strong ally and a church elder, I implore you to protect your transgender constituents. Jesus preached of the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.” Let it be so. Cause and effect As anticipated with the inauguration of Donald Trump, we now collectively suffer the constant diatribes, for the most part promulgated to keep his outlandishly needy ego in the forefront at all times. What has struck me this time around, however, is how unhinged, how divorced from logic and reality his statements and alleged issues have become. We have been taken out of the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Accord; he has declared an energy crisis, one we all know doesn’t exist. We’ve seen attempts to appoint wildly unqualified Cabinet members. Does anyone believe truly there is any way that Pete Hegseth is remotely prepared to run the Department of Defense with its 3 million employees? I cannot begin to list all the idiocy. Gulf of America? Chinese Soldiers patrolling the Panama Canal? Annexing Canada and invading Greenland? Climate change is a hoax therefore we should attempt to dismantle the very real steps we’ve taken to combat it so we can “drill baby drill.” Most of this ( and there’s a lot more) sounds so ridiculous we tend to shrug it off. But here’s the thing: There’s no basic logic, no apparent consideration of cause and effect. And make no mistake, these effects are potentially monumental. Be shovel-ready Your headline today (“Bond money runs far short for Guilford County Schools,” Jan. 19) said the school construction bond money approved by the voters in 2020 and 2022 will provide about half of the money needed for construction projects in our schools. Maybe more could have been accomplished if the projects had been ready to go as soon as the bonds were approved. Some inflation expenses (71% you said) could have been saved. In the future, get the plans ready and the construction bids done before asking us to pay for them. Catch the latest in Opinion Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly! Source link Pet News donald trumppolitics