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Dear Editor,

She has always been like the shining city on the hill.

America has always made us so proud. Where else in this world have the people been so free? There have never been an oppressed people on this earth that America has not set free.

We that have been here since the forties know this to be true. Never has our government tried to take the American people over.

Until now.

Now our government is trying to change. Not for the good of the people of America. Now our government wants to change over and be more like the government we have known as far-away Russia.

The present administration want the American people to work for them, not the other way around. A lot of the older folks I have talked to mostly say this: let this new generation of people find out the hard way.

But I say it will be too late then. In the first place they don’t know what freedom is if they have never lived it. The only thing they know is what this new government tells them what they must do, and cannot do anymore. They are being brainwashed now by their own government.

The Chinese have always been so good at that. Their own people don’t know they have never been free.

We must vote these people out of our government in November. We must live free.

Fred S. Caudle

Rockingham

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telltales
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August 09, 2012
JBee, using your logic then, since the 2nd amendment does not specify ammunition, then no one has the right or privilige to purchase or own ammunition, just the arms. No where in the constitution does it say the people have a right or privilige to buy ammo or have it.
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JBee
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August 10, 2012
OK telltales, I will play your game. And I do not have the right to buy ammunition or a weapon for that matter. Without proper Identification. Which I do not have a problem with. Nor do I have a problem showing the same proper ID to vote. Thank you for proving my point so effortlessly.
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JBee
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August 08, 2012
The 15th ammendment was ratified in 1870, it was a reconstruction ammendment. It does not give rights to vote, at the time they had the issue of people being unable to vote becuase of the color of thier skin or the amount of money in thier pocket. States and counties were passing laws that said blacks or previous slaves could not vote. Therefore the 15th ammendment was born, telling states that they could not refuse a person to vote, just because of their skin color or previous status. And since there is not constitutional right to vote, they also made the ammendment 19, to say that one cannot be discriminated against and not allowed to vote based solely on sex, and the 26th ammendent to stop age discrimination. You can read the constitution through many times, and you will not find anything gaurenteeing the right to vote, only things to protect the vote from discrimination. There were many reasons that people could not vote, and still are. It does not take a genius to figure these things out. Just a little common sense and reading the constitution and ammendments as well as understanding the history of them. If you cannot understand this, OH WELL, you never will.
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telltales
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August 08, 2012
jmdd11, President Bush signed into law in July of 2006 extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Republican controlled Congress pushed the bill through. Notice it is the Voting Rights Act, not the voting privilige act.
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telltales
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August 08, 2012
JBee, this is a typical neo-con response. Think up new ways to deny the people the right to vote. It is not a privilige it is a right and says so. It does not list things that will deny the voter his or her rights. You do not lose a privilige to vote because of felony conviction you lose a right.It says nothing about having to have a photo ID in the amendment, and if it does not say that, then it is not there.

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jmdd11
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August 08, 2012
Now, there's no need to get nasty, telltales, unless of course you don't want to have intelligent discussions. I have a few retorts, but choose not to use them because I think it only belittles these boards.
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JBee
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August 08, 2012
telltales,

sorry to say, you may be the one in need of a history lesson. Do not read only the second word, but the entire sentence. It says the right to vote may not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any other state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This ammendment does not give everyone the right to vote, it lists things that one cannot use to deny the right to vote. Proper ID is not on the list. So it is a privilege to vote that can be lost for certain things, such as being a convicted felon, or not haveing ID if chosen to be that way.
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telltales
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August 06, 2012
jmdd11, You might want to re-read your first 2 paragraphs. Duh! The very second word you wrote in paragraph 1 states very clearly "the right". You really need a history lesson.
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jmdd11
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August 06, 2012
Umm, TellTales? You might want to re-read the US Constitution. The 15th Amendment states: "1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html



Nowhere within the US Constitution is it explicitly stated that American citizens have the "right" to vote.
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telltales
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August 04, 2012
Mr. Caudle, for once you are correct in your thinking. The Republican Congress and Republican Governors and State legislatures have passed many laws aimed at voters rights and womwn's health.

We are under an assault by this group of right wing zelots intent on destroying our freedom and liberty. Yes, let us vote them out of office in Nov.

However, I think you should ask North Korea and Syria among many others if they are free.
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osamaobama
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August 05, 2012
Voters rights? Are you speaking of proper identification to vote? You have to have a picture I D to rent a car, a motel room, or even rent a movie. The only possible reason anyone would not want this is to have illegal people voting.

As far as womens health, are you speaking of abortion on demand?

Libtards speak in deceit and half truths. Destroying freedom? oBuchwheat is trying to destroy not only freedom, but our nation!
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telltales
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August 05, 2012
That is what you neo-cons don't understand about a free country. When you rent a car,motel room or movie those are a privilege. When a person goes to vote that is a "right" not a privilege.

The Republicans want to let a Congressman not a Doctor make the decisions about what a woman does with her body, its her "right."

I will not comment on your racist talk, because we all know what your problem is. And yes oBuckwheat is racist!
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