2 weeks Ago By Letters to the Editor
The recent demonstrations capture an essential message that the self-serving oligarchs, and their toadying mega corporations and Republican enablers have ignored: Hands off our government. Hands off our National Parks Hands off our Social Security Hands off our HealthCare Hands off our Libraries Hands off our Schools Hands off our Universities Hands off our National Weather Service Hands off our Environmental Protection Agency Hands off our US AID Hands off our State Department Hands off our Department off Justice Hands off our Military and Veterans Hands off our Internal Revenue Service Hands off our Credit Unions These and other objects targeted for destruction by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have all been developed and sustained over many decades by our representative government and judiciary to serve the interests of we the people, not the whims and ego of one man or a corporate elite who want to undo what they do not like. As stated eloquently by Abraham Lincoln (a Republican no less) in his Gettysburg Address: “.
.. we here highly resolve .
.. that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.
” And by the way, hands off my fellow citizens and neighbors! Your unlawful deportations are shameful. Joe Green-Heffern Fairfield Editor's Note: The Lincoln quote is accurate to its intent, but it should not be forgotten that Lincoln was calling on the living to " take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion..
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