Viewpoints

To the Editor:

I really can’t believe I’m writing this letter. I’ll be 99 on November 6, if I live that long, but here goes.

I’m not very happy with our previous government, Biden and his group. I’m sure you will all agree with me when I say Putin is a war criminal and Biden is a nation destroyer. He should be put in jail.

He purposely tried to ruin our country. He opened our borders wide open to lots of undesirables, and they came flooding in. He closed the pipeline which laid off maybe a thousand people and caused the gas and fuel price to go up greatly.

Biden is a great supporter of Planned Parenthood. Right now we are bringing back lots of manufacturing and we will be short of workers. If Planned Parenthood had not eliminated 40 million babies, we would have plenty of workers.

To the Editor:

As a concerned citizen of Allamakee County, I would like to bring attention to the vital role Medicaid plays in our local healthcare system. Medicaid is a crucial source of funding for healthcare services, providing essential coverage to low-income individuals and families who might otherwise be unable to afford necessary medical care.

Medicaid helps to fill the gap in healthcare coverage, allowing patients to receive vital services such as doctor visits, hospital stays, and prescription medications. By providing this coverage, Medicaid helps to:
• Reduce the number of uninsured individuals in our community
• Improve health outcomes for those who might otherwise go without care
• Alleviate the financial burden on local hospitals and healthcare providers.

To the Editor:

This is content of an email I sent to the six-person U.S. Congressional Delegation Friday, April 18, 2025. I seems to me they can be reminded of the weight of their oath of office.

Senator Charles Grassley and Senator Joni Ernst, as senators-elect at the beginning of their term in office, spoke the oath of office in an open session of the Senate.

Representatives Mariannette Miller-Meeks from District 1, Ashley Hinson from District 2, Zach Nunn from District 3 and Randy Feenstra from District 4 spoke the oath of office to defend the Constitution in a group swearing-in on the House Floor on the opening day of Congress.

To the Editor:

Ann Hart (in her April 23, 2025 letter to the editor) would have you believe that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien and leading member of MS-13, is an innocent victim being forced illegally from the country by the Trump Administration. She points out that Garcia came to this country when he was 16 because he was being persecuted and threatened by another gang in El Salvador.

It may be that he was being threatened by another gang, however, he himself was/is a leading member of MS-13, which is not a boy scout organization and which was at war with the other gang. They specialize in murder, rape and terrorizing to control their own territory in their home country. Look at his tattoo if you doubt the veracity of this claim.

Then she would have you believe that the Trump Administration is just like the Nazis in the early stages of their formation as a world dominating force.

To the Editor:

Americans should be outraged as the Trump administration, once again, violates the Constitution and the rule of law by “disappearing” men to a foreign Gulag. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who fled gang violence in El Salvador in 2011, is married to a U.S. citizen and has U.S.-citizen children. In 2019 he received a court order requiring that he not be deported to El Salvador due to likelihood of persecution.

Despite that, Garcia was arrested along with hundreds of men and sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in El Salvador. No attempt was made to prove these men were gang members or that they had violated any law despite the Fifth Amendment which guarantees that no person can be deprived of “life, liberty or property, without due process of law.”

To the Editor:

The rule of law is wobbling in America. The Trump administration has taken people off the street, accused them of being a terrorist, and removed them from our country without a hearing or due process.
Abre Garcia was 16 when he came to the U.S. to escape threats and being terrorized in his own country. He was given a work permit, had a full-time job and family, checked in annually with Immigration, and was living a productive life. March 12, ICE agents pulled him into a car, and March 15 he was sent to the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador that is known for torture, abuse, and killings. (Our government is paying El Salvador $6 million a year to incarcerate individuals there.)

March 31, the U.S. admitted Garcia’s arrest was done by mistake but there was nothing that could be done about it. Since that time the case has moved through the courts, including the Supreme Court, which ruled that Garcia should be brought home.

Why is it called “Good Friday?” It should be called “Bad Friday!” That was a response I received some years ago from an individual after his return from such a service. This conversation did not take place in a church building but in the hallway of a busy professional institution. I was able to share with this individual the true good that actually took place on that historic day.

Many of us know the significance of Good Friday, or at least a portion of it that puts us at ease. Many of us know the price that was paid for our sin on the cross by Jesus the Christ. I’m also aware that many have missed or overlooked another major and significant benefit that was paid for that fateful day before the cross. This event had been prophesied years prior to its coming to pass.

To the Editor:

The current pseudo government is attempting to defund all money for libraries. This type of control has got to stop.

This negative action is backed by parents trying to remove informative books that they are afraid for their children to read. Maybe if they informed themselves more, they would be able to pass along correct information too.

That’s why we need libraries. Please read, be informed and be supportive of our libraries.

Sincerely,
Julaine Keyser
Ferryville, WI
 

To the Editor:

Our veterans gave years, if not decades, of service for the United States, protecting us in times of peace and war. The United States government recognized the vital importance of veterans and in 1865 President Lincoln created a network to care for wounded Civil War soldiers.

Our current president has decided that veterans are “suckers and losers” and that they are falsely receiving benefits, underperforming at their jobs, and syphoning unearned money from the government. In fact, he chose to go golfing, instead of honoring four fallen soldiers killed in Lithuania.
Wednesday, April 3, DOGE canceled 47 contracts worth over $878.5 million from Veterans Affairs (4-3-2025, Newsweek, Rahman). Upgrades to computer systems and research contracts were cut, as well as closing some service centers.

Dr. David Moessner was one of the seminary professors who taught me the New Testament. Though he had the kind heart of a pastor, Dr. Moessner was nonetheless an intimidating figure - not only because his scholarship was so rich but also because he read Scripture in its original Greek with the same ease that you and I read English.

His teaching style always invited seminarians to read aloud the particular Bible passage of the day’s study. My classmates and I shared various English translations, and Dr. Moessner followed along in his beloved biblical Greek. Occasionally, he would interrupt the reading with a bracing judgment: “That’s a horrible translation” - faulting not the talent of the reciting student but the choices of the Bible’s English translators.