Let Grand Old Flag Fly Editor’s Note: This message was dropped off anonymously at The Freeman’s Journal office at 21 Railroad Ave. I respectfully request the Village of Cooperstown return to raising our flag on Pioneer and Main to full staff. We have had the flag lowered for over a half-year to respect the sick and the deceased. That was good, and important to locals and visitors to our blessed town who travel here from around the world. Sadly, there…
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Letters To The Editor - Page 98
LETTER from CHRISTIAN BASHEAR Protect Our Gun-Using Traditions To the Editor: To express my support of the Second Amendment, I joined the 2AS group here in Otsego County when it was first organized. For far too long, the New York State government has passed more and more insane gun controls without seeming to care at all that they may be unconstitutional infringements to my right to keep and bear arms. I also am sick of the insulting name-calling pro-gun control…
LETTER from JAY FLEISCHER Much Can Be Expected From President Biden To the Editor: Presidential election results show the popular vote exceeds 145 million (75+ to 70+). The candidate with 75+ pledged to unite America, which will require the cooperation of the 70+. That’s what unity means. To bring America together again and to achieve unity guided by law and order will require the support and partnership of both political parties. With the Presidential change on Jan. 20, 2021, we…
LETTER from RICK BROCKWAY Gun Deaths? What About DUI, 9/11? To the Editor: Whenever I decide to comment on something, I first gather the facts. That, however, doesn’t seem the practice of many people in the area. First, the League of Women Voters commented on the 2nd Amendment Sanctuary Movement. Then it was Mary Ann Whelan and others. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and they can speak or write their thoughts. The Freedom of Speech is guaranteed in the…
LETTER from GARRETT deBLIECK Founder’s Goal: Individual Sovereignty To the Editor: Recent discourse has revealed an alarming ignorance concerning the Bill of Rights. It seems a prudent reminder that the origin of these listed Rights was, in fact, part and parcel to how America became a nation. The foundation of our Bill of Rights comes directly from the Declaration of Independence. For the Declaration itself listed “certain unalienable rights,” which were transgressed by Great Britain. The Bill of Rights echoes…
LETTER from BUZZ HESSE Early History Here Involved ‘Savagery’ Editor’s Note: Proceed with caution here. Some of the descriptions are pretty rough. To the Editor: I would like to address the controversy surrounding the “Sullivan Expedition of 1779” plaque erected in 1912 in Neahwa Park by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Oneonta Chapter. Common Council member Luke Murphy, who is seeking a review of the plaque, has referred to some of the language and ideas on the marker as…
LETTER from STEVE LONDNER Let’s Be Civilized Land, Edit Plaque To the Editor: It’s been nearly 50 years since Oneonta’s Neahwa Park actually fronted the Susquehanna River, as still claimed in the plaque there that commemorates Sullivan’s 1779 Expedition. And it was 60 years earlier, in 1912, that the plaque was written and commissioned. Time passes. Things change. Language matters. And history does seem to want to repeat itself. As detailed in his article, “Massacre & Retribution: The 1779-80 Sullivan…
BE AFRAID, BUT DO IT ANYWAY A Scary World Awaits: I’m There! I grew up outside a tiny Upstate village. With ideals. Maybe an even bigger share of naïveté. Barely 21, I set off to the other side of the earth. Emigrating to New Zealand. Where to start? I went to the local travel agent. She had never booked a trip out of country that was not part of a package … and never 13,000 miles. I wanted to see…
LETTER from MOLLY SWAIN It’s Time To Let Columbus Regard Go To the Editor: Claudia Tenney – you need to relearn your history of the Americas! (Re column, Oct. 15-16.) Italian-Americans have more to offer North America than Columbus! Said man gleaned money from the Spanish king and queen who gave him enough money to buy the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. He told them he would sail east and find a new place for them and more gold. Columbus…
LETTER from ALLEN ANDERSON Election May Preserve Our Flawed, Free Nation To the Editor: If this is not the most important election in my lifetime, it nonetheless ranks as one that I feel is more important than most. In the last four years there has been a consistent and unrelenting drum beat of negativism surrounding our country and our president, his character, and the state of the nation. There have been street riots, calls for social justice, accusations from every…
