God bless the working people
My routine was interrupted on Monday morning in the early hours. My car would not start after I stopped for gas on my way to work. I panicked only for a moment, till on the other end of the phone my husband said I am on my way.
Being forced to sit still, I began to watch the trucks start pulling in to the store where I was waiting. It began to occur to me as I was watching the log trucks, dump trucks and other vehicles pulling in to fill their tanks, grabbing coffee and snacks on their way to wherever.
I sat there in awe of it all. My daily routine is locked behind four walls of a plant, where I have spent 30 years. But here before me, lives coming and going, I felt privileged at that moment to have had time to witness this.
There were no beautiful mountain scenes, no wonderful landscape before me, just life, the comings and goings of individuals that I may never see again and they did not even know that they were being watched.
No vacationers, no tourists and no families setting out for some fun destination. No, at this moment they were working people just doing what was necessary to get their day started.
It was beautiful, it was glorious. God bless the working men and women.
J.D. Plemmons
Murphy
Trump must be indicted
Now there’s a smoking gun to indict former President Donald Trump. White House insider and Jan. 6 committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson provided startling and compelling evidence that Trump deliberately set out to incite an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Before giving his inflammatory speech, Hutchinson testified, Trump was told his supporters were armed with guns, knives, spears, and flagpoles, and were wearing body armor.
When his speech concluded, Trump was informed that his supporters were already attacking Capitol police. He wanted to join them, Hutchinson said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland still hesitates to indict Trump, perhaps fearing it would inflame MAGA Republicans. But letting that stop you is as good as saying that presidents are above the law.
Not indicting would be far more dangerous, because the threat to democracy is not yet over. There is a deep fissure between those who know that President Joe Biden won the election and those in the thrall of the big lie; between those who were shocked by the lethal violence on Jan. 6 and those who say it was “legitimate political discourse,” as the Republican National Committee claims; and between those who believe in peaceful elections and those who think violence is warranted when they lose.
Those who believe in democracy must push back against all of these dangers. But since the big lie is the excuse for the attacks, the place to start is with the lie’s author. Trump must be indicted for sedition for attempting to overthrow the government of the United States.
Jim Grazis
Young Harris, Ga.
Judgment is coming soon
America is in a death spiral. The stench of our moral decay, America’s 63 million abortions, the sexually perverse and their rabid captivity of the minds of children toward sexual perversion have brought on God’s fierce judgment.
God has removed His protective hand from America. Christ is allowing Satan’s unleashing of the seals, the Four Horseman.
The criminal Federal Reserve, a privately owned banking system, has infused $21 trillion into our economy, purposely inflating the money supply in order to destroy our economy with inflation. This was no accident, these moneychangers aren’t stupid, they’re evil.
President Joe Biden’s spending, including giving Ukraine $80 billion has intensified our destruction. Biden/NATO have placed sanctions on Russia to destroy its economy and starve the Russian people. However, their plan backfired, as Russia is prospering by selling oil to India and China. So why not stop the sanctions? Because Biden’s sanctions are meant to destroy America, and the world, with food and energy inflation and shortages.
Biden is sending approximately 1 million barrels a day from our strategic petroleum reserve to China and Europe, draining America’s emergency supply and raising gas prices. He’s also sending natural gas to Europe.
Biden/NATO’s goal is “The Great Reset” to control the world’s economies, enslaving us. These bullying NATO nations took Russia off the Swift Banking System to destroy Russia. However, the BRICS nations now include Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt. This union will form their own banking system, further weakening the dollar.
Putin told Biden if U.S. bombs hit Russia that it would initiate World War III, and America would be attacked. So Biden then sent M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems to Ukraine, of which three have been used to bomb Russia.
We will soon pay for Biden’s actions. Americans will not escape God’s just judgment.
Mary Mason
Murphy
‘The Great Uneasy’ here
Eighteen months after then-President Donald Trump attempted to overthrow our government, we’re still in the middle of a Great Uneasy.
Covid-19 is still sickening us; we’ve got a 10 percent rate of inflation, and greed has sprung up among the rich. Oil industry profits have doubled. $5 a gallon diesel raises everyone’s costs, and $100 to fill up your gas tank has become commonplace.
In the good old Dolly Parton days, all the country people were comfortably poor. Most all of us are getting poor again, so we may as well get comfortable.
Instead of blaming each other, blame the greedy. With so many of us poor, a healthy country socialism may come pretty easy.
Harry Holdorf
Brasstown
A closer look at U.S. energy
Dr. Vernon Dixon’s July 13 letter contains information I believe is inaccurate.
Before this administration, America thrived and had the cleanest air and water, the best in my 62 years.
God blessed America with more oil, gas and natural resources than most countries. Natural gas burns clean. America’s coal power plants use scrubbers, which produce only purified water vapor from smoke. This clean energy also means high-paying jobs.
The only truth in Dixon’s letter is that China produces more wind and solar equipment than the U.S. However, they aren’t used. They build 20 coal plants annually without scrubbers, don’t participate in the Paris Climate Accord and, besides America, are the biggest user of petroleum products.
U.S. energy studies show current infrastructure doesn’t support green energy. Plus, it’s 4-6 times more expensive. While solar and wind energy are subject to sun and nature irregularities, gas and coal plants are not. We have safe nuclear power plants as another good option.
Outrageously high gas prices have nothing to do with Russia and everything to do with our puppet president, who sends billions of dollars to Ukraine under Zelenskyy. Two and-a-half years ago I paid $1.89 per gallon because we were energy independent.
Regarding carbon dioxide, it has never been a problem for humans. God’s plan means all animals breath out C02 which all plants and trees take in, before producing oxygen for us.
The globalists want zero C02 emission, which would kill all life forms on earth. It is not about helping people or saving the planet. The goal is power and putting massive amounts of money in globalist billionaires’ pockets.
It appears Dixon favors Marxist globalists and their agenda, putting actual science aside. Like many others, he seems to have succumbed to the globalists’
brainwashing. We should be smarter than that.
Michael Frazier
Murphy
Wake up, taxpayers
In the beginning, Roman Centurions (6,000 men) were carefully selected. They provided necessary stability to the entire system because they developed an elaborate system of lying and were known for being corrupt, but they turned away their ears from the truth and crucified Jesus.
Beginning in 1689, England and France were engaged in a worldwide struggle for colonies and commerce. The Sugar Act, Stamp Act and Townshend Acts were all designed to increase revenue for Britain, arousing anger among the colonists.
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. Once free, the colonies failed to solve its economic and political problems. Again, the corrupt system drew up an entirely new plan of government and wrote a new Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. Article One, Section Eight – to lay and collect taxes.
However, a task that was uppermost in the minds of the representatives was the prevention of tyranny. Accordingly, they decided to set up a system in which no one person or agency could make a law, arrest a violator, find him guilty and punish him.
Even worse, Moscow and Teheran (Iran) paved the way for a new world organization in 1943, which they agreed to call the United Nations in 1944. On April 12, 1945, one of the chief architects of the United Nations, Franklin D. Roosevelt, died. Two weeks after his death and four terms in office, the day-to-day work of the U.N. Charter is entrusted to a staff known as the “Secretariat,” about 6,000 people from all over the world.
Furthermore, the president, Congress, big tech, big business, lawyers, judges, courts, government unions and religious groups do not have the power to legislate as they sees fit because of the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution.
Cotton Allen
Brasstown