Letters to the Editor 11-07-2002
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Trick-Or-Treat
Editor, Times-Union:To the Pierceton resident who was so worried about giving candy to children from out of town? Three of those children you questioned were my grandchildren. They are from North Webster. You take your children where you know it's safe. It's too bad Pierceton has people like you. And my grandchildren will be trick or treating next year, so turn your lights off and sit in the dark.
Mazie Elder
Pierceton
via e-mail
Recycling
Editor, Times-Union:Saturday I took a lot of recyclable materials to the drop-off boxes in Etna Green. To my horror I found that some person or persons had used these for just trash. For financial reasons the company which picks up recyclables cannot sort the materials, so the whole mess goes to the landfill. For those of us who are trying to conserve our natural materials, our effort has been in vain. Please, people, don't put stuff in these bins that does not belong there.
Also, starting the first of the new year the recyclable bins will be centralized to South Union Street between West Market Street and West Winona Avenue. This will be a little more inconvenient for some of us, but as good citizens we need to make the effort. This should put a stop to those who are ruining it now.
Fred R. Yohey
Warsaw
Where's The Justice
Editor, Times-Union:As we've watched in horror, the events of the past three weeks with the sniper in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia area, I feel I must speak out about an incident that happened to me, right here in Kosciusko County.
August 4, 1999, I had a gun pointed at me and the person doing the pointing of the gun said, "This is what I have for you." Now, one big difference between me and the sniper's victims is that they never saw it coming - I was looking down the barrel and into the face of my shooter. Even though he didn't actually shoot me, but in fact put the gun back in his truck and drove away, this event has changed my life forever.
The man was arrested and went to Kosciusko Superior Court 2 with his attorney (a very prominent attorney in town) and pleaded guilty to the offense of pointing a firearm. He was given a one-year suspended sentence and a year's probation, the minimum sentence he could receive.
I filed a civil suit against this man in Kosciusko Superior Court 1. I had a certified copy of the court record from Superior Court 2 where he pleaded guilty. His attorney who was present when he pleaded guilty presented an affidavit to Kosciusko Superior Court 1 stating that his client didn't point a gun at anyone. The judge accepted both the certified record from Superior Court 2 and the affidavit saying he didn't do it. The judge then granted him summary judgment based on his affidavit.
How do you plead guilty in one court to pointing a firearm and go to another court and say you're innocent? This is perjury. Perjury is a felony - here in Kosciusko County you can go to one court and plead guilty and tell another court you didn't do it and get away with it, and your attorney knowingly presents a perjured affidavit, and in the end you come out a winner. His brother is one of our county commissioners and his cousin is the county sheriff. Would our justice system in Kosciusko County look at the sniper or anyone else committing a crime and, because of his family connections, then decide justice? Think about it.
Kenny Shepherd
Claypool
Flat Earth Society
Editor, Times-Union:For a long time I felt like Eric Taylor. I thought my group wasn't represented in Congress. I am a charter member of the Flat Earth Society. Mr. Taylor is sure there is no god and I am just as sure that there is no round earth.
I have been reading a novel off and on and in it there is a statement: "He who says there is no God is a fool." But the most important statement in this book said: "Men presuming themselves to be wise have become fools." Now, doesn't that take in a lot of Congress? I think we are both well represented there.
I think if this book would have called the Ten Commandments the "Ten Recommendations" the ACLU wouldn't have objected so much. I served in Europe with the Third Army and I know what commandments are; there ain't much room to wiggle.
Now, some say we are wasting time and money in organizations fighting things we know don't exist - hmmm! food for thought!
Occasionally people try to show us facts to prove us wrong, but we must stick to our beliefs. One of Indiana's legislators a while back said he would never allow himself to be confused with facts - my hero!
I will say one thing - the atheists and the ACLU are taken very seriously in court, where the Flat Earth Society is not. You have successfully chased God out of the schools, along with the Ten Commandments. A possible positive effect from this has been relieving overcrowded classrooms. With the rattle of gunfire around schools, many are now going to home schooling.
We noted your success and decided it was high time for us to file a suite in federal court to have the round world globes removed from all classrooms. This misleads students to believe the world is round. Instead of getting your respect in court, our representatives were given a breathalyzer test and they and the lawsuit were physically thrown out of court - very humiliating!
Our Flat Earth Society is firmly convinced that these people listed in missing persons columns with their pictures plastered around here and there merely traveled too far east or west and simply went over the edge.
If in a very unlikely case we are proven wrong, we will probably be branded heretics and our Society will fall harmlessly into the pages of history, such as the Bull Moose Party, the Hapsburgs and Hoherryollerns.
Now, if the atheists (hardly likely) should be wrong, it might have dire ramifications. If one should appear at the judgment seat of Christ, quoting the Constitution and some weird court decisions, it might not influence the judge, and there might not be an appeals process or even a stay of execution. Also, it is extremely unlikely that Bill Clinton will be there to grant a pardon! Again, something to consider.
Now, I abhor people writing letters to the editor and sticking a title in front or after their names; M.D.s and college professors are the worst offenders. They reason this gives them some special knowledge of world affairs.
In this case I must violate my own principles and express my impeccable credentials.
George Plew
Research director of the Land of Oz
Division of the Plain Township Flat Earth Society
Warsaw
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Trick-Or-Treat
Editor, Times-Union:To the Pierceton resident who was so worried about giving candy to children from out of town? Three of those children you questioned were my grandchildren. They are from North Webster. You take your children where you know it's safe. It's too bad Pierceton has people like you. And my grandchildren will be trick or treating next year, so turn your lights off and sit in the dark.
Mazie Elder
Pierceton
via e-mail
Recycling
Editor, Times-Union:Saturday I took a lot of recyclable materials to the drop-off boxes in Etna Green. To my horror I found that some person or persons had used these for just trash. For financial reasons the company which picks up recyclables cannot sort the materials, so the whole mess goes to the landfill. For those of us who are trying to conserve our natural materials, our effort has been in vain. Please, people, don't put stuff in these bins that does not belong there.
Also, starting the first of the new year the recyclable bins will be centralized to South Union Street between West Market Street and West Winona Avenue. This will be a little more inconvenient for some of us, but as good citizens we need to make the effort. This should put a stop to those who are ruining it now.
Fred R. Yohey
Warsaw
Where's The Justice
Editor, Times-Union:As we've watched in horror, the events of the past three weeks with the sniper in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia area, I feel I must speak out about an incident that happened to me, right here in Kosciusko County.
August 4, 1999, I had a gun pointed at me and the person doing the pointing of the gun said, "This is what I have for you." Now, one big difference between me and the sniper's victims is that they never saw it coming - I was looking down the barrel and into the face of my shooter. Even though he didn't actually shoot me, but in fact put the gun back in his truck and drove away, this event has changed my life forever.
The man was arrested and went to Kosciusko Superior Court 2 with his attorney (a very prominent attorney in town) and pleaded guilty to the offense of pointing a firearm. He was given a one-year suspended sentence and a year's probation, the minimum sentence he could receive.
I filed a civil suit against this man in Kosciusko Superior Court 1. I had a certified copy of the court record from Superior Court 2 where he pleaded guilty. His attorney who was present when he pleaded guilty presented an affidavit to Kosciusko Superior Court 1 stating that his client didn't point a gun at anyone. The judge accepted both the certified record from Superior Court 2 and the affidavit saying he didn't do it. The judge then granted him summary judgment based on his affidavit.
How do you plead guilty in one court to pointing a firearm and go to another court and say you're innocent? This is perjury. Perjury is a felony - here in Kosciusko County you can go to one court and plead guilty and tell another court you didn't do it and get away with it, and your attorney knowingly presents a perjured affidavit, and in the end you come out a winner. His brother is one of our county commissioners and his cousin is the county sheriff. Would our justice system in Kosciusko County look at the sniper or anyone else committing a crime and, because of his family connections, then decide justice? Think about it.
Kenny Shepherd
Claypool
Flat Earth Society
Editor, Times-Union:For a long time I felt like Eric Taylor. I thought my group wasn't represented in Congress. I am a charter member of the Flat Earth Society. Mr. Taylor is sure there is no god and I am just as sure that there is no round earth.
I have been reading a novel off and on and in it there is a statement: "He who says there is no God is a fool." But the most important statement in this book said: "Men presuming themselves to be wise have become fools." Now, doesn't that take in a lot of Congress? I think we are both well represented there.
I think if this book would have called the Ten Commandments the "Ten Recommendations" the ACLU wouldn't have objected so much. I served in Europe with the Third Army and I know what commandments are; there ain't much room to wiggle.
Now, some say we are wasting time and money in organizations fighting things we know don't exist - hmmm! food for thought!
Occasionally people try to show us facts to prove us wrong, but we must stick to our beliefs. One of Indiana's legislators a while back said he would never allow himself to be confused with facts - my hero!
I will say one thing - the atheists and the ACLU are taken very seriously in court, where the Flat Earth Society is not. You have successfully chased God out of the schools, along with the Ten Commandments. A possible positive effect from this has been relieving overcrowded classrooms. With the rattle of gunfire around schools, many are now going to home schooling.
We noted your success and decided it was high time for us to file a suite in federal court to have the round world globes removed from all classrooms. This misleads students to believe the world is round. Instead of getting your respect in court, our representatives were given a breathalyzer test and they and the lawsuit were physically thrown out of court - very humiliating!
Our Flat Earth Society is firmly convinced that these people listed in missing persons columns with their pictures plastered around here and there merely traveled too far east or west and simply went over the edge.
If in a very unlikely case we are proven wrong, we will probably be branded heretics and our Society will fall harmlessly into the pages of history, such as the Bull Moose Party, the Hapsburgs and Hoherryollerns.
Now, if the atheists (hardly likely) should be wrong, it might have dire ramifications. If one should appear at the judgment seat of Christ, quoting the Constitution and some weird court decisions, it might not influence the judge, and there might not be an appeals process or even a stay of execution. Also, it is extremely unlikely that Bill Clinton will be there to grant a pardon! Again, something to consider.
Now, I abhor people writing letters to the editor and sticking a title in front or after their names; M.D.s and college professors are the worst offenders. They reason this gives them some special knowledge of world affairs.
In this case I must violate my own principles and express my impeccable credentials.
George Plew
Research director of the Land of Oz
Division of the Plain Township Flat Earth Society
Warsaw
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