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Struck A Nerve

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Editor, Times-Union:

Apparently, I have struck a nerve into the Collins. First of all, I have to address the Collins that I was responding to someone else's short-sighted logic about Washington and Lincoln not existing because no one alive has seen them. It is apparent that the Collins reads only certain parts of what I have written because she would have known that I have told her that her First Amendment rights are hers and that no one can take them away. She has just chosen to not read that. The Collins is free to express herself freely - just like I have the right to refute everything she says.

She claims that my yelling at a 10-year-old for being in my yard even traveling through is paranoia. Let me be frank - I do not want people in my yard. Just because they live near me, does not give them the right to traipse through my yard, same for trespassing. I do not believe in the adage of "What's yours is yours, and what's mine is also yours."

You want to know what questions I want you to answer? You claim that you are against union violence against Tea Party Members; do you condemn all the union actions against the Tea Party? Since you avoid Fox News, try this:

http://mainstreetradical.com/2011/02/27/mainstream-media-wont-report-union-violence/

You also claim you and President Obama are not Progressives - yet you want the Government to give you money (assuming you are still unemployed). That is a Progressive cornerstone, the transference of wealth from people who have to people who have none. President Obama is giving taxpayer money, unions, the poor, corporations. Do you believe in personal responsibility Collins? Or does the Government have to tell us what to do? Do you want companies to actually invest in America or be punished with forced union membership and send good jobs overseas? Who oversees our Military, the President, or the United Nations? President Obama has sided with the UN and NATO, two organizations that the United States should not be involved in because it gives away our sovereignty which is guaranteed under the Constitution. Progressives do not care about the National Debt - look at George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Need I go on?

As for not understanding my cricket reference-I expected the Collins to realize that she might be wrong with her logic, yet I am sadly mistaken. But if you want to understand my point - just announce a public speaking engagement and see how many people show up. Your words - just like mine, are just going to fade away; yet one course of action will remain. I have chosen freedom and personal responsibility; while you have chosen for order and government control. Lastly Collins, I know Santa is real, I see him every Christmas in the mall. I know the Easter Bunny is real because I have seen him on Television - he endorses Cadbury Cream Eggs.

Gary Eppenbaugh

Warsaw, via e-mail