LETTERS

Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces


ABOUT THAT SIN ESSAY, MR. LONGOBARDY ...



One thing I would like to mention to the writer ["Freedom," January 4] is this: Maybe people aren't as apt for freedom as you like to think, being that they continue to forget "those principles which comprise the condition, the dream," as you put it.

Because it seems to me that we recognize too many people cannot handle freedom with "responsibility" (to use your word), so we prohibit them from doing injurious things such as smoking inside restaurants.



T. HERNANDEZ





BLAME THE CALIFORNIANS


For that pesky sense of encroaching responsibility for the community

You've hit the nail on the head, so to speak, with your article on how Nevada, and Southern Nevada in particular, has changed over the decades ["Freedom," January 4]. I think a LOT of the problems are because of "immigrants," that is people moving here from other states, mainly California. These "Californicators" have screwed up their state and are now bringing their tofu-farting, tree-hugging, gun-grabbing, health-Nazi bullshit here. They left because their attitude has basically killed that state, yet they're continuing the same crap here.

None of the states bordering California appreciate, or want, these immigrants because of their attitude. The residents of southern Oregon hate them. I and a lot of other Southern Nevadans hate them. Arizona hates them. We've had legal gambling for many decades, and back in the '70s, we decided that we'd add legal brothels to the mix.

Talk about PROGRESSIVE and FREE!

Yet, if that had come up on any state ballots today, the "moralists" would throw hissy fits and file hundreds of lawsuits to have the measure removed from the ballot.

You are 100 percent correct. We are quickly losing the "frontier spirit" that we once had. The Californicators called our less restrictive gun laws "gunsmoke law."

At least I can still shoot a criminal that has broken into my home (as long as he's inside) and not be branded as a criminal and prosecuted.

I weep for the freedoms we Nevadans are losing because of people from other states trying to impose their screwed up ideas of "morality" on us.

I have a suggestion for the californicators: STAY HOME. We Nevadans don't want your screwed up attitudes here.



AARON DANIELS




Regarding Last Week's Letter Disagreeing with Joshua Longobardy's Take on Sinless City


To the Editors,

I respectfully disagree with Mr. Stan Vaughan (and apparently with John Locke), in that the majority do NOT "pass" for the whole. One of the geniuses of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is that it grants to ANY individual the right to petition the government for redress of greivances. For those not entirely alert to the idea of synomyms, this means that the Founding Fathers agreed to the possibility that the majority COULD be wrong and thus even the largest majority MUST NOT have unquestionable authority. This means, for any who have encountered a bad lawyer (whether in real life or on television shows), that ANYONE has standing to sue on any matter.

We have only to look to the Las Vegas City Council's attempt to pass a fake law purporting to have made it an offense to feed the homeless. It can never be unethical, much less illegal to do good to someone. As the council members come up for reelection each of us must decide whether this fake law is egregious enough to remove them.


Thank you,




John Visionquest Popetamer

D'Aura



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