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Opinion
A4 | Thursday, September 13, 2018
In My Opinion
DMS-13 are not kids on bikes
emocrat politicians, including and we can’t California’s very own Nancy because we don’t Pelosi, and various left-wing know who they are!
Fred Hall - Publisher Rick Curiel - Editor
publishers have described MS-13 as— and I paraphrase here—little children who ride their little bikes to school and hang out in the park.
Perhaps the time has come for
San Francisco Nancy and her ilk to come to the realization that this is an organized group of thugs whose motto is rape, control and kill-- and their preferred method is with machetes and knives to make the process as painful as possible. “Little kids riding bikes?” Really? Yes, Pelosi uttered a line similarly inane to that in response to The President referring to the gang, correctly we believe, as animals. It seems Democrats’ real war is with Trump and not issues which directly impact the safety and security of the American people!
Littleexplanationofexactlywho these “undocumented immigrants” are should be necessary after the recent arrest of a MS-13 gang member for the rape of an 11-year old girl in New York City or the sweep of Mendota which netted 25 arrests. Mendota is a really small town where there was an attempt by the gang to completely over-run that tiny police force.
Fresno County has been linked to a central MS-13 location emanating fromtheLosAngelesarea. That’s represents a huge expansion of a cancerous group right into the very heart of rural California. I may have missed it in the newspaper stories but I don’t recall that any of them were arrested on their little bicycles anywhere near a park, playground or as they were on their way to school.
The time has come for all of America to stop opposing everything this President says simply as resistance
to the election of Donald Trump! Granted there are many things he
says and does which can be irritating to those with an opposing political philosophy and, yet, he has enjoyed a substantial record of accomplishments when one examines his campaign promises and the current position of thiscountryeconomically. People need to learn to discern the difference between the two to regain their credibility. That includes the media as well.
Perhaps if we reported as well on
his accomplishments as we attempt
to tarnish the man and his Presidency we could regain the trust of millions of Americans. A little of that approach would go a long way toward debunking the narrative that the press is the enemy of the American people.
People of the press, you are doing everything possible to prove the President correct.
Since we’ve covered the gamut of stupid statements, from Democrat political iterations to failure of the press to present both sides, perhaps this would be a good point to pause and make mention of the recent New York Times “anonymous” op-ed piece. The veracity of anyone who
is unwilling to accept responsibility for their words must always be questioned. If the conviction is not available on a personal basis anyone who writes or utters anything they feel of portent is to be deeply questioned—
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respectfully refuse to accept this person’s opinion on any
level and question whether or not it was even penned
by a “high placed”
aide. The New York Times previously represented the rants
of a intern similarly.
I’m frankly stunned by the changes
in ethics and approaches to reporting of the news since I first entered
this business way back in the early 1960’s! There was a time when any story required two or three identified sources. Never was “anonymous” acceptable, especially with an editorial where there could be no rebuttal or even vetting of the credentials of the writer. TheoncevauntedNewYork Times, in my opinion, has sunk to a new low with the real loser in this race to the bottom being its readers and the American people. Outside of the editorial page, the political leanings
of any newspaper should not be identifiable. Even on that op-ed page certain standards must apply or your entire offering isn’t worth the paper on which it is written.
We believe any news organization operatinginsuchanagenda-driven method is doing a huge disservice to their viewers and readers. They might be sating the appetite of a certain
base constituency, but a hard wedge
is being driven to divide the people of this country. Perhaps that is one of the reasons behind the escalating failure rate with traditional media companies.
Meanwhile, social media has begun to “shoot themselves in the foot” with their censorship and overreaching in an attempt to control the narrative.
So called social media is actually anti-social when little trolls can rant and rave in complete anonymity. Come up out of your parents basement and let us know who you are. We’re experiencing a coarsening of what was once at least civil discourse. It would seemthatthe800poundgorillawould be those in our newly invented world of mass communications.
We believe they—the resisters who form and control public opinion--will force governmental intervention to control their rampant biases. These are the same people who have recently flaunted the First Amendment. When anything gets as out of control as the nerds and politically correct executives who are the product of the last four decades of liberal education in our public institutions.
Realizing that this column has taken a long, tortuous voyage from questioning inane statements of politicians to the degradation of our society currently being perpetrated by what used to be the “main stream media” to the trolls of the internet, I stand by my position. Washington and America, we have a problem that desperately must be fixed.
But, as always, that’s only one man’s opinion.
Fred Hall is publisher of the Dinuba Sentinel.
John McCain; Great American Hero, mS i s s e d o p p o r t u n i t y f o r t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s
horty after the death of John McCain, I watched of our time – McCain. And on the
a PBS documentary on the late United States other side we had a guy by the name Senator. I watched as the story of the Vietnam of Barak Hussein Obama. And I say
War hero was told, from his upbringing to his journey into politics.
I was amazed.
Here was a man who truly fit the bill in terms of heroics. While shot down over the fields of Vietnam, the young pilot found himself a prisoner of war, where he was brutally beaten and tortured.
Yet, after over a year in captivity, McCain declined an early release for the sake of his fellow prisoners of war. He denied his freedom for the sake of others. He remained a prisoner of war for an additional four years.
When he was finally released, he returned to the United States of America steal recovering from injuries inflicted by his captors. Physically, he would never fully recover. McCain, however, returned as a true American hero.
He was quoted as saying, “I fell in love with my country as a prisoner in another.”
McCain was the son of a US Navy Admiral, who was also the son of a US Navy Admiral. DNA testing would later reveal that he was also related to a John Washington, the great-great-grandfather of President George Washington.
Fast forward to the year 2008. It was an election year and the United States found itself in yet another war the public had grown unsure of. Yet, unlike the Vietnam War, this was in direct retaliation to an attack on US Soil.
The country was still recovering from the attacks of 9/11, when Muslim extremists hijacked four jet liners
and used them to kill thousands of people. In the years that followed, the nation pulled together and did its best to move forward. Yet, we still found ourself at war with a new enemy – the Taliban, Al Qaida. Call it what you want, we were at war with Muslim extremists.
So at a time in our nation’s history when we needed a hero, a war hero, a leader who could guide us through a trying time, we were given a choice.
On one side we had quite possibly the greatest war hero
it this way because, prior to the 2008 election, not many knew much of this newcomer. He had been a Senator for all of two years prior to his run for president. Before that, he was a community activist in Chicago. Aside from that, all the general public had was a face and a name.
Yet in spite of the overwhelming differences in both experience and valor, this nation
chose the lesser known. Politics aside, it still boggles my mind that in a time when our nation was at war with the Muslim extreme, we chose as our next president a relatively obscure politician with a Muslim name.
Now please don’t take these words out of context.
This is not to say that a man with a Muslim name, nor a Muslim for that sake, is not capable of running this great nation. I am only calling into question the timing of such an election.
One of the things I do to test the validity of certain things, whether tangible or ideological, is I give it the time test. I ask myself how would this have looked 100 year ago? How will this look when future generations look back at it 100 years from now?
The history books will continue to list the presidents of this great nation. In the years to come, will the generations that follow see the name of Barak Hussein Obama as some strange anomaly? Will they wonder why we didn’t chose the Great American Hero of our time when we needed one the most?
Who knows?
But I can’t help wonder where we would be today if it was McCain’s name listed as the 44th president of the United States of America.
Rick Curiel is the editor of the Dinuba Sentinel. He can be reached at editor@thedinubasentinel.com
Rick Curiel
t’s practically unanimous: current jobs. The Nine out of 10 establishment deeper issue is economists agree that the overall lack
America’s solid job growth and the low unemployment rate truly make ours “The Land of Opportunity.”
So why, they wonder aloud, is the State of Labor today so morose? Well, start with all those jobs.
Quantity is on one thing, but quality is what really matters.
As Jesse Jackson has pointed out, even slaves had jobs. While not in slavery, millions of Americans today — from Walmart employees to school teachers — are paid so little that they have to patch together two or three jobs each to eke out a bare-bones living.
In fact, major corporations have made poverty pay central to their profit strategy, with giants like Amazon, McDonald’s, and Walmart issuing such puny paychecks that their workers have to rely on food stamps and other public programs to make ends meet. That’s a corporate subsidy of roughly $150 billion a year taken from us taxpayers.
Miserly pay, however, is only one cause of the stunning fact that more than half of American workers now say they’re looking to leave their
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of respect for workaday people.
After all, workers can see in their daily job experiences
that the Powers That Be — from corporate chieftains to political leaders
— consider employees a cost to be cut, not an asset to advance.
Working stiffs see the continued offshoring of their jobs and deliberate decimation of their rights and union bargaining power. They see leaders of both political parties with their hats in hand for corporate dollars, while rigging the rules to gut everything from overtime pay to health care. And they see the power elite rushing to a robot economy that will leave them and their children out in the cold.
Labor Day is over. Now America needs an all-out labor rebellion.
Jim Hightower, an OtherWords columnist, is a radio commentator, writer, and public speaker. He’s also editor of the populist newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown.
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