Homer Alaska - Letters

Ben Franklin said, "those who would give up their liberties for the promise of safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." I am sure most also have heard, "I may not agree with what you say, but will defend unto death your right to say it." Our country was founded as a republic. A democracy is when 51 percent of the people decide the fate for the other 49 percent, or like when two wolves and a sheep vote on what is for dinner.

Yet I encourage voters to boycott the two-party system and register nonpartisan. Vote the person not the party.

Fear convinces us to surrender a multitude of our constitutional rights and enter the war that is bankrupting our nation stemming from events on Sept. 11, 2001. Now 1,034 architectural engineers are demanding a new investigation of those events. I beg everyone to look at their questions. I'm proud to be one that won't let this issue be, lest it be swept under the rug like Kennedy's assassination.

Many now realize our war is about oil, oil pipelines, controlling that region, defending Israel and the CIA's usual business of drug importation. Alaskans should not even need Middle East oil.

A great upheaval is in the wind. Some changes are painful, but periodically necessary — like sweeping your floor. A multitude of government corruptions and theft of our natural rights are in the works as we move toward corporate globalism. When I say "government," I realize there are some good and well meaning people in government but there are also some real criminals that deserve an informed and concerned public.

How many readers know what "False Flag" means? An agency or government stages an attack to look like another was the perpetrator to give the reason to attack them. It is and has been a common tactic used by governments often in the past, including our own.

Rev. Richard Olson