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Show Volume XXIV Issue XXII The Ogden Valley news Page 3 January 15, 2018 Letters to the Editor Response to Commentary Disingenuous: Rude to personally attack others with differing views This letter is in response to the Letter to the Editor in the January 1 (2018) issue of The Ogden Valley news titled “The Rest of the Story” by J.H. Thompson of Ogden. That letter was in response to a letter written by Dr. Crockett about the U.S. Constitution. J. Thompson, I am also curious about where a person went to college, or if you even went to college. You don’t seem to know that someone who has earned a PhD. has earned the title of Dr. The “D” in PhD. stands for doctorate. Any university student would learn this in a short time! You repeatedly refer to him as Mr. Crockett, although you start your letter with the phrase, “No offense intended.” It is obvious that an offense is exactly what you intended! We know that you know that he is a Dr. from later in your letter where you refer to him as “the good doctor,” so it is obvious that you are being deliberately rude. Throughout your letter, your use of the words “dumb,” “ridiculous,” “amateur” and “disingenuous” to attack Dr. Crockett’s writing also is meant to be offensive. Your letter is nothing more than an attack on Dr. Crockett and a platform to voice your ideas and opinions that differ from someone else’s, and, also, to display your uncanny ability to read the minds of the Founding Fathers. We are not impressed. J. H. Thompson, you seem to be the one who is disingenuous! D. Mac Oosting, Ogden, Utah Utah Bull Moose Party Candidate: COL Michael “Mike” Seguin In the next election for U.S. Senator for Utah, neither the Democrats or Romney are the answer. The answer is the “Utah Bull Moose Party.” Romney’s not the man for lots of reasons. Here are three: 1. Romney would necessarily have to support the values of a party that that is broken and damaging America’s power globally. By association, he would be part of the problem— not the solution. If he had any integrity, he would not run under the Republican flag; he would run as an independent—as the Utah Bull Moose Party is. 2. Romney represents what’s wrong with the current political atmosphere. Biden was with Romney in Park City in June endorsing Romney to run... what?!?! Are the Democrats and Republicans all horses of the same color? Romney represents a “good old boys’ club” that has only driven America deeper into debt and offers no new solutions to make us more competitive except for bankrupt and tired trickle-down economic policies. For Pete’s sake, his party campaigned on repeal of Obamacare and when the GOP finally won, they didn’t even have viable alternative legislation. What a joke the Republicans have become. What was Romney doing while all this was going down? Nothing! They need a reset. The Utah Bull Moose Party is Independent and offering Republicans a new leader who can clean the party up, or for those who have become unhappy with a party that’s offered up poor leadership options, an alternative that represents Utah’s, not Massachusetts’ or Michigan’s values. 3. Romney is bored and looking for something to do. We have serious problems in this country and we need someone in there who will fight to do the right thing for America. Romney has not taken positions on anything of substance, has not written substantially on current issues, and has taken no action to heal a broken party. We don’t need a Senator who is simply bored running for Congress, who only wants to yuck it up on the tax payer’s dime in D.C. and play public figure. Romney is what’s wrong with the current crop of candidates: Of the Elite, By the Elite, For the Elite. The Utah Bull Moose Party stands for doing the right thing: Of the people, By the People, For the People of the United States. I am running as a real-deal candidate... a grassroots, local Utah businessman who employs local youths, who already has hundreds of signed supporters in Utah—a credible candidate who’s also a U.S. Army Colonel, former State Department diplomat, and a recent graduate of the Army War College. What do you say... come down to The Mad Moose Cafe in Eden and meet a real-deal, grassroots candidate who knows how to work his butt off every day! Elect Mike Seguin in 2018 for the Utah U.S. Senate Mike Sequin, Eden www.utahbullmooseparty.com We’re Back from our Winter Break Come have Dinner With Us! Skiers Welcome Hours Tuesday-Saturday: 5:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Sunday Brunch: (all you can eat) 10:00am-2:00pm Sunday Dinner: 3:00pm-8:00pm 508 Ogden Canyon www.grayclifflodge.com 801-392-6775 Mon.– Thurs. 4:00 pm to 9:00pm Fri.-Sat. 11:00am to 10:00pm Open 7 Days Sunday 11:00am to 9:00pm NEW HOURS: Accommodates 50-60 guests Dining room available for parties & family gatherings. The Rest of the Story: “It is the responsibility of every American to be informed” No offense taken, Mr. JH Thompson, but here is “The Rest of the Story.” I too wish you would have sat in on my classes on American History and the Constitution; perhaps you would have learned something. No, my Ph.D. is not in American History, but I do have degrees in American History/Constitutional Studies. I am not new at this “Constitutional Thing.” Yes, let’s start with original intent. You may think it is ridiculous to try and compare the original intent of what the Founding Fathers did in 18th Century United States to how we operate now. But the Founders knew all too well the nature of man. They knew that they had to be bound down by the chains of the Constitution because the nature of man is that as soon nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion over their fellowman. They knew that power corrupts and wanted a system of government that did not place too much power in the hands of too few and the powers the government has were granted by We The People. So, since the Constitution has limited and specifically enumerated powers granted by We The People, you think it is moot and, “. . . really a dumb premise” to think We The People should know the Constitution? Now, that is truly a “dumb” premise. You then, too, must think that not knowing the Ten Commandments and when they are being violated is a “dumb” premise? How about not knowing the traffic laws, civil rights, property rights, and all other laws we live by? Is it “dumb” to know these laws and when they are being violated? What nonsense! Since the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, it behooves all of us to know it, study it, understand it and thereby know when it is being violated so we can hold our lawmakers accountable. Thomas Jefferson said, “If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of Civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.” When Jefferson made this statement, he was speaking of our ignorance of the Constitution. Founder John Jay, said, “Every member of the state ought diligently to read and to study the Constitution of this country…by knowing their rights, they will sooner perceive when they are violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them.” Jefferson added, “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” So, Mr. JH Thompson, you may wish to remain ignorant and uniformed and leave it all up to those who make the laws, but you will be the worse off for it; you cannot remain ignorant and free at the same time Mr. JH Thompson, you, truly, do not understand the Constitution or the intent of its founders. “The Federalist Papers” will tell you their intent…. Read it, then tell me it is a “dumb” premise. Yes, Congress does make the laws, but they are answerable to us and if they pass laws that violate the Constitution and we do not understand its principles, how do we then hold them accountable? And you are completely and utterly incorrect in thinking the Supreme Court is the final word on the Constitutionality of a law. Congress can reverse any Supreme Court opinion. You also incorrectly state, “Lastly here, amendments can and did take away the States suffrage and did so legally, under the proper procedures, and constitutionally.” A State’s suffrage may not be taken without its consent, and not all states gave their consent during the process. The idea being perpetrated at the time was, as you say, that the 17th Amendment was promoted and eventually passed because “they” did not trust the masses. However, you incorrectly stated that “we” wanted to become more democratic, inclusive, and representative. This nation is a Constitutional Republic, and being democratic does not fit with republicanism. This or any nation cannot be more democratic and at the same time be more representative; that’s an oxymoron. You ask that I tell you which part of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution does not grant Congress the power to spend money on welfare. . . the entire Article and Section. I cannot prove a negative, so how about I ask you to tell me which part does grant this power? Which one? Any harebrained politician or lawyer might tell us that the Constitution’s General Welfare clause authorizes expenditures for welfare as we understand it today. But here’s what Founders James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, had to say about this. “With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” Later, Madison added, “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.” And then LETTER cont. on page 7 |
