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Show I SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, febrvay 9, 2006 Comments Invest in public Editor: I am so grateful for the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. I have six children who came from average parents par-ents (my husband and I). We both have BS degrees from local Universities - BYU and USU. I am a part-time accountant. ac-countant. Wedon't make a lot of money. In fact, we are suggested sug-gested to be at the federal poverty level. My husband works in a local nanuf actur-ing actur-ing plant on a machine. Our children are in the pub n 01 i 11 i1 11 1 tm nrp, to ma win i mm Editor We must marvel at the campaign cam-paign that a handful of radical New World Order neoconser-vatives neoconser-vatives were able to create around 911. They were able to commit vast resources to a war based on falsified intelligence intelli-gence and set aside in the in the interest of executive power pow-er the essential civil liberties that define America as a nation na-tion and lace the United States several hundred billions of dollars dol-lars deeper in debt. It has been estimated that the Iraqi War will end up costing the American Ameri-can taxpayer two trillion dollars dol-lars before our involvement is over. Compare this to the lack of response to the real threat of massive illegal immigration across our borders. There is an abundance of information concerning the costs to Americans Amer-icans of unwarranted immigration. immi-gration. Taxpayers are footing foot-ing school, medical, crime, Dangers in majority rule Editor: Some brave Utah State Senators Sen-ators are attempting restoration restora-tion of some power to our State Republic through S.B. 156. Originally, the constitution's constitu-tion's framers designed a Constitutional Republic of federated states with bicameral bicam-eral Congress providing carefully care-fully debated checks on the central government's power. When writing the Constitution, Constitu-tion, the States' Representatives Representa-tives conceived the bicameral Congress. The founders understood un-derstood the danger of majority-rule (democracy), so while they provided a House of Representatives for the people peo-ple s house, they also provided provid-ed a United States Senate where the state governments would be represented as a check on central government power and a check on the excesses ex-cesses of the democratic people's peo-ple's house. Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald, Lee Enterprises Inc. 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We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, punctuation, taste and length. Letters are welcome on any topic. 1 schools and in lic school system. All of them excel at math and science. My 10th grader is in 11th grade math and science. My 9th grader is in 11th grade math, 10th grade science and French 2. My 7th grader is in 9th grade math and advanced science. And there is much potential from my younger three. My 5 year old does math that normal kindergarteners don't do. WHY? Because I, as a parent, choose to raise them in the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM with O welfare bills and other for illegal ille-gal aliens. Construction and other workers are losing wages and jobs to the flood or illegal immigrants. American is losing its language and culture cul-ture unity. Mass immigration is creating a Tower of Babel in this land. Americans and their elected representatives fell for a fake threat, while ignoring the real one of massive illegal immigration immi-gration which is overwhelming overwhelm-ing our nation like a tidal wave. Opponents of mass immigration immi-gration have not been able to even use fear of terrorists to establish better control over our borders, Bush was able to commit vast U.S., resources to protect Israel's and IRA's borders, bor-ders, while ignoring our owa Our nation of laws and legal immigrants is under attack toy an evil alliance of Big business, Big Labor, the government of Mexico, liberal radicals like As 13 sovereign-states they intended to keep control of the creature they were creat-ing-the United States government. govern-ment. With two U.S. Senators each, each state was equal to the other states in representation representa-tion in the U.S. Senate. And, by giving State Legislatures power to elect the U.S. Senators, Sena-tors, the state governments held U.S. Senators directly accountable ac-countable to State Legislatures, Legisla-tures, thus the state governments govern-ments held in check the federal feder-al government to prevent, centralized tyranny. Sadly the 17th amendment destroyed de-stroyed the original intent of the Founders. The federal government has grown out of control ever since! Bliss Tew Orem Mapleton Police report Mapleton Police had ' 48 calls last week including 10 for animal realated problems. They stopped a juvenile for a taffic violation and found he was in possesion of a handgun, hand-gun, which was illegal. When asked what he was doing with the gun, the juvenile admitted he was going to use it in a robbery. He was arrested arrest-ed and taken to Slate Canyon Detention. John Bayon, 136 W. 595 Springville's Only Traditional Drug Store and Soda Fountain 489-6041 214 South Main St. your children parental involvement. And that's the problem right there! THOSE THAT ARE NOT INVOLVED can't see how great.the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM is. No matter what we do - we as Karents are the first, FORE-10ST FORE-10ST teachers for our children. chil-dren. We need to be involved. in-volved. We need to help our children succeed. Public school is just a backing - we are the means for our children's chil-dren's future! Dianne Singleton Springville . y winiwiwini O Senator Teddy Kennedy, the likes of the ACLU, and other left-wing extremists out to destroy de-stroy Christian America. If you disagree with them, they call you a racist, xenophobe, and other smears. Poll after poll shows a vast majority of Americans are fed up with illegal ille-gal immigration Americans are engaged in a mighty culture war, a contest pitting godless globalist elites against heartland Americans who love their country and traditions. Will our inert politicians politi-cians ever uphold their oath to the Constitution to protect and secure our national borders? A new history of the fall of Rome reveals how massive immigration aided the demise of the once invincible, powerful power-ful empire. Are we in line? John Paulson Springville Free speech stands on shaty ground Daniel B. Kline One morning this week my satellite radio was tuned to Howard Stern's show as his crew mocked the previous previ-ous evening's "American Idol" contestants. When the topic of conversation changed to one of the staff members' rather graphic phone sex habit, I quickly flipped the channel to ESPN radio where the hosts were breaking down the Super Bowl. It didn't take Congress, President Bush, the Parents Television Council or the Federal Communications Commission to protect me. I simply changed the channel chan-nel when the topic became something I was uncomfortable uncomfort-able listening to. I'm also quite capable of changing the channel on my television in the same situation. Maple, was arrested for an outstanding warrant. There were three auto burglaries bur-glaries in which vehicle windows win-dows were broken and CDs, clothing, a bookbag and other items were taken. Police are asking anyone with any information infor-mation on these burglaries to please call the police station. There was a two car accident acci-dent at 60 N. Main and a car hit a deer at 1400 N and SR 89. DRUG Since 1909 Stop Free Trade of the Americas Editor: Thwarted by rising animosity ani-mosity among the American people toward the supposed benefits of phony free trade agreements, the Bush administration admin-istration has shelved its desire de-sire to ask Congress to approve ap-prove the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Originally planning to submit sub-mit the pact to Congress in January 2005, the administration adminis-tration has resorted to forcing forc-ing implementation of its provisions piece by piece, with or without congressional congression-al approval. The end result of this process-of which the FTAA z?a?x and M and Mexico into a new North American Community. In keeping with the FTAA's original purpose, our leaders are already considering con-sidering proposals that include in-clude completely opening the border with Mexico, supplying sup-plying massive amounts of foreign aid to poorer sections sec-tions of Mexico and educating educat-ing huge numbers of young Mexicans in U.S. schools at American taxpayers' expense. ex-pense. All of these plans-promoted by the internationalist Council on Foreign Relations-must be blocked if our nation is to retain its hard-won hard-won independence. Congress must be alert to this sinister campaign to dilute di-lute and even destroy the independence in-dependence of our nation. Gordon Norman Springville Whether it be explicit content, con-tent, graphic surgeries or I happen to be watching TV with my two-year-old son, my remote control works just fine without any government gov-ernment interference. My ability to make my own choices and my assumption as-sumption that my fellow Americans are capable of the same has not stopped Congress from holding hearings hear-ings about regulating satellite satel-lite radio and cable TV. These services, which consumers con-sumers pay for and thereby choose to bring into their homes, have never been subject sub-ject to any sort of regulation.. regula-tion.. The Constitutional right to free speech has always al-ways been enough to keep the politicians at bay even though most elected officials seem uncomfortable with the concept that there are areas of life that they can't control. Unfortunately, the trumped up hysteria caused by Janet Jackson's breast has been used by many in Congress as a mandate to protect America from whatever what-ever they deem indecent. That incident, however, occurred oc-curred on broadcast television televi-sion and using it as an excuse ex-cuse to regulate pay Services Ser-vices would De like using the existence of Internet porn as an excuse to censor Dis-ney.com. Dis-ney.com. If the public lets the government gov-ernment regulate pay entertainment enter-tainment services like cable television and satellite radio it's a very small step to banned books, censored FACTORY AUTHORIZED DEALER & SERVICE CENTER We offer service and tune-ups on most chainsaws or small engine yard tools! Get yours done today! (ARPENTER OEEDfe 1030 South State, Provo 373-3740 Hours: Hon. - Sat. 8 am to 5 pm , , yL t's DIuWJAL Many problems come with growth Residents of Springville received a letter from our new mayor, Gene Mangum, last week in which he apologized for any information he gave out during the election campaign cam-paign that might have misled the public. We applaud Mayor May-or Mangum for his honesty and forthrightness-some-thing you do not always see in politicians. Was Mayor Mangum misled by information given to him by city leaders during the campaign. We do not know. We do understand the problems that the city is having though. As we traveled up and down the state last week and observed ob-served the amount of growth in most cities, we also realized real-ized that growth is not a problem peculiar to Springville. It is everywhere in our state. And with growth comes the need for more water, more electricity, more sewer capacity, more services such as police, fire, ambulance and library, etc. It doesn't end. . This is a good place to live, and lots of folks want to live here. We applaud former city leaders who have made decisions deci-sions that put our city in a vary favorable credit rating posture. Those leaders have also put in place the master plans and associated fees necessary for new growth so that those moving here pay for the impact they have on our community. It was just recently that the city council voted to raise the impact fees, making them comparable with other cities our size. This makes it so that citizens already living in Springville are not affected by having to pay more for those moving in. As the mayor said in his letter, the city does not have much control over the cost of natural gas and in turn what power bills are for you and me. But they are doing everything every-thing they can to purchase the least expensive power available and to supplement the purchased power with the city's own production of power when it is cost-effective. As we have said before, if any citizen has concerns, they should contact the mayor or one of the city council members. They are all ordinary citizens trying to make extraordinary decisions for us. They welcome your ideas. They are the only ones who have a vote on important issues is-sues in Springville. Thank you Mayor Mangun and thank you city council for all you are doing to make Springville an even better place to live! news and the obliteration of free speech. If the American people allow Congress or the President to decide what media we can purchase in the privacy of our own homes than we have sacrificed sacri-ficed free choice and the right to set our own standards stan-dards for decency. The Federal Communications Communica-tions Commission has always al-ways controlled decency standards for broadcast radio ra-dio and television. They've done this under the guise that those are public pub-lic airwaves and must in some way serve the general populace. That was always dubious logic that bordered on being nothing more than a clever way to tell the public pub-lic it was too dumb to make its own choices. FCC regulation has been inconsistently enforced, poorly explained and heavily heavi-ly politicized. Other than the seven dirty words made famous fa-mous by George Carlin, some of which can actually be used in certain circumstances, circum-stances, there are no clear guidelines. A sentence that might be ignored if Oprah says it may not be okay if it's uttered by an animated character on "Family Guy." This has created a broadcast broad-cast landscape where radio personalities, sitcom characters charac-ters and talk show hosts speak in a manner unlike the way people actually talk. We nave TV policemen who don't swear, bad guys that never say anything worse than "aw shucks" and interviews with rappers that are more beep than speech. . Because of these arbitrary standards and the fact that many Americans are not as easily offended by language, lan-guage, sexually explicit talk, nudity and adult situations, cable television and satellite 0v 24 Years rawh r Title Loans on ATVs, Cars, Motorcycles Jewelry Diamonds Rota Gold S Silver New Wholesale Jewelry Computers Name Brand Tods 444 W. Center Provo 374-8076 HOURS 9am-6pm M-F Sat 9am-3pm radio have become an oasis for free speech. These services ser-vices offer programming for adults and they trust that adults can decide when they are off ended. If I don't like what's on my radio or TV, I simply find something else to watch, or listen to. I don't need the government govern-ment to protect me from my choices in these mediums any more than I need Congress Con-gress to tell me what books to read, what newspapers to subscribe to or what political politi-cal organizations to join. Daniel B. Kline is a freelance free-lance writer based in Connecticut. Con-necticut. 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