ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, March 5, 1996 TAG: 9603050025
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: LETTERS
WATCHING Republicans line up against populist Pat Buchanan is sickening. Not wanting to hear his patriotic, pro-middle-class message, they reinforce the notion that the GOP is the party of the rich, the status quo, the New World Order elitists.
America as we know it won't survive four more years of Clinton or his poor counterfeit, Bob Dole. Both are members of the one-world-government gang. Both favored $50 billion for Mexico to bail out Wall Street while we drown in a $5 trillion debt. They favored the North American Free Trade Agreement and GATT, so all Americans soon will be working at McDonald's.
Soon, you won't recognize America:
U.N. troops will patrol the streets. Clinton has already signed over co-control of U.S. armed forces to the United Nations.
Janet (fiddled while Waco burned) Nero will have her Ninja-Nazi BATF (Building A Totalitarian Future) troops bursting into every American home that has allegedly right-wing reading material like the Bible.
Your children will be taught not to listen to parents, and to memorize state-declared classics like ``Daddy Has a Roommate.'' Children will pledge allegiance to the U.N. flag, and be required to take homosexual sex education.
Far-fetched? Look back 30 years, and see how America has morally and financially circled down the New World Order commode. The world will be a global plantation with whites, Asian-Americans and, for the second time, blacks as slaves, overseen by U.N. troops and their BATF-type counterparts.
Yes, Buchanan is freedom's last hope!
DONALD R. DOYLE
VINTON
Community doesn't accept liberal views
IN A FEB. 18 column (``If you disagree, you must be different and deviant''), editorial page editor Alan Sorensen critiqued an anonymous letter to the editor he had received. I thought letters had to be signed to be seriously considered. Maybe the letter writer struck a nerve when he suggested that Sorensen might be homosexual.
However, Sorensen's column wasn't a total waste of newsprint. There was one sentence that summed up this newspaper's lack of credibility in the community. In defending the newspaper's stand against the removal of a ``Diversity Enriches'' billboard, Sorensen stated: ``I believe our community is better, more tolerant, than these events would suggest.''
Therein, I believe, lies this newspaper's identity crisis: It doesn't attempt to reflect the social and fiscal conservative views of the vast majority of its readers, but instead attempts to force the liberal convictions of editorial writers down our collective throats.
Whether the topic is tolerating homosexuals, the extent to which government should encroach upon its citizens or endorsements of candidates for public office, we can always depend on The Roanoke Times to take the most liberal stand possible.
DANIEL J. McGRATH
ROANOKE
Marching together in Roanoke
LET'S HAVE a 2,000-man march someday soon - 1,000 white men and 1,000 black men marching together. Let's show the rest of the world that Roanoke is indeed a Christian community, and that we believe the fruits of Christianity include love for our fellow man - regardless of race, creed or color. I'll even help organize it.
DONALD R. HILL
ROANOKE
It's not a case of us-vs.-them
IN RESPONSE to Cynthia Vaught's Feb. 15 letter to the editor (``Zip-code elitism in the county'') regarding Southwest County's overcrowded schools:
Overcrowding is a fact. The bond issue can resolve this. I would hope the county would show some unity in support of this issue. The time will come when North County may need Southwest County's support.
Vaught mentions the lovely Penn Forest Park as evidence of favoritism. Most of that park was built and financed by volunteers, not the county. In Southwest County, we take pride in our ability to pull together and work to get things done. We don't ask for help very often.
Let's not make this an us-vs.-them issue. This is about showing vision for the future of our county and our children.
CAROLYN NELSON
ROANOKE
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