People surrender too easily their hard-earned freedoms

People surrender too easily their hard-earned freedoms
EDITOR:
It is my belief that in the United States today, we the people are sheepishly foregoing many hard earned freedoms. It seems that our country, of which Lincoln said, "was conceived in liberty" is looking more today like the tyrannical land of big brother in George Orwell's 1984.
An interesting milestone, which today is only a moot point of trivia, is the law passed by the Second Congress requiring all U.S. coinage to bear the inscription of an image of liberty. This was so the American people would be aware of their gift of freedom every time they touched a coin. Today, there is not one single coin in circulation which bears the image of liberty. The last of the coins disappearing just recently. Like the image on the coin, the flame of liberty that moved the hearts of our country's founders has gotten dim.
Of all our precious liberties, the most fundamental is that of religious liberty to which all liberty flows. When we recklessly throw away our religious liberty, the very reason the Pilgrims came to the New World, it is only a matter of time till other freedoms follow, an enlightened eye will see that we are experiencing this course of action as you are reading this.
There are, in fact, many persons in our country that won't tolerate any public religion, especially Christianity. These secularists are out to rid our nation of every vestige of Christianity, such as Federal Judge Jennifer Coffman who recently granted a motion to rid Kentucky schoolhouses of many offensive documents. Of these were: The Mayflower Compact and the first sentence of the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence.
Secularists are hard pressed on expurgating every trace of our country's religious character from our childrens textbook, and even in this newspaper frequent writers are hard at work attempting to veil our history from the reader's mind claiming that documented fact is propaganda. To set the record straight, in 1892 the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous decision, after 10 years of studying mountains of evidence in what is known as "The Trinity Decision," stated that, "all these documents attested to the fact that this is a religious people," and, "this is a Christian nation."
NEIL B. HAGAN
Warren
It looked like abuse to me;for others, it was discipline
EDITOR:
In the past few days I saw a neighbor hit a 3-year-old child with a rod that looked to be made out of metal. Worried that the child might be hurt, because I heard her scream, I called the Youngstown Police Department. After it took the offices 11/2 hours to respond to my call, I was caught off guard by their response to my complaint, which was to say nothing was done wrong by the parent of the child.
Even if the child did scream, this was most likely a scream because of the discipline and not the fact that the child was being hit with a rod, as the one police officer told me. Because the child was wearing a winter coat, no marks were on her, so the police said it was just another unfounded complaint.
For you in Youngstown who to use objects to hit your children, just don't raise a welt on your child and YPD will look the other way. And for you who think putting this scene onto video tape will help, I did, and the police still looked the other way..
JAMES D. VAUGHN II
Youngstown
We're in it for the long haul
EDITOR:
President Bush has gotten the United States into a religious war. There will be no end to it. Nor an end to American body bags.
E. TED THORSBY
Girard