To the editor: Addressing the FCR edition of Letters to The Editor on Friday, July 29, 2022, regarding the letter on “Support Assault Weapons Ban.” That letter is probably one of the most ridiculous letters I’ve read in a while.

To the editor: I believe that Editor Jeff Wick is doing his best to help local gardeners. He is helping gardeners use recycled editions of the Fayette County Record as mulch. To be sure, the July 29th edition of “Letters to the Editor”was full of manure. Saul Alinsky, an American communist organizer, wrote “How to Create a Socialist State -Twelve Rules for Radicals.” The rules were simplistic tactics designed to be used by people with low intelligence. The tactics did not require any knowledge of facts or the ability to process thought. Instead, they relied upon crude intimidationand bullying. For example, Alinsky’s Rule #5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” All one has to do, is write a letter to the local newspaper and label all “Trump Republicans” as white nationalist, racists, and gun toting freedom haters. One does not need facts. It is not necessary to have met with, and to have a discussion with the “Trump Republicans.” It is enough to just ridicule them all as ignorant and deplorable people. National media pundits are very adept at this propaganda. After all, there is no place for honest debate in a communistsociety. And then there is the letter that supports the communist style kangaroo court in Congress. The Jan. 6 “bi-partisan” committee investigation is anything but bi-partisan. The minority party members selected to participate in the committee were rejected by House Speaker Pelosi. Instead, Pelosi appointed two biased minority party members to assist the majority party in a one sided persecution, nota prosecution. There is no representation for the defense, and there is no cross examination of witnesses. Unsubstantiated hearsay testimony is allowed, anonymous testimony is allowed, and evidence is edited and censored. Who authorized the suspension of the Bill of Rights? For those that are accused of violating the law on that day in question, let them be charged by probable cause and tried by their peers with due process. Unbelievably, some have been arrested, denied bail, and jailed under cruel conditions in violation of the eighth amendment. Watch the movie “Capitol Punishment” produced by Nick Searcy.

The House Committee charged with investigating the January 6th attack has completed eight public hearings to uncover the truth and demand accountability. And more hearingsare planned for the Fall. We’ve learned that Republican Richard Donoghue, who served as acting United States deputy attorney general, said former President Trump pressured officials to declare that there was voter fraud in the election, Trump fought in his vehicle with a secret service agent to go the Capitol, and that Trump wanted to walk to the Capitol with the rioters as well. We’ve heard the public testimony of former Republican White House Counsel Pat Cipollone that all White House staff strongly urged Trump to end the ongoing violent insurrection, and that only Trump wanted the violenceto continue. We’ve heard from voices of Republican elected officials, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Arizona Assembly Speaker Republican Rusty Bowers who withstood pressure from Trump and his allies to lie about the outcome of the election, from a poll worker whose life has been altered forever by the conspiracy that Trump and his MAGA allies told about dedicated election workers; and learned of Vice President Pence’s stance against Trump and his allies pressure on him to participate in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the election. What we have learned comes also from the Lost, Not Stolen report by eight prominent Republicans, a report that investigated and documented the fictions about voter fraud in the 2020 election. Read the report athttps://lostnotstolen.org/.

To The Editor: We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. – Abraham Lincoln An attempt was made on January 6, 2021 to subvert our Constitution and the peaceful transfer of power. Surprisingly, in letters to the editor, numerous citizens in our community remain supportive of the dreadful behavior of our past presidentand his lieutenants. Many state and federal courts adjudicated the various cynical attempts at altering election results, and in all cases the elections were upheld. Thirteen federal cases saw votes by 12 Trump appointed judges, and none of them found merit in the Big Lie. Election officials, whether Democrat or Republican, in all states confirmed theintegrity of the election. One of the first “supporting lies” for the Big Lie was the contention that more votes were cast than registered voters. Quite an easy assertion to check. If unwilling to do the addition, the Census Bureau does it for you – an easy “Google” to find the numbers. Plus, only 66.2% of citizens of voting age went to the polls. As a refresher, President Biden won by over 7 million popular votes, 51.6% of the totalto 46.8% for the Big Liar. The latest “supporting lie” of the Big Lie is Dinesh D’Souza’s leveraging of gullibility in order to harvest gold and silver – laughing all the way to the bank. Irresistible for the gullible given that all prior lies are discredited.

To The Editor: It seems that aside from having a very poor understanding of the 2nd Amendment of our Federal Constitutional Bill of Rights, Mr. Arnold Romberg has adopted the tactic of the many Marxist/ Leninists in the Biden Adminis-tration- simply re-defining words of anything they don’t like hoping to change their meaning. (As an example, price inflation no longer exists in their world because last week they decided to change its definition. The inflationary deficit spending bill currently being debated in Congress is named the “Inflation Reduction Bill of 2022” in an attempt to fool the voters. Likewise, Mr. Romberg along with the Marxists/Leninists in Congress want to change the 2nd Amendment to something more to their liking and effectively disarm the citizens of this country rendering them defenseless against those both foreign and domestic thatwish to do us harm. The 2nd Amendment is what defends our rights in our Constitution. It is not about hunting, or tearing up targets, or social media and drug fueled school shootings. It has always been about defending our lives and liberty and it was written clearly and explicitly that it must not be infringed. Thatwas most recently reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in The District of Columbia vs Heller. Sadly Mr. Romberg wants to infringe it out of existence. I would hope and pray that this is not acceptable to vast majority of the residents of Fayette County.

To The Editor: Indeed, H.R. 1808 has made it out of the Judiciary Committee and could be brought to the floor for a House vote soon. As someone in the firearms industry, as a father, as a husband and as a lawabiding citizen, I ask for your support of all our God-given rights and the Second Amendment inparticular. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, there are now more modern sporting rifles in circulation than Ford F-Series trucks on the road; 24,446,000 MSRs to be precise. “This is a truly significant figure that demonstrates — again — the popularity of this commonly owned style of rifle,” said NSSF President and CEO Joe Bartozzi.

To The Editor: Last month in Indiana, a crazy man armed with two semiautomatic rifles and a semi-automatic handgun went into a mall and opened fire, indiscriminately murdering three innocent people and wounding two others in adespicable act of evil. Fifteen seconds after the shooting began, a 22-year-old citizen hero shopping nearby with his girlfriend, armed with a semiautomatic handgun, returned fire and incredibly landed eight of ten rounds in seconds from 40 yards. The miraculous act of heroism saved countless lives that day.

To The Editor: It is unconscionable that any political party or subgroup of a political party, major or minor, would have as a guest speaker an individual who participated in the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol building. What was attacked that day was one of the most important principles of our representative republic, the peaceful transfer of power. To have as a speaker someone who attempts to minimize and deflect the impact he himselfand others had that day, betrays the very ideals of our nation.

To The Editor: Dear Governor Gregg Abbott, Lt. Gov Dan Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton, Senator Lois Kolkhorst, RepresentativePhil Stephenson; Right wing conservatives have gone too far in the State of Texas. They have severely restricted access to reproductive healthcare for all women inTexas. By doing so, they have interfered with the bodily autonomy of approximately 14.41 million women, or 50.1% of the population of Texas. They have made living Texas women into 2nd class citizens with less bodily autonomythan is accorded a corpse. The State of Texas has no right to interfere with the bodily autonomy and reproductive choices of women or anyone else in Texas. These are choices that only individual Texans can make. Our Proposed amendment tothe Texas Constitution is: “The State of Texas shall make no laws that in any way restrict or interfere with or cause anundue hardship on any person’s ability to access and receive the reproductive medical care best suited to that person’s individual circumstances and needs.”

Drought. I have lived long enough to remember the drought of the 1950s.