LETTERS 05/09/08

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Raghvendra Singh

Warrensburg, Mo.

Two simple questions for Eddie L. Clay (5/3, Letters, “Grow up, Democrats”).

One: have you ever considered that we are just plain scared of Obama?

Two: with Hillary Clinton, she at least tells me what she has in mind, and I honestly believe that if Kansas would have had a primary instead of that stupid caucus, Hillary would have won Kansas.

With Obama, it’s “Are you all fired up?” and “Ready to go?” Give me a break.

Paul R. Koontz Sr.

Spring Hill

Your right to a sawed-off gun

It is always encouraging to see that the Kansas government has its finger on the pulse of improving our way of life here at home. This is in reference to the Legislature’s recent passage of a bill legalizing the possession of machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, silencers and other fully automatic weapons.

Given the string of recent mall and school shootings, I find this bill to be entirely topical and appropriate. Who cares, really, about frivolous issues such as poverty, growing unemployment, poor public education, racial divides and militaristic foreign policies?

My constitutional rights to saw off a shotgun or hunt squirrels with a silenced automatic weapon have been violated for far too long. I only hope that one day our government will be sensible enough to legalize the private possession of nukes and germ warfare.

If you are as tickled pink about this bill as I am, I hope you take the time to write one of your local representatives to let them know what a fantastic job they are doing.

Plato wrote: “The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

Bo McCall

Kansas City

Ticket scalping in Missouri

Last year the Missouri General Assembly approved and Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill making ticket scalping legal in Missouri.

I believe that ticket scalping squeezes regular folks — the taxpayers who support the building of these stadiums — right out of the ability to see sporting events and concerts.

As long as we have taxpayer-supported venues, we must protect the rights of the taxpayer to have access to the tickets at face value. What happened in Kansas City at the Hannah Montana and Elton John concerts cannot be repeated.

If the General Assembly thought that the ticket-scalping bill was a good bill, it should have passed it on its own during regular session in plain sight, not during special session as part of a spending bill.

The people of Missouri and the entire nation are tired of earmarks and tired of high prices. Let’s keep tickets at reasonable prices in the hands of families, not in the hands of ticket scalpers and ticket brokers.

Please call your representatives in Jefferson City and tell them we don’t want ticket scalpers in Missouri.

Ward Dickmann

Raytown

Judges and politics

Attorney Greg Musil’s column (5/1, Opinion, “In selecting our judges, we should keep politics out”) stated that politics are not involved with our current system of selecting judges.

The problem I have is the seven attorneys on the nominating committee. Attorneys, as a group, are Democrats and very liberal.

So what’s not political about having half of the committee made up of liberal attorneys who want to influence our court system?

Tim Bower

Overland Park

Rebate not so stimulating

A senior retired couple can still end up on the short end of the stick.

Uncle Sam cuts the couple, who have a combined income of less than $75,000, a check for $1,200. That’s good.

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