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Lincoln Daily News.com
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Lincoln Daily News publishes daily news about the Lincoln/Logan County area on the Internet at www.lincolndailynews.com. (We are not a print publication.) All subscriptions are free!

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The mission of Lincoln Daily News is to tell the stories of Logan County in a contemporaneous manner, with lively writing and a predilection for simple truth fairly told. Lincoln Daily News seeks a relationship with the good people of Logan County that is honest, neighborly and never patronizing. Lincoln Daily News presents news within a full context that contributes to understanding. Lincoln Daily News is more interested in the marketplace of ideas than the competition of personalities. Without shrinking from the bold delivery of unvarnished fact, Lincoln Daily News operates from the premise that God's creatures deserve the presumption of right motive. Lincoln Daily News eschews malice and cynicism; it approaches every person with dignity and every subject with equanimity. In short, Lincoln Daily News informs, stimulates and entertains.

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Letters to the Editor

The Lincoln Daily News publishes letters to the editor as they are received.
 The letters are not edited in content and do not necessarily reflect 
the views of Lincoln Daily News.

Lincoln Daily News requests that writers responding to controversial issues address the issue and refrain from personal attacks. Thank you!


Wake-up call

Thank you, W.R. Rogers, for your letter about the United Nations. So many citizens do not know the harm the United Nations has done. They have plans for our mental health, our land, our children. The United States needs to get out of the U.N.

Wake up, America. We our losing national sovereignty.

Tonya Siltman

Middletown

(posted 4-5-03)

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Letters must include the writer's name, telephone number, mailing address and/or e-mail address (we will not publish address or phone number information). Lincoln Daily News reserves the right to edit letters to reduce their size or to correct obvious errors. Lincoln Daily News reserves the right to reject any letter for any reason. Lincoln Daily News will publish as many acceptable letters as space allows.


The U.N. and national sovereignty

To the editor:

This is in response to the letter concerning the United States membership in the U.N.

One needs to study the political history of the U.N. to fully understand why it was formed. This forum does not afford the space to fully explore those reasons for its formation. Therefore, it is easier to explore a premise for which it was not formed. This, simply stated, is at no time was a nation to give up its sovereignty.

The U.N. has been expanded into the sovereignty of nations under its disguise as being helpful and all-knowing. It is neither one. Those people in the business world known as the trilateral commission would have us all under the dominance of a world government. The constitution of the United States does not allow for this. Our politicians and business people have in a subversive manner entered into agreements with the U.N. as a treaty agreement. This agreement takes away our rights as citizens for a democracy of our people first. It cast us all in one group. Democracy does not exist in the U.N., because all the nations who participate are not democracies.

 

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The U.N. costs us, the taxpayers, more than any other countries in the world. At one time we had more invested than all the other nations combined. I have not seen the figures lately. It probably has not changed much.

In closing there are two points I would make.
First: I urge all citizens to not support any political leader in this country that gives any authority to the U.N. over the citizens of this country. Secondly: I have been sending letters to our political leaders for the United States to get out of the U.N. When the U.N. encroaches on the sovereignty of the United States, it becomes an unconstitutional alliance.

If you have not guessed by now, I totally support the United States in the war on terrorism and the ridding of the world of those people like Saddam Hussein. We had no problem with going to Kosovo, did we.

W.R. Rogers

Elkhart

(posted 4-2-03)


Greetings from sunny Kuwait!

To the editor:

Greetings from sunny Kuwait!  I had the opportunity to look at the LDN site today and saw the postings about our vets from the county.  I just wanted to let you know that I am still in the Army and serving in Kuwait for Op Iraqi Freedom.  I am now the first sergeant (1SG) of HHC 335th Theater Signal Command. Our troops are doing an awesome job, and their commitment to our great nation should command the respect of each citizen regardless of their views on this war.

Chuck Brainard

1SG

(posted 3-29-03)

Click for names of others from Lincoln and Logan County who are serving in the armed forces.


The U.S. should leave the United Nations

To the editor:

Democracy is, theoretically, a system where the people have the power. [Greek] δήμος (demos) = people, κράτος (kratos) = power. If we apply this norm to the United Nations, I would say that the democracy in the U.N. is to respect and follow the majority voice.

With respect to the U.S.-U.K and Iraq war, the majority voice said this war is "inappropriate." The U.S. did not accept the majority voice of the U.N. Security Council even though the U.S. is one of the members of the U.N. This U.S. action made the U.N. meaningless...

I accept a simple fact that the strategy of the U.S. and the other nations did not match at this time. However, we cannot deny another simple fact that the U.S. and U.K. did not respect the democracy of the U.N., and in so destroyed it.

 

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My philosophy is that the U.S. needs to listen to the majority voice of the U.N. regardless of whether it agrees or disagrees as one of the members of the U.N. But the U.S. did not respect the majority voice of the U.N.... The U.S. should leave the U.N. if the U.S. is not happy to accept the U.N.'s democracy.

The U.S. does not know how to accommodate the political strategy and democracy, or does not know how to accomplish her diplomatic goal in terms of democracy.

I would hate to see the U.S. leave the U.N., but I would feel better than if the U.S. remains in the U.N. being selfish. This is the very destiny of the democracy that the U.S. promoted in the human history.

Kenichiro Kira

Lincoln

(posted 3-29-03)

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