Category: Opinion

Reader’s Voice: Thank you for Lehnertz publicity

December 5, 2022Dear editor; I want to thank you for the front page coverage of Lehnertz Avenue Christmas display in The Voice (in the December 1 edition on its opening). Lehnertz Avenue Christmas display has been a longstanding display of the true meaning of Christmas supported by the residents of...

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Reader’s Voice: Focus: True science, research

December 6, 2022Dear editor; I now read that Charles Coddington is dreaming of publishing his own newspaper. As fulfilling for him as that might be, I can only hope that his newspaper will be more enlightening than his recent contributions to The Voice have been. With his usual lack of...

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Surveillance State making a list and checking it twice

By John & Nisha Whitehead You’d better watch out, you’d better not pout, you’d better not cry, ‘cos I’m telling you why: This Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. You’ll be on this...

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Reader’s Voice: Congress, F.C.C., can be helpful

December 12, 2022Dear editor; Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.) can help the poor by repealing the federal access charge on land line phone bills. In simpler terms: Acccess robbery. Today’s environment, COVID-19, make it far harder on the small business owner who has more than one line. Prior...

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Reader’s Voice: Thank you, Oswego helpers

December 12, 2022Dear editor; Thank you Oswegoland! Nearly 800 Christmas cards for veterans are going to veterans homes in Anna, La Salle, Manteno, Quincy, Hines Blind Center, and to Bickford, Symphony at Tillers, Cedarhurst, Hillside, and Alden Waterford, Jennings Terrace, and Symphony of Orchard Valley in Aurora, Oswego, and Yorkville....

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U.S. Constitution remains in trouble of termination

By John & Nisha Whitehead If there is one point on which there should be no disagreement, it is the following: For anyone to advocate terminating, or suspending, the U.S. Constitution is tantamount to a declaration of war against the founding principles of our representative government and the rule of...

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Public risks: SWAT teams, police use of robots

By John & Nisha Whitehead The purpose of a good government is to protect the lives and liberties of its people. Unfortunately, we have gone so far in the opposite direction from the ideals of a good government that it’s hard to see how this trainwreck can be redeemed. It...

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Reader’s Voice: Troubling: Elevating Oath Keepers’ founder

November 2, 2022Dear editor; This is in response to “First Amendment, Bill of Rights Key to Democracy” by John and Nisha Whitehead in The Voice October 13. The Whiteheads’ commentary is a meandering, somewhat paranoid anti-government diatribe with a paucity of factual reasoning. Most troubling to me is the apparent...

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Thoughts on elections, presidency, list of certain failures

I’m so thankful this Thanksgiving that those nutty midterm elections have passed and turned out fairly well. Now I don’t have to relocate to Canada and get stressed out building an igloo or eating whale blubber. Political commercials, be gone! Surely I jest. They’re all ready popping up. Now that...

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Surveillance society on the increase around the world

By John & Nisha Whitehead The votes are in. No matter who runs for office, no matter who controls the White House, Senate, or the House of Representatives now or in the future, “we the people” already have lost. We have lost because the future of this Nation is being...

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Operation Vigilant Eagle can harass military veterans

By John W. Whitehead The U.S. government is still waging war on U.S. military veterans, especially veterans who exercise their First Amendment right to speak out against government wrongdoing. Consider: We raise our young people on a steady diet of militarism and war, sell them on the idea that defending...

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Reader’s Voice: Correction on Great Lakes count

October 21, 2022Dear editor; In addition to my enjoying the spirited political bantering that often goes on in this fine publication, I appreciate the opportunity to test my recall of a few facts in each week’s Trivia Test. I take pride in being usually able to come up with at...

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Police fear little consequence for senseless killings

By John & Nisha Whitehead Things are falling apart. How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is being loosed upon the Nation. We are witnessing the unraveling of the American dream one injustice at a time. Day...

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Reader’s Voice: Disgusted on hatchet job on police

October 22, 2022Dear editor; What a crock of baloney! I am surprised you published this anti- police hatchet job (John and Nisha Whitehead’s column in the October 20, 2022 edition of The Voice). Police have enough problems keeping the public trust and support. This is totally false crap! I know...

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We must wake up to guard liberty, equal opportunity

By John & Nisha Whitehead “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” — They Live All is not as it seems. There’s the world we see (or...

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Reader’s Voice: Police stereotyping unfortunate

October 20, 2022Dear editor: In their column October 18 in The Voice, “Drivers Must Know Their Rights When Stopped By Police.” John and Nisha Whitehead called this country, “the America police state.” Although they began by saying that they were not “disrespecting…lawful police officers,” they proceeded to characterize our entire...

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Reader’s Voice: Open letter: Vote no on casino

October 19, 2022Dear editor; An open letter to the Aurora City Council, esteemed alderpeople: I write to you today so that your friends, family, and neighbors will read it and perhaps discuss its contents with you. Most of us are probably not tuned in to all the comings and goings...

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Safety first best method in all police encounters

By John & Nisha Whitehead Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one. Especially if you value that person’s life. Particularly if that person is disabled, mentally ill, elderly, autistic, hearing impaired, suffering from dementia, or might have a condition that...

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Ask Grandpa: A firm request from Grandpa’s final wish

Editor’s note: Recently in The Voice, the announcement was made of the death of the conductor of the column, Ask Grandpa, which provided readers with 503 weeks of sage advice, humor, and continuity. Below is the repeat of the October 7, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Drivers must know their rights when stopped by police

By John & Nisha Whitehead “You know, when police start becoming their own executioners, where’s it gonna end? Pretty soon, you’ll start executing people for jaywalking, and executing people for traffic violations.”—“Dirty Harry” Callahan, Magnum Force When I say that warrior cops, hyped up on their own authority and the...

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