Category: Opinion

National security less threatening than trampled rights

By John & Nisha Whitehead How far would you really go to secure the Nation’s borders in the so-called name of national security? Would you give the government limitless amounts of money? Surround the entire country with concrete walls and barbed wire? Erect a high-tech, virtual wall of AI-powered surveillance

Reader’s Voice: No religious values in U.S. Constitution

May 2, 2023Dear editor; In consecutive commentaries published in The Voice, Bela “Bill” Suhayda writes of the Judeo-Christian values that our Nation’s founding fathers, as Christian men, inserted into the U.S. Constitution. Reading Mr. Suhayda’s discourses prompted me to reread my copy of that esteemed document. What I found was

Reader’s Commentary: Conspiracy theory may fit: Fermilab, Shermer book

By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. Thursday, May 11 marks the federal end to pandemic restrictions and related funding programs. If school closures, public library closures, and restricted business were the precursor to online living, then after May 11, there should be no more of this situation. I see Fermilab (in Batavia)

Federal agents continue to be armed; freedom to shrink

By John & Nisha Whitehead What does it say about the state of our freedoms that there are now more pencil-pushing, bureaucratic (non-military) government agents armed with weapons than U.S. Marines? Among the agencies being supplied with night-vision equipment, body armor, hollow-point bullets, shotguns, drones, assault rifles, and LP gas

Reader’s Commentary: On ‘Coddington’s Logorrhea’, Joe Biden, Democrats

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Charles Coddington engaged in a bit of his own Logorrhea in the April 6 issue of The Voice after accusing Republicans of what he is guilty of doing…which is in a word… “logorrhea.” He prattled on about things he disagreed with, giving us his opinions on

U.S. government continues existence with a credit card

By John & Nisha Whitehead We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The U.S. government is funding its existence with a credit card. The government, and that includes the current administration, is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and “we the taxpayers”

Reader’s Voice: A sense of outrage on Mr. Trump

April 10, 2023Dear editor; G.O.P. stalwarts made headlines crying, “Unfair treatment under the law!” in response to southern Manhattan’s D.A. Bragg’s announcement to indict the G.O.P.’s puppet-master. Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp fired a well-aimed fusillade at Fox Network’s chief propagandists, Carlson, Hannity, et.al. blasting their supposed outrage: “They weren’t outraged

Reader’s Commentary: Misconceptions of SWAT team tactics: A rebuttal

Misconception of SWAT team tactics: Here is a rebuttal to The Voice articles by columnist John Whitehead, April 28, 2022 and December 8, 2022. Mistakes in policing are never acceptable and SWAT is no exception. SWAT teams are sent to a location/target area when regular street cops can not resolve

Reader’s Commentary: Frothing at the mouth again: Trump derangement crowd

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The Donald Trump derangement crowd is frothing at the mouth again. “Wayne’s world Johnson” has spittle on his nose! Johnson and the Left don’t bother looking at the millions Biden has gotten from China or at Hunter’s criminality or Biden family corruption. The FBI still guards

Deep State reality: Best to avoid master plan

By John & Nisha Whitehead We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly- calculated, carefully-orchestrated, chillingly-cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry. This situation is mind-control in sinister form. With alarming regularity, the Nation is being subjected to