August 20, 2018
Dear editor;
John Whitehead wrote truth-based on facts in his column in the August 16 issue of The Voice by exposing how and why free speech is no longer free. Personal opinion: The fault lies with voters, non-voters, and politicians’ sins of omission.
How many of the voters attend open campaign forums, or call the candidates to ask questions beyond what their brochures state? Once at a Red Hat meeting, I was seated at a table with well-educated senior women who were retired. Discussing politics I asked if they voted for Linda Chapa LaVia for State representative. Yes. They were all Democrats. Then I asked what she had done to earn their votes. Silence. I repeated my question. More silence. Finally one spoke. “Well, I heard her speak and she seem like a very nice person.” Maybe we should repeal women’s voting rights!
At least these women voted. What about the majority who do not vote? They just complain about various issues.
The State is in debt, over-taxed, over-regulated, and too big. Government is the largest employer in the State. We the voters made it into a Blue State. We did it to ourselves. What shall we cut? How about eliminating Chicago?
And then there are the candidates who never really campaign beyond the politically-correct issues. In one of my three-minute speeches at the Aurora City Council, I asked mayor Richard Irvin if he was going to run on the Blue State platform he has helped to install. No longer a Christian culture, we have embraced abortion, homosexuality, gambling, and maybe as I suggested to the Council, why not legalize prostitution. Then tax it.
The voting public has a right to be told about this major change in Aurora. All the directors that I have spoken with from the Park District, the Aurora Library, the police chief, have surrendered, or bought into these moral changes. The public has a right to be informed and vote accordingly. I have not spoken to the Waubonsee College Board yet, but I expect their stand will be united with the other bodies of leadership here. Waubonsee lost the homosexual discriminatory law suit against the college. Citizens have a right to “Freedom of Speech” on the campus.
All wars and revolutions are rooted in personal sins. I modernized that by saying, but if the people of the world all heeded the 10 Commandments, I think we could attain peace and justice for mankind. Our whole world is on fire, and I fear to think how God will reform it.
Joan Solms
Aurora
