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LETTERS U.N. Small Arms Treaty is one step to taking away our freedoms To the editor, In yesterday’s paper (June 4), there was an informative letter by George Dengel regarding the U.N. Agenda 21. We’ve been doing a lot of research on the subject and a whole new world is opening up to us. Thanks to Tim Carter and the Lakes Region Tea Party, to Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter for standing firm on the Constitution. Mr. Dengel mentioned the U.N. Small Arms Treaty that has just been signed by 60 countries, and President Obama will be signing it when the translation has been done to his satisfaction. Any international treaty will trump our own Constitution. According to freedomoutpost.com, Mr. Obama may sign the treaty sometime before the end of August — when Congress will not be in town. The Senate has already signed
a resolution to not ratify the treaty, and we must let our senators know we support them. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Obama will sign despite bipartisan resistance in Congress. This is all part of the U.N.’s sustainable development initiative signed by George Bush in 1992, and implemented by Bill Clinton under a Presidential Order, and has been in the works in all planning commissions around the country. The Master Plan calls for governments to take control of all land use and not leave decision making in the hands of private property owners. Look it up on line; this is a fact, their plan, not a conspiracy. The U.N. Small Arms Treaty is only one step to taking away our freedoms. Hal & Peggy Graham Sanbornton
Noisy, well-funded minorities block the radical chance we need To the editor, Good letter by Brenda Baer about the prison/state school property on Parade Road in Laconia on May 15. “Bad investment”, she said. That land could have become a low-maintenance food producer if the principles of permaculture had been used years ago. Now it’s been built on, paved, painted, sprayed, mowed and blown, and polluted. And I agree with George Maloof’s letter on June 3 that Monsanto is evil incarnate — more bad news for
the environment. (And Kelly Ayotte thinks that the IRS is “Big Brother”!) The March/April issue of Pacific Standard Magazine has an article about “astonishing sources of oil and gas all over the world”, but scientists say that two-thirds of it should stay underground to prevent further global warming. Sea level is rising. We need radical change, but noisy, moneyed minorities block progress. Dick Devens Center Sandwich
ANDREA from page 2 landfall hours earlier in Florida’s Big Bend area. Its maximum sustained winds had fallen to 50 mph (80 kph) and it was moving northeast at 15 mph (24 kph). Rains and winds from the storm were forecast to sweep northward along the Southeastern U.S. coast Thursday night and Friday. The storm was expected to lose steam by Saturday as it moves through the eastern United States, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said one of the biggest risks associated with the storm for Florida was the chance of tornadoes, eight of which had been confirmed
Thursday across the state. Scott urged residents to remain vigilant. “This one fortunately is a fast-moving storm,” he said. Slower-moving storms can pose a greater flood risk because they have more time to linger and dump rain. In The Acreage, a part of Palm Beach County, Fla., pre-kindergarten teacher Maria Cristina Arias choked back tears and clutched valuable personal papers as she surveyed the damage done by a tornado to her five-bedroom home when she was away. Windows were smashed and a neighbor’s shed had crashed into her bedroom. “It’s all destroyed,” she told The Palm see next page
from preceding page ernment. It is the 1st Article of N.H.’s Constitution that states that a government originates from the people. The 2nd that we have “certain” natural rights, in the 3rd that in forming a society surrender of some but not without the society ensuring the individual an equivalent. It is the 4th article that is the most important in that it declares one natural right for which no equivalent can be give or received and that right is the right of conscience. Today we might wonder how they managed to survive as a government and a nation without all the rules and regulations we survive with today. Oddly enough science has also figured out how it is that fish, birds, grasshoppers, mammals and humans manage to group, or otherwise swarm. Turns out that it is done with perhaps three simple rules of behavior. Our government started out with
just as simple rules; first was that the people have an unalienable right of conscience, something which the established government can’t give an equivalent; that the government is answerable to the people (not the people to the government). And the last article enshrined in 1784, (Social Virtues Inculcated) Article 38. A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of the Constitution (by those in government) and a constant adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry, frugality, and all the social virtues . . . So we have it, a long and storied history towards a society with equality of law (at least on the books); a government which does not allow the serving of a turkey sandwich without the stamp of a federal agency’s approval, and adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry, frugality long forgotten. G.W. Brooks Meredith