The Shadow
Dear Editor,
This coming week, we have a rather awkward conflict presented to us.
First, we celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Then we commemorate the 1973 Supreme Court decisions, which decreed that a pre-born child is not legally a person, and thus has no right to live and no right to be born.
Effectively, the Supreme Court decisions asserted that no one in America, including Dr. King, had any right to be born.
Of course, this was in line with the court’s infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, which denied that even free blacks could be citizens.
After a bloody Civil War, that decision was eventually negated by the Fourteenth Amendment, which, carefully worded, asserted, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
This Fourteenth Amendment confirmation of birth citizenship, was effectively nullified by the court in 1973. Its decisions that year asserted that a human fetus only becomes a legal person after the birth process is completed. Up to that time, the pre-born baby may legally be killed, even while being delivered, by the most cruel, hideous and barbaric methods imaginable.
Legally, then, in view of the court’s denial of personhood status to any pre-born child and its assertion that such personhood exists only sometime after the birth process is completed, no “person” ever actually went through the process of being born. The court decreed that no person was ever born in the United States.
Thus it is that, effectively, the court rendered null and void the birth citizenship ratified in the Fourteenth Amendment. It seems then that, legally, the only citizens in America are those who have become naturalized citizens.
All the rest of us, according to the court’s reasoning and decisions, are not citizens, and may even be residing here in America illegally.
This is not a cause for celebration.
Sincerely,
Fr. Tom Collins, Hot Springs
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Dear Editor,
This letter is for our County Administrator Jon Lanford.
I?recently visited our county governmental complex to purchase a county dog license for my dog Maggie. Upon entering the complex — to my disappointment and disgust — was the condition of our national and state flags.
Our state flag was so bad you could use part of it for a kite tail. Our national flag was frazzled from top to bottom from being whipped in the wind. Our local VFW burns better flags than this.
After seeing this, I thought, well, that makes sense. Our county has been circling the drain for years from poor leadership. I?guess the chain has finally been pulled.
To debase our country and home when so many have served and died (thousands from this county for our home and nation) is not acceptable.
I?go to the complex a couple of times a year. The flags caught my attention right off.
Mr. Lanford, what is your excuse for this disrespect? This is a simple fix. So what are you doing to manage Alleghany County?
Allan Broughman – Horse Mountain View, Covington
