To the editor:
If I see this political ad of a new famous “Republican Right to Life” candidate one more time it will be my strongest impulse in recent years to get down from the wall my powder and ball musket and shoot a hole in the high def TV set.
It’s not my desire to become a part of the Republican primary election process. I know that is the dominant political party in Kansas, and that this year’s election will be about the same as many elections before.
A Democrat in Kansas, supporting the women’s reform to make her own decisions, will come in second.
But I’m an early American. It was my great-great-great-grandparents, all English heritage – the Lumkins, Davis Ponphreys and Greens, all left England for the new world. They tired of the English royalty, now supported in the U.S. by the Chamber of Commerce. They feared and were persecuted for their religious beliefs. Freedom from religious domination was as important as the freedom of speech.
They were all part of the English that preferred the risk of long ocean voyages for individual rights and common sense judgments.
On the Fourth of July, we celebrate those early colonists’ fight for freedom of choice – their choice.
And on the corner of Central at Star, leaning on the blue box for mail, will be an old Kansan, holding a 13-star flag opposed to royalty; opposed to the irresponsible role of military weapons to civilians as supported by the National Rifle Association and opposed to the diminishing of the second of freedom to a religious oriented woman’s control.
He won’t be alone. Chosen, but projecting one up, will be those great-great-great-grandparents who know what it took to be a free American.
Robert M. Green,
El Dorado
