Letter to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Monday, August 9, 2010

Tea Party rally turns

out to be 'interesting'

To the Editor:

This Saturday afternoon I decided to head down to the 4-H Fairgrounds to attend a rally for the Greene County Tea Party. While I don't usually find myself on the same side of the political spectrum as Tea Partiers, I thought it would be interesting to see how the group handles itself on a grassroots level in my backyard.

Admittedly, I did go into the meeting with my own preconceptions, but imagine my surprise when I found the truth to be much worse than I had anticipated.

The first 35 minutes were spent comparing the current administration with the regime of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. Now, many have portrayed the Tea Party as a fringe group of radicals bent on using skewed history and fear in an effort to manipulate people, but this was unadulterated fear-mongering at its worst. To characterize a center-left presidency in the same breath as the most villainous group of murderers in history is shameful. To speak of Barack Obama, our first African-American president, a man who would have been put to death or into forced-slavery under Hitler's rule, as a modern-day equivalent is either staggeringly ignorant or willfully evil.

You can disagree with his policies, that is your given right as an American citizen, but to spread these types of lies and misinformation is a disgusting practice worthy of scorn.

I will not deny we, as a nation, are in a bad spot. There needs to be radical reform if we are to maintain the type of lives we've grown accustomed to, and even more if we are to prosper again. In some ways, I agree with the stated beliefs of the Tea Party: A more streamlined government, accountability for officials, and a new direction before we face a declining country, but it should be known, this movement is a front for conservative ideals gone awry, a new bastion for the same group of people who once used the Red Scare to further their political ambitions.

I promise you, there's nothing to see here but a pathetic group of ill-informed, Fox News-parroting, frightened individuals who can only lead you and the ones you love astray.

Jared Yates Sexton

Linton

Thanks for helping

with youth football camp

To the Editor:

The Third Annual Linton Youth Football Camp would like to thank area sponsors:

Hoosier Hit, Elks Lodge 866, R. Randall Baker Accounting, American Legion Post 22, and JP's Fish and More.

Scott Padgett

Linton