by Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton
Extremism grows out of fear – fear of not getting into heaven, fear that someone will take our stuff, fear that people will think we’re not good enough, fear that we’ll get hurt, and so on.
Everyone wants to be safe, and it’s natural and therefore easy to think that rules and laws and guidelines will help.
But the only thing that can improve the safety of all of us is being open and honest about sharing our own fears and being open and caring in listening to others.
Helen Sabin’s letter here last week was titled “Safety or insanity,” touting Ryan Zinke as the one and Monica Tranel as the other. That’s malarkey.
Mr. Zinke is so good at spouting rules and flouting them that he was hired by the Trump administration to be the US Secretary of the Interior in March 2017 and by early 2019 was told to resign or be fired for using the position to enrich himself and his friends.
Ms. Tranel has indeed run for office as both a Republican and a Democrat because she knows that the person is more important than the party. Having worked for years as an attorney for the Montana Public Service Commission, she knows the issues regarding utilities and infrastructure and wants to stand up for us, Montana consumers, against monopolies and the out-of-state money that seem so attractive to her opponents.
Similarly, since I am in Montana Senate District 83, I will vote not for Jason Ellsworth, whom I believe to be a thorough party man and “ethically challenged,” as someone said of Mr. Zinke, but for John Schneeberger, who is clearly not running for money or power, who wants to listen, and who wants to help save our republic.
There is no safety, except perhaps in listening and caring.
I believe in openness to what works best for all of us, so I believe in listening and change if necessary. It’s not “insanity” – simply the way people work best.
I will vote Democrat. Join me.
hsabin says
MFT shows her usual lack of logic-the title of her “opinion” piece should be, Don’t think then vote, as she voted for Biden – and how did that turn out for us?
Let’s see his accomplishments: Inflation at 8.5%. Food prices are up 20-30%. GAS is double what it was when Trump was in office. Our country has just sent NUKES to Europe and we are on the brink of a nuclear war, Millions of illegals have flooded into this country and we are supporting them with millions hidden in the green energy deal,
The most egregious of the DEMS and their actions? They support a mentally ill man who can’t even stay awake in an interview, a woman, TRANEL who is a hypocrite and socialist – she condemned Air bnb for owning homes they rent to others here in the valley calling them PREDATORS, yet she owns $50,000 worth of stock in the company. So who is the predator?
But the latest with the DEMS and BIDEN? He took away the citizenship of a gold star mom- and she is a legal citizen from the 60’s – why? she criticized him for the death of her son. Disgusting: Joe Strips Angel Mom of US Citizenship, Turns Her Life Upside Down
Just when you thought that Biden could not possibly stoop any lower comes this story. Americans had better wake up and realize what time it is. If you’re stuck in the old way of thinking and telling yourself, “It could never happen here,” please: WAKE UP. The Democrat Party of today can always stoop lower and dig deeper than we previously imagined. They’re nasty, they fight dirty, and nothing about the American system will stand in the way of their lust for power over every aspect of your life. Don’t believe me? Joe Biden has been stripping US citizenship away from “Angel Moms” – mothers whose children have been murdered by illegal aliens.
One group of Americans who were steadfast supporters of President Donald Trump was always the Angel Moms. These poor women have paid the ultimate sacrifice because of the reckless open border policies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and now Joe Biden. They’ve had sons or daughters murdered in pointless, completely unnecessary fashion by people who should never have been in our country in the first place.
One of those Angel Moms is Sabine Durden. She’s done countless interviews on C-SPAN, Fox News, and other mainstream media outlets to talk about the senseless death of her son, Dominic Durden, at the hands of an illegal alien invader.
Dominic was a 30-year-old Riverside County sheriff’s dispatcher in California in 2012. He was headed to work on his motorcycle one morning when illegal alien Juan Zacarias Lopez Tzun made an illegal left turn and smashed into Dominic. The young American suffered catastrophic injuries and died at the scene. Despite being charged with vehicular manslaughter and killing an innocent young American man, a Riverside County judge ended up sentencing Tzun to serve just 30 days in jail.
Ms. Durden immigrated to the United States legally from Germany several decades ago. She went through the legal process to become an American citizen in 1996.
She went in for foot surgery this summer and was recovering at home a month later when the criminal Joe Biden regime dropped a bomb on her. She received a hospital bill for $17,000 for the surgery. Sabine thought it was a billing error because she’s been on Medicare for the past few years.
When Sabine contacted Medicare to find out what the deal was, she was informed that her insurance claim was denied… because she was an “undocumented person.” She then called Social Security and discovered she was listed in their system as a “green card holder” and therefore was ineligible for Medicare.
Social Security told her to bring her passport and driver’s license to a local office to fill out some paperwork. But when she did that, she was informed that she needed to bring her naturalization certificate.
She’s still in red tape hell and trying to get this sorted out. I wondered how this was even possible. You can’t just strip someone’s citizenship away from them. It’s next to impossible to lose your American citizenship unless you go enlist in Al Qaeda or some foreign army at war with the US government.
So, It turns out, according to NOLO, that there are seven instances in which a person can be stripped of their US citizenship. Most of those seven instances involve things like renouncing your US citizenship at a US consular office while overseas or taking a job with a foreign government or signing up to fight with a foreign army. But #7 on the list is the one that caught my attention. It reads:
“Being convicted of treason or participating in any attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.”
And there it is.
The law doesn’t say you have to be convicted of an attempt to overthrow the US government. You just have to PARTICIPATE in an attempt to “overthrow the US government,” and the government can revoke your US citizenship.
The Democrats and the media continue to insist that the January 6 Election Justice Protest was an “insurrection” or an “attempt to overthrow the US government.” Joe Biden said that exact thing in his big #PedoHitler speech while flanked by US Marines.
And what was the name of that one patriotic group that went to Washington, DC on January 6? Oh, right… it was the Angel Moms. (From American Liberty Report)
Do you still think Joe Biden can’t stoop any lower? MFT is. a DEM. TRANEL is a DEM – Kamala Harris who has NEVER been to the border is a DEM and so is PELOSI! They follow along in lockstep and DO NOT THINK – just accuse others of their own personal failings. VOTE ZINKE and put TRANEL out to pasture – or in the desert where she can find snakes under many rocks.