Letters from Readers, Jan. 25, 2023

Did you ever check the inflation numbers when President Trump was in office? …best in 40 years! Gasoline prices in 2019 $2.19 per gallon. How do you liberals account for today’s prices?  

Andrew Anderson

Lancaster

Counterpoint

Steve Lockhart: “...do you know the Founders would have opposed roadblocks generally?”

Since the Fourth Amendment enables people to refuse police demands for identification if they haven’t done anything illegal, it’s a virtual certainty the Founders would have opposed roadblocks. 

Unreasonable searches and seizures occur when one isn’t suspected of committing a crime and is characteristic of a police state. 

Steve Lockhart: “Because I see nothing wrong with any attempt to rid our roads of impaired drivers doesn’t mean I ‘may not value the Fourth Amendment.’ It means I value human life at the expense of a minor inconvenience.”

Unsurprisingly, Steve Lockhart ignored my quoting Benjamin Franklin’s “Those who would [surrender] essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” 

Steve Lockhart: “...you [omitted] the most important part of my statement regarding DUI checkpoint effectiveness. I stated, ‘If they only take one drunk driver off the road, they’re effective…’” 

I quoted that sentence verbatim in the first paragraph of my 12.22.22 response to Lockhart. I countered it within the third paragraph. 

Lockhart: “...you ludicrously refuted John Manning’s response to the carnage he dealt with as a physician due to DUI accidents by claiming ... he had no genuine concern for his patients...”

Yeah, there’s something about a typically well-off physician who deems healthcare a privilege that screams, “I’m it for the money.” 

Lockhart: “The arrogance you display is objectionable... [T]here are others who, when they disagree with you, are scolded or demeaned in your responses.”

His lack of an exemplar is noteworthy. And it’s revealing that despite all the dog whistle bigotry that appears on this page, Steve Lockhart chose to condemn my letters which are anything but bigoted. 

He also ignored the many arrogant demands that other leftist letter writers and I leave the country.”

Guy Marsh

Lancaster