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What do you value?

To the editor: Do you value life? Is the First Amendment right to speak and assemble cherished by those you know? Is the right to bear arms as stated in the Second Amendment important to you? Regardless of politics, the vast majority of Americans value life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We also value the right to bear arms as established by law. Now is the time for freedom loving Minnesotans to speak up. Speak up for the freedom to protest and protect our neighbors. Speak up for the right to state openly what you believe. Speak up for the ability to listen to others speak ...

Looks like Homeland Security cover-up

To the editor: Saturday. Jan. 24, the world watched videos of a gentleman get basically executed for helping a woman who had been pushed down by a federal officer in Minnesota. The woman spoke to the officer and then he shoved her down. Apparently what she said to him scared him so badly, he thought it was OK to use physical force on her. She’s lucky he didn’t shoot her. The gentleman who tried to help her get up was not so lucky.  The federal officer who had pushed her down, grabbed that gentleman, sprayed chemical agent in his face twice, and with other federal ...

Is Minnesota now a better place?

To the editor: On Sunday I read an article in the Star Tribune about two women arrested and handcuffed in the back of a car. An ICE agent in the front seat of the vehicle had a seizure. As the man was losing consciousness, they asked to be freed of the handcuffs and administered life-saving first aid to the agent. Tippi Amundson, a kindergarten teacher with CPR training, held the agent’s head so body fluids would not collect in his throat and strangle him. She realized that the agent would not have done the same for her. After an ambulance took the agent to the hospital, the women ...

Address root causes for abortion

To the editor: U.S. Representative Finstad received an A+ on the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America National Pro-Life Scorecard. Since Ms. Anthony is one of my heroes, I had to know more. This scorecard has one criteria - “pro-life” legislation. This organization claims Ms. Anthony as “the influential suffragette who also fiercely opposed abortion”. Ms. Anthony’s stand on abortion could be inferred from these quotes: “Much as I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder, earnestly as I desire its suppression, I cannot believe… that such a[n anti-abortion] law would ...

Thank you New Ulm area Christians

To the editor: I would like to send a heartfelt thank you to the group of New Ulm area Catholics that submitted a letter to the editor this week calling out the activities being committed by ICE in the state of Minnesota, as well as any other individuals that are willing to step up and write letters to the paper. Whatever anyone’s beliefs about the impact of immigrants in this country, I would think every decent person could come together and agree that breaking down doors without warrants and pulling U.S. citizens half clothed out of their homes in subzero temperatures is immoral ...

Trump being dictatorial

To the editor: I am embarrassed and angry, with our president. He is, being dictatorial He  attacked Venezuela militarily. He has offered to buy Greenland. Having been told it is not for sale, like a petulant child, he’s threatening to “take” Greenland “peacefully, or through military actions, if necessary.” These are also the words, and actions, of a dictator…president Trump dramatizes, sensationalizes, and, seems fine inciting further violence…giving him an excuse to have law enforcement, to move in dramatically, aggressively…reminiscent of the Nazi regime. Both ...