Opinions

Dear editor,
Well America, you got what you think you wanted: Joe Biden and Che Guevara Marxist, Kamala Harris, by proxy as the new presidential American leadership “fake” alpha bet soup media has already called it.
As soon as you calm down from your frenzy, think about what you really got and what you will be losing in short order.   When you lose your freedom of speech and cannot utter the slightest disdain for another person regardless of its validity, because these little so called Millennial peaceful protesters, and please, let’s “call a spade a spade”, looters, thugs, anarchist, and rioters will burn your business and homes down, it was your vote.
When you lose your religious freedom because it conflicts with the values of other religions, i.e: church of Wicca and Satanism, it was your vote.
When you lose your job because your employer cannot afford to pay you because of higher taxes, remember it was your vote.
When ISIS terrorist come into our cities and lop your head off with no fear of retribution, remember it was your vote.
When your Christian radio and television programs are removed from airways, because the new Biden administration deemed it “controversial” because it teaches about Jesus Christ as the Living God.  Remember it was your vote.
There are so many bad things to come that I’m betting you did not take into account before you voted. When they happen, you know who is to blame-not the Democrats, nor the republicans. The blame will be you in recalcitrant to go along with extremism ideology, your greed, selfishness, ignorance, and yes, your VOTE! 
Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Liberal American Citizen, you literally have sent this country back to the Middle Ages.
TSGT. Joseph L Bryan, U.S.A.F. Ret.

Dear editor,
To stop amnesty, keep Senate in GOP control.
Amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens. Funding for sanctuary cities. A suspension of deportations. And a worsening job market. That’s what America could look like in the first 100 days of a Joe Biden administration -- but only if the Democrats gain complete control of Washington.
That’s why Georgia voters should do everything in their power to keep the Senate under Republican control, regardless of which party occupies the Oval Office in January. Without control of the Senate, Democrats’ radical immigration plans will be stopped cold.
Georgia is ranked number seven for states with the highest concentration of illegal immigrants. Ultimately, it’s low-skilled American workers, higher percentages of whom tend to be Hispanic and Black, who suffer the most economically from the presence of illegal immigrants.
Illegal aliens accept lower wages than Americans, and many businesses are willing to run the risk of hiring them. American laborers lose out on work as a result.
Consider one of the most famous examples, right here in Georgia. When ICE raided a chicken processing plant, three-quarters of the company’s workforce disappear overnight. The company, Crider, then announced job openings -- at higher wages. That helped low-income Black citizens in Georgia find decent work.
Many companies have grown accustomed to cheap illegal labor and actively prefer it. “I found that undocumented men work at much higher rates than legal immigrants and native workers, and if you look at it over time, you see the gap is growing very, very rapidly,” immigration scholar George Borjas of Harvard University said in an interview. “Ten to 15 years ago the gap in employment between undocumented and native workers was there, but it wasn’t so large.”
Borjas’ research has found that illegal aliens keep working whether prevailing wages go up or down. That partly explains why wages in labor markets with large percentages of illegal workers remain stagnant.
If the Democrats take the Senate, Congress would undoubtedly toe the Biden-Harris line. Lawmakers will not waste their golden opportunity and will press forward with their maximum demands. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has already warned that if a Republican minority tries to stop them, Democrats will end the filibuster and proceed by simple majority vote. A GOP majority in the Senate is the only thing that can stop them if Trump loses.
To protect Georgia workers, Republican control of the Senate is absolutely critical. David Perdue has long advocated for closing the loopholes that have encouraged waves of illegal aliens. It’s the best defense against the Biden-Harris-Pelosi plans for amnesty and citizenship for those who came here illegally.
David Hancock
David Hancock of Lawrenceville is co-chair of the United Tea Party of Georgia, a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention, and a former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dear editor,
Why vote Republican?
The Democratic Party has stooped to a new low on the National level that surpasses anything the Republican Party has done. The Dems have bought the printed media, the networks and the social media. The Democratic leaders act like little spoiled children. Instead of attending the vote to send nominee Amy Barrett to full senate, they boycott the meeting and put pictures in their committee seats. Most children are not this immature.
The Democratic Party has become an evil party. They are no longer the party they were in the 60’s and 70’s.
1. They have removed God from their platform.
2. They support the killing of unborn babies even babies after birth.
3. They attack those who are prolife.
4. They attack those who stand on the Word of God.
5. They want to remove God from our government, our nation and the public arena.
Now another reason I’m writing this is I want to address those who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ and support the Democratic Party. Don’t just vote for the party but vote for the party whose platform stands closer to the Word of God. Followers of Jesus Christ should vote according to God’s Word. They need to understand what is evil and what is good, what is right and what is wrong, Scripture says, “Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil. Isaiah 5:20.
The Democratic Party stands for:
1. Abortion on demand
2. Same sex marriage
3. Allowing a child to determine what gender they want to be
4. God being removed from public life
5. Disorder and riot to support your cause
(Just to name a few)
If you support the Democratic Party, you support the above. Then you are not following God’s Word and you are supporting evil and should not vote for the Democratic ticket.
Wayne Soud

Dear editor,
Well, look at that, another jock wants to opine the shamefulness of the American judicial system as in Dallas Cowboy football team quarterback Dak Prescott who said in news media of the current news item in Louisville, Kentucky, in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor by law enforcement officers.
Mr. Prescott said “The Breonna Taylor ruling disgusting” myself, and a plurality of likeminded others feel it was certainly the right decision handed down by the judicial system. Ms. Taylor’s death was a tragedy, but she was not murdered, a grand jury chose to indict one officer for “wanton endangerment” and that led to arson, looting, destruction and violence. 
I for one, could give a flying fig what some pompous ass, knuckle dragging, gold tooth athlete that can’t put two sentences together and gets paid thirty one million dollars to play a doggone childs game in his mindless drivel. This country has become mob ruled, and comments from people like Prescott and LeBron James, have inflamed and emboldened violence.
To make matters worse, these narcissistic, inflated egotistical jerks embrace this new social movement “Black Lives Matter” and have shoved it right down the people (the fans) throats who choose to support professional sports. (BLM) is a Marxist organization that sets out to radically transform America into a socialist country, which by the way, socialism is just a rest stop towards communism. 
And coupled this, (BLM) mantra is to assassinate police officers. Do you remember the Ferguson, Missouri riots? Those traitors (BLM) chanted “what do we want , more dead cops”, pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon”.
And three years ago, a member of (BLM) murdered six police officers in Dallas, Texas, and urinated on our American flag that your sons and daughters died for on the battlefield. Now all of a sudden, professional sports, retail businesses, city, state, and federal government actually throw their arms around these traitors to our country, heck, even the cops kneel with them now. 
Try and wrap your head around that one. Of course, you sports grovelers will still sit back in your Lazy Boy and still support these buffoons. Welcome to 21st America.
TSGT. Joseph Bryan, U.S.A.F. Ret.

Dear editor,
Do we really want to play football this year? Very late Thursday afternoon my wife got a phone call informing her that my son was being quarantined for 14 days because he was in close proximity (defined as less than 6 feet) for more than 15 minutes with a student who tested positive for COVID-19. We later learned from other parents that this affected one other player on the football team and one cheerleader among other students. My son was already concerned about being quarantined before classes started. However, he believed that if he wore his mask all of the time, he would not be quarantined due to another student having been infected. So he wore it. All students did. It is a school rule and a good one. I was told later that the desks were almost six feet apart, but not quite, at least not on the day they were measured, a few days after the infected student last came to school. In one classroom, there were shower curtains between the desks. And how did the school nurse determine who was to be quarantined? She looked at a seating chart turned in by the teacher on the first day of school. Were the students in their assigned seats on the day in question? Maybe some were. Maybe some were not. They never bothered to ask the students or parents before making a decision. There was no opportunity to be heard whatsoever. Then they hid behind the South Central Health District. “This is not us; it is the health department doing this,” I was told. No it is not. It is the Dodge County School System. They may be applying rules promulgated by public health officials and calling public health officials for advice. However, at the end of the day, it is the school nurse and administration using authority granted to them by the board of education making the call.
I pride myself on trying to stay out of school affairs and letting my children fight their own battles and work out their issues with teachers and coaches. However, after consoling my son and trying to encourage him, I went to work drafting a lawsuit. I found a judge Friday morning, and he scheduled an emergency hearing for 1:00 pm. I was only seeking an opportunity to be heard on whether or not the players and cheerleader should be quarantined, an opportunity they never received from their school. About one hour before the hearing, I was notified that an additional 22 players were being quarantined due to a Dublin player testing positive. This rendered my hearing over two players virtually moot, so I withdrew my request for a hearing. The Dublin player tested positive on Wednesday following our game on Friday. Allegedly, the Dublin player felt symptoms on Friday, the day of our game. Yet he played in the game. Due to privacy issues, the name of the Dublin player has not been released. Therefore, due to contact tracing, our 24 players who played at least 15 minutes in the Dublin game were quarantined for 14 days dating back to Friday’s game. Never mind the fact that our players have been in school for a whole week with other students, with each other at practice, and with the other 32 players on the team who are not being quarantined. What about the siblings of the 24 who are still in school? What about their family members who they have had contact with for seven days? There is an advertisement that I saw recently depicting a man standing on a beach trying to mop up an ocean. That is what we are doing here.
Coronavirus is real people. It is killing some people and making some people very sick. Fortunately, children tend to experience much lighter symptoms. It is also everywhere, and we cannot avoid it. We mandate hand washing, mask wearing and social distancing for a reason. These are supposed to be effective means to limit the spread. Nothing is one hundred percent effective. I am not saying that quarantining is never necessary. However, retroactive quarantining seven days after the fact defies logic. We have thrown out common sense in favor of a rigid set of written rules that are in and of themselves arbitrary like six feet and 15 minutes.
It has already been said that I care more about football than I do about education. That is not true. However, I believe both are important and do not have to be mutually exclusive. My son will be fine either way. The Lord has blessed him with a good mind and much more motivation than I had at his age. He will be attending college on an academic scholarship. My wife and I will be able to make up the additional money he will need. Everyone is not so fortunate. For some of our students, athletic scholarships are the way they will make it out of Dodge. A few have enough on film already to make that happen. However, others still need to show more in a short period of time. The extension of the NCAA dead period in recruiting doesn’t help them.
We have great faculty, staff and administration in our school system. They are dealing with things we never imagined possible. It is not fair for me to judge them, but I also cannot remain silent when there has to be a better way.
The GHSA, under the leadership of Dr. Robin Hines, did a wonderful thing by providing us an opportunity across the state to play and watch the great sport of football. We started the thing knowing that it would be a difficult process filled with starts, stops and restarts. The GHSA provided as much flexibility as possible for teams to juggle their schedules. Some things are beyond human control. There will be very few schools, if any, who manage to get in 10 regular season games. But for the most part, the schools that maximize this opportunity will be those who come up with a common sense approach to quarantining. There is just no way in which Dodge County will make it through the football season with the methods we are using. We cancelled football games with West Laurens and Fitzgerald where not a single player on either team had a positive test. Let that sink in. Put very bluntly, there are those who look for creative yet safe ways to play. There are others who look for ways not to play. I still hope and believe that Dodge County falls into the first category.
Joey Marchant