OpinionDecember 16, 2023

What is courage?

Dr. Neil Goodman (biohackerusa.com), a pediatrician with more than 20 years of experience, could not in good conscience, give patients the COVID-19 “agent” (shot), calling it “morally incomprehensible,” saying he “knew he’d have blood on his hands” if he did, because he “knew something was intrinsically wrong” with it, and in seeing overall results of the jab, calls it a “modern-day Holocaust.” (See Nov. 26 Sid Roth interview at www.SidRoth.org.)

For standing up for his beliefs and wanting to protect children — not be “complicit, potentially, in their demise,” he was let go.

Palestinian Mosab Hassan Yousef (author of “Son of Hamas”), now in the U. S., spoke out on Israel’s Oct. 7 attack at a Palm Beach synagogue, calling Hamas “savages” and asked others to “have the dignity to call Hamas what they are.” He knew he was risking his life by not remaining silent.

Lebanese-American recording artist Carine Bassili felt “a call to raise her voice and her music for peace between Lebanon and Israel” (The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 18, 2021) prior to singing “God of Israel” (has been the No. 1 Christian song in America) with Israel’s Yair Levi and American Sean Feucht. Bassili received personal death threats, with many calling to boycott her for working with an Israeli, forbidden in Lebanon.

Biblical “Nebuchadnezzar wants us to bow (to culture, political ideology ...) but there is a generation that stands ... and will not acquiesce,” said famed Pastor Sammy Rodriguez, seeming to perfectly describe Goodman, Yousef and Bassili.

Ronda Granlund

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Pay attention to history

I watched the recent speech by Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago, and he stated that the Republicans were still hurting from the freedom the Black population gained from the Civil War.

He really should have paid attention during history classes. The Republican party was formed in March 1854. Their first president was Abraham Lincoln. In the north were Republican states and the south were Democratic. The Democrats opposed the freeing of slaves and 110,100 Union soldiers gave their lives to help free the Black population. The Democratic Party opposed Black people being allowed to vote. In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted this right to Black men. The Republicans who pushed this through were considered radical right activists. Sadly, women did not gain this right until 1920.

In a recent letter, the author was talking about Mark R. Levin’s book, “The Democrat Party Hates America.” He wrote they never hated this country but did hate Republicans. How can anyone hate someone they don’t know?

What makes America strong is our ability to disagree but still love one another.

Dan Long

Clarkston

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