Off The Editor’s Desk – 11-11-2020
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It’s time to throw in the towel!
As I write this column on Monday morning, six days after the election, President Trump has yet to concede the election to Joe Biden. The president’s team is looking to file suits over the voting and ballots that were counted in several states where they feel that the ballot box was stuffed with illegal ballots that favored Biden.
I am one of many that feel that something is wrong with the election results.
But, I feel that with a popular vote favoring Biden by more than three million, it’s hard for me to think that there is any way that the courts could change the outcome in favor of President Trump. The people have spoken.
So, let’s throw in the towel, Mr. President, and move on, even with me feeling that the next four years will bring many changes to our great country, most of them I will not like. I will pray that President Elect Joe Biden’s health will survive for four more years. Because if he falls victim to old age and Ms. Harris moves into the White House, people like me that speak against the agenda she will put forward, will be silenced along with the rest of us that have conservative views.
President Abraham Lincoln once stated: “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Over the past several years we have watched as college students have stopped conservative speakers from exercising their free speech rights guaranteed under the First Amendment of the Constitution.
We have for a long time heard reports of students all over the country trying to stop anyone who has a different opinion than their liberal view.
Now comes a story from the Idaho Press and I would like to print the first couple of paragraphs: BOISE — “Last week, Big City Coffee, a downtown Boise business, closed its recently opened Boise State University Campus location after students protested the owner, Sarah Fendley, due to her support of law enforcement.
“It remains unclear what was said in a meeting between BSU administrations and Fendley that resulted in Big City Coffee canceling its university contract. What’s clear is Big City Coffee was unpopular among a faction of students at BSU. Faced with students protest and a lack of public support from the university, Fendley ended her contract and closed the campus coffee shop less than two months after opening.”
So, here is what I am going to propose, that we defund colleges and universities. Those students who use our tax-supported institutions to attempt to stop someone from exercising their Constitutional rights should do it on their own dime and not on my taxpayer dollar.
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton