Off the Editor’s Desk – 11-6-2019
PROTECTED CONTENT
If you’re a current subscriber, log in below. If you would like to subscribe, please click the subscribe tab above.
Username and Password Help
Please enter your email and we will send you a password reset link.
Your responsibility!
We are living in a free country and we elect people for public office for our local city, township, county, school and state governments. Each year at this time, those officials create a budget for the coming year.
That budget is what creates a figure for your annual property taxes that you pay each January.
Over the past few weeks, local governments have been creating that budget and you have the right to view those budgets. Some of those municipalities have placed notices within the pages of this newspaper to inform everyone what is happening within that municipality and show you where the money is coming from and how it is spend.
It’s your responsibility to look these budgets over and you have the right to attend the budget hearings and voice your opinion, or question that budget. I know that local officials work hard on those documents to see that all the needs within that budget are funded and that they get the most for the taxpayer’s dollar.
If didn’t see your local municipal budget published, you can call upon your local clerk to get a copy and review it. It’s your responsible and your privilege.
Another responsible of ours is to see that another Holocaust does not happened again to this planet. It is hard to determine how many people died during World War II, but estimates range to over fifty million.
There are people that claim that the Holocaust never happened, but then there are those that say that we never visited the moon.
For those of you who are not aware of the term “Holocaust” is where millions of Jews and other people who opposed the Nazi rule of Germany almost a hundred years ago, were sent to camps and died at the hands of war criminals that committed genocide.
I just finished reading Bill O’Reilly’s new book “Killing the SS”. It’s about the Nazis who committed war crimes during the Second World War and were able to find their way out of Germany after the war. It tells what happened to people like Heinrich Himmler, Dr. Josef (The Angel of Death) Mengele, Martin Bormann, and a person named Elfriede Huth. She was a once a concentration camp guard. So evil was this group, that they used dogs and whips to torment and kill women and children. In the camp where she was a guard, 6,993 women and children were killed between January and April of 1945.
Huth survives the war and is not tried as a War Criminal and in 1959 makes an application for a visa to live in the United States. But on the Visa she will omit any mention of her wartime service.
She marries a Jewish man by the name of Fred Rinkel, and lives in San Francisco, California until 2004, when she is found out and for lying on her visa, she is returned to Germany, but again she is not tried for her war crimes. She lives on her Social Security and according to the O’Reilly book she has been paid more than $120,000 by the U.S. Government since her retirement. As of the writing of his book, (2018) O’Reilly notes that she is ninety-five.
According to O’Reilly who quoted a report by the inspector general of the Social Security Administration that indicated that between February 1962 and June 2015, the United States paid $20.2 million in benefits to suspected Nazi war criminals. A new law passed in January of 2015 called No Social Security Benefits for Nazis ended that practice.
So it’s our duty to see that this type of treatment of members of any group of people does not happen again and when we vote, let’s make sure that we keep that type of people from getting power. Nationally, one thing that we must do is limit the terms of office.
Get involved; it’s your duty.
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton