I hope the American U.S. citizen will remember what some of the congressmen and women has done against the wishes of the legal citizens of this country. Lindsey Graham, Ted Kennedy, John McCain and President Bush tried to push the so-called amnesty bill for illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens against the will of most all the people who work and make the country what it really was -- a good strong Democratic free nation that our ancestors fought and died for.

Now these money-grabbing, power-grabbing and no-good scoundrels are selling out. I think Lindsey Graham is trying to get ready for the race to the White House in 2012, but I say put him out of the arena now and don't let him even have the keys to the toilets in the Senate.

We need good strong honest congressmen and women looking out for the interests of the United States of America. We also need to punish the ones who are selling this nation out, and I don't mean a slap on the hand. I say put them before a firing squad and get rid of them, because they will never be trustworthy, good and honest citizens.

It's time the legal citizens of the USA demand that we get the U.S. borders and the ports secured from these illegal aliens and the terrorists entering every day. It's not safe to go to a ball game, race track, restaurant, school, church, etc.

The armed forces need to be on our borders and ports protecting this nation. Let the other nations protect themselves.

I think we all realize now that the war with Iraq was a war to make all of President Bush's and Vice President Dick Cheney's friends billionaries, along with themselves, off the blood of the working-class men and women of this country. Washington's congressmen seem to have just brushed Americans aside.

-- Henry T. Bozard, Orangeburg

Pro-American

or anti-American?

Concerning the article "Failures" by Charley Reese, Oct. 9, there's a question in my mind as to whether he is pro-American or anti-American. He talks against "the civilian leadership in Washington," calling it the "Washington hotshots" and "the military's officer corps." He also speaks of "the great blunder made my Donald Rumsfeld."

This kind of talk plays right into the hands of our enemies. If he were a red-blooded, God-fearing American, he would speak in helpful and uplifting terms of our God-loving president and others who are working so hard to protect and defend our beloved America. Had we not gone there to fight our enemies, we would be fighting the brunt of the war here in America.

-- Ruth C. Frye, Bamberg

Freedom of speech

will prevail

Freedom of speech was squelched at the Oct. 7 Santee stakeholders' public forum on the controversial project proposed by Dubai-based Jafza. Santee Mayor Seabrooks abruptly ended the question-and-answer session.

Also, Orangeburg County Development Commission Executive Director Gregg Robinson cut off a stakeholder's statement about a terrorism threat.

Our Santee forefathers fought the Battle of Eutaw Springs for the right of peaceable assembly. The approval of a King George III or an Arab emir is not required.

-- James L. Townsend Jr., Orangeburg

Resort will be

trapped in Santee

I picked up the Oct. 28 paper from my paper box. While reading the headline on the front page, "Orangeburg County's field of dreams," my stomach turned and I was unable to eat my breakfast. To think the land would be sold to a foreign country. I can't believe it.

Santee will no longer be the small, bea.jpgul town in America. It will be a polluted, noisy and traffic-ridden dump, and the Resort will be trapped in the middle.

-- Jim Farrell, Santee

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