Why does it seem as if every time a big election comes up the Republican oil men make the poor working slobs under their command run outside and jack up the price of gasoline that's already in the ground?

There hasn't been any difference in the refining process, but they jack up the prices anyway. Why isn't someone in government keeping an eye on these crooks? I guess that would still have the fox guarding the chicken coup. Who is there to protect the citizenry of this nation against the gas pump terrorists and the people who sell water for ridiculous prices?

People who are price gouging us at the pumps should be hauled into court, prosecuted and made to pay restitution to all of us! But we don't have any politicians with enough backbone to do what's right as far as I can see. When these Republicans get ready for financing their elections, we, the American public should be at code red alert. No one else is looking out for our best interest. Maybe we need to kick some of these bums out of office, but that would take a united effort. Most of us aren't united in anything, not even in the worshipping of God.

That reminds me of one other thing. If our forefathers came here first for religious freedom and set up this nation on the principle of belief in God, after stealing the country from and killing many Native Americans, why are we allowing other religions to dictate what we do about our 10 Commandments? And why do you politicians pray to God before each session or start of their work day? Stop being hypocrites and stand up for something! Your forefathers stood up long and hard to keep African-Americans as slaves, mammies and bed-warmers! Grow some backbones now! If they don't believe in what this country was set up on first, let them find another place to live and worship. That should be plain and simple enough.

We can't go overseas to their former countries and demand our rights be recognized, or our God. Whoever is offended by the display of our 10 Commandments, tough! That's why public schools are so crazy now that you don't want your children in them. You send your kids to private schools because you are afraid and there is no God in our schools anymore. Where there is no God, the Devil runs rampant, because God and the Devil cannot co-exist. It's as true now as it was back then.

What we're based on shouldn't change for any one group or another. We allow them to worship what they want here, that should be good enough. But don't come here after we're halfway straightened out telling us what we can't do in a country that was founded on those principles that I obtain from my forefathers. Too many of my other forefathers have died for me to have these rights to worship my God. I shall not be moved or let them down!

Religious freedom for all, yes! Change our Christian beliefs and everything else to include hiding the Ten Commandments, for them, no! Gay children in school openly soliciting, gay bishops and marriages are an abomination before God and nature and so is being ashamed of him and what he gave us to live by! That's what my Bible says. Now I dare you to try and change the Bible to read the way you want it to read! You can't even touch their Koran, being an infidel as they call us, not believing as they do. Why should they have a voice in what I believe? Think about it.

-- Harry Coles Jr., St. Matthews

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