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Opinion
Observations ... and other reflections
February 24, 2004
Mrs. Lillie May Bolton-Ouzts of Greenwood celebrated a couple of milestones on Valentine’s Day. For one, that’s her birthday, and she turned 105.
That’s a significant event itself, but there was another milestone that few people ever reach, and maybe few noticed.
There are others who live to be 105 years old, but few do what Lander’s oldest graduate did. Her lifetime has touched three different centuries ….. the19th, 20th and 21st.
This is a leap year, so celebrating this February had another reason for being special for this wonderful lady.
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Howard Dean, Democratic presidential candidate, came on the national political scene like a rocket ….. and left just as fast.
Dean says, however, that he will continue working to rebuild the Democratic Party into the kind of liberal organization his politics proclaim, and has asked his followers to work with him.
Liberalism may already be an albatross around the neck of the national Democratic Party, at least as far as some South Carolina Democrats are concerned. In the last few years national Democrats have become so liberal they may be turning off traditional southern Democrats who have a history of being more conservative.
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Some people in the U. S. demand that we give terrorists the same legal considerations we give Americans. That’s ridiculous on its face.
Terrorists don’t follow any rules when they blow up, kill and maim. Why should the laws that apply to American citizens be used to give terrorists the same rights?
Why should terrorists have any rights in the first place? When they use any means to destroy our nation and our legal system, why should they be accorded the same constitutional protections as Americans? For that matter, why should they be allowed to use our system for anything?
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