Responding to a front page article in the Feb. 14-17 Humboldt Sun.
If the state (nation or county) has the right to take custody of (confiscate) any property that has been or could be used in a crime (undetermined), the "citizen" or occupant of space there in can claim nothing and has no right to anything other than the last meal he ate.
My belt could be used to strangle someone. My shoe could be used to hit someone. My foot could be used to kick someone. My telephone could be used to misrepresent a situation and cheat someone from his property or money. My pen could be used either as a weapon or to write a fraudulent check. My wife's panty hose could be used to strangle her during a rape. My automobile could be used to run over someone. My house or property could be used as an unlicensed brothel or to grow an illegal crop.
The fork I use to eat with could be used to stab someone. My camera could be used to take a pornographic picture. Do I need to mentions my firearms?
If the definition quoted by Sheriff Kilgore is valid or true, our country or state is no longer a place of freedom or opportunity but the lowest third world country where everything and everybody belongs to the state and can act only by permission or tolerance from those in authority.
I would prefer my freedoms under the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
I would like to know who and when our elected or appointed officials decided to ignore the most inspired documents of the last 300 years?
This travesty of justice must not be allowed to continue. The difference between "will" and "could" as a future action is a matter of conjecture and opinion and has no place or standing regarding our rights unless supported by observed actions.
Those who did so must be put out of office and the law repealed. Any one who accepts or operates with that state of mind or attitude does not deserve the name of "citizen" or to be in any position of power in this country.
Paul Schlehr
Winnemucca[[In-content Ad]]
