The Star-Herald newspaperof Scottsbluff published my "Letter to the Editor" on Sunday, May 7 2006 as found below with no further edits. Considering how many of us have been bitterly complaining how media hasn't permitted most of us to get our views out, I would strongly encourage all of you to give the Star-Herald a phone call or email them on Monday, THANKING them immensely for publishing the following article! The ones who give us an equal voice are the ones who should be thanked and given some respect. I'm providing their contact information following the article:


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I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW APATHETIC WE'VE BECOME
By Kurt Schanaman, Scottsbluff Nebraska

As a concerned veteran, I can't help but to be alarmed at just how
apathetic we've become on the current invasion of illegal aliens. Have
we not learned our lesson from September 11, 2001? We continue to fail
when it comes to putting our government to work on border security!
Remember, those who attacked the World Trade Center weren't legal
citizens.

The government only estimates the number of those who are here
illegally. They don't know how many are here for sure. They don't even
know what they're doing! If anyone can simply walk right through our
borders undetected - the next event we could experience is a
tractor-trailer carrying a nuclear warhead right into the heart of one
of our largest cities. Is this the way we want our borders being
handled? God forbid!

I have seen demonstrations by illegal aliens flooding our city streets
chanting “La Raza” and “Viva Aztlan!” meaning “The Race” and “Live
Aztlan!” Aztlan is a militant push from South of the border to turn our
border states and California into a new nation which Mexican extremists
say are stolen lands and that they are taking them back asking us to go
back to Europe. When a friend of mine sent me a video taken at one of
the rallies in California, the main speaker shown in that video blurted
into the microphone “It is time to take back our nation. We are in a
civil war” I was galvanized and entered into this hot debate.

Since when did it become ok for a group of illegal aliens to declare war
on our homeland? Since when did it become ok for our government and
media to disregard such threats? And since when did it become ok for our
governing body to ignore these war cries and chants while offering
amnesty? They want our states as a new nation called Aztlan!

I think the people of our nation had better wake up and start driving
this train. It is frighteningly obvious that the train master is asleep
at the switch.


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