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CHEROKEEAN/HERALD of Rusk, Texas—Thursday, December 7,2000—Page 3A
Letters To the Editor
Handicapped Parking Space Used by Family Court Judge
Sonto Shops the Classifieds
At the Courthouse in Rusk, there are
only two (2) handicap parking spaces.
They are in the semi-circle drive on the
south side of the building. These spaces
are very near to the veterans affair office
and the elevators. This is the only wheel-
chair access to the courthouse.
One of these spaces is habitually occu-
pied by your hale and hearty Judge of the
County Court-at- Law, LeRue Dixon. Ap-
parently this guy is so filled with self
importance that he thinks that laws and
rules that he is so quick to inflict on
others do not apply to him.
Our governmental entities have spent
lots of taxpayer dollars to provide equal
access to all government buildings for
handicapped people. I do not believe these
dollars were spent to provide a parking
place for LeRue Dixon so that he does not
have to walk a few steps further to sit in
his office.
JERRY RIX
Rusk
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Two specially designated parking spaces behind the
Cherokee County Courthouse are designated for
handicapped persons. In the photo above, Cherokee County
Court-at-Law Judge LeRue Dixon parked his pickup truck
In one of the spots.
Community Responded Quickly After Machine Accident
We really have a lot to be thank-
ful for in this season of Thanksgiv-
ing.
On Friday, Nov. 17 Larry's coat
was caught in his lathe at the
machine shop, pulling him into
the machine. He suffered a broken
shoulder blade, bruised ribs and
some minor cuts and bruises He
was taken by ambulance to Mother
Frances ER in Tyler, where he was
diagnosed and released. Although
he's been in a great deal of pain, he
should be healed in another month.
Of course, he hasn't missed a full
day of work yet.
We would like to thank our em-
ployee, Ken Bradshaw, the mem-
bers of the Rusk VFD Anthony
Holcomb and Roy Wilkinson, the
ETMC ambulance crew and the
Cherokee County Sheriffs Depart-
ment for their quick and caring
response.
Special thanks go to our family,
Bob and Connie Woodcock and
our daughter, Gina Battley, Fa-
ther Ambrose of Sacred Heart
Church and Cherno Sabe and
Roseanne, who were on the spot
with us that day. Thanks also to
our wonderful customers, friends
and church family members who
have come by, called, sent notes
and offered to help in so many
ways. We are truly fortunate to
live in such a caring community.
Larry and Colleen Woodcock
Rusk
'We The People' Have Become Deprived Of Our Rights
I completely agree with Mr. Ken-
neth White's Nov. 16 response to
Mr. Ray Cryer's letter of Nov. 9 to
the Cherokeean/Herald, Citizens
Hate and Fear Government. While
he did point out to Mr. Cryer that
big government is not the cause of
our well-being as a nation, 1 wish
to address what has not been said
about his original post.
It seems that Mr. Cryer's lack of
"KnowledgeTSehind the purpose of
the private ownership of firearms
is only surpassed by his lack of
knowledge of this mighty country's
foundation as a republic set upon
the rock of the Constitution of these
United States. He believes that
government serves the same func-
tion as the comic character Charlie
Brown's "Great Pumpkin" which
is to believe that government is
the source of the good fortune (?)
enjoyed by its citizens and that
only the existence of this benefi-
cent entity allows any prosperity
at all. How ludicrous!
When a government has ceased
to protect the lives, liberty and
property of "We the People" from
whom its executive, legislative and
judicial powers are derived and
becomes an instrument in the
hands of evil doers for their op-
pression, "We the People" have a
right to hate and fear that govern-
ment. We have not only the right,
but the obligation to demand that
the very govérnment'sworn to up-
hold the Constitution and our re-
publican form of government to
which it owes its existence answer
for its actions to the People them-
selves and either change the ways
government operates or face re-
moval by any means deemed nec-
essary by the People.
The foundations of this country
have been shaken and split by a
government dedicated to itself
rather then the people whom it
should serve. It has mutated into
becoming the master rather than
the servant. "We the People" have
had our God-given inherent and
inalienable rights under the Con-
stitution chipped and whittled
away to a point that they are in-
stead seen as privileges.
Our Constitutional form of gov-
ernment has been practically de-
stroyed in allowing Executive Or-
ders to become law, thereby usurp-
ing our Legislative as well as the
Judicial branch; not to mention
allowing the Executive branch to
create law where none exists. We
have had our only safe guarantor
for our life, liberty and property,
our right of trial by jury of our
peers corrupted by a government
system which dictates its demands
over the jury instead of allowing
the jury themselves, as provided
by Common Law, decide even if
what law(s) is broken and what
penalty shall be administered. We
have been inundated by rules op-
erating under color of law which
have no actual basis in law but
have only the appearance of law.
"We the People" have been de-
nied the right of worship of God
even to the extent that not only are
our churches licensed, but are
forced to pay fees for their very
existence. "We the People" must
obey the demands of government
which dictates what literature may
be distributed to its congregation
during an election year or face
removal of that "license" and cease
to exist as an organized assembly
"protected" by law. "We the People"
are told by government when and
where prayer may be held, who
may pray and what may be said so
that some may not become offended
by the prayer.
"We the People" have become
deprived of our rights to absolute
ownership of our properties with
unlawful statutory public policy
and mandates to serve only spe
cial interest groups. We have had
our public lands taken through
unscrupulous law disguised as
protection for the greater good and
placed under the auspices of the
United Nations. Such things must
no longer be allowed.
When even such a "short list" of
items describing the misuse of gov-
ernmental power is assembled, it
can be seen that this country is
indeed in deep trouble. This elec-
tion year has shown that a divided
nation is demanding change from
its past. While some believe that
big government is the panacea and
because those same people believe
that we are merely petulant teen-
agers who bite the hand that feeds
us if we choose to reject big govern-
ment ideologies, the truth lies far
beyond their understanding of
what this country consists and
what it could become if left to its
Constitutional freedoms and a gov-
ernment which is truly answer-
able to the People.
MIKE CHAPMAN
Longview
Mr. Chapman is a former Rusk
resident.
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