Daily Archives: June 11, 2012

Loving memories

Your recent articles about Alzheimers were sad yet beautiful. Victims leave beautiful, loving and caring memories. Alzheimers robs many people of everything.

I am without a husband. Fredrik Malmborg lived until December 31, 2011. He was 81.

His Alzheimers began in 2004. It was a slow, painful decline. He was a school teacher, remembered by many. I was the one who sang to him up to a few months before his passing. He never complained. We leaned on each other; best friends do that. Only those who have lost relatives to Alzheimers can comprehend the pain. Speeding up the studies and cure of the horrid disease certainly should have precedence over fighting wars. We can pray, someday, tax dollars will go to valuable causes.

Jessie Malmborg

Fort Kent

Regarding the May 25th article False Statement by Cynthia Dill accusing David Trahan of misstating her position on gun control. She claims her statements consistently support the Second Amendment.

I do not know David or Cynthia. What I do know is that Senator Dill chooses to avoid her stand on the Second Amendment by using the excuse that jobs and the economy are much more important. Then goes on to blame the NRA for passage of laws that support Second Amendment rights. Then states there is a difference between a vigilante and a sportsman. I would like to remind the Senator that the Second Amendment does not mention vigilantes, sportsmen or hunting. It clearly states the right to keep and bear arms.

Regarding her statement allowing Mainers to take the law into their hands during an emergency: While our police departments are trained professionals, they cannot always be there when you need them, especially in rural areas. Human beings have a hard-wired program for self protection; for fighting back; for safeguarding their families and communities. As Americans thats why we preserve armed self-defense as part of our Second Amendment protections. Gun control provides overwhelming advantage to criminals; their unarmed victims

cannot fight back.

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Saturday, June 9, 2012: Alzheimer’s, the east-west highway and Cynthia Dill

Pro-choice advocates once argued that a womans decision to undergo a medical procedure should be a private-health matter between her and her doctor. But health concerns arent only about physical health.

Emotional, mental, and psychological states are also health issues when inconvenience, and/or anxiety (including anxiety over the sex of her unborn child) are considerations in her decision to have an abortion.

And the issue, originally framed as a womans right to have a life-saving procedure, has become a constitutional right to have an abortion for any health-related rationale.

If five Justices with advanced law degrees can find abortion-rights hidden within the Constitution, then gun-rights is apparent to anyone with a pulse.

When we come to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, we clearly see A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

This is explicit language that states what the federal government shall not do in respect to a specific right of the people.

But the Left opposes applying this Right to the people.

Theyre the same people who were thrilled to have discovered within the implied langauge a womans right to abortion on demand, even though the Tenth Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Supreme Court has no power to infringe the states power to regulate abortion.

Since Illinois anit-gun-rights legislators choose to ignore the explicit language of the Constitution when crafting Illinois gun laws, the Supreme Court should rule and deem gun rights a private-security matter between law-abiding citizens and criminals.

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LETTER: 2nd Amendment goes beyond home