Censorship…or just don’t like me?

I’m not anyone special and I’m certainly not that smart. But I’ve kept pretty close tabs on the politics of San Francisco South or Santa Monica North, or better known as Santa Barbara. I’ve run for office a few times and had to endure the wrath of Jane Fonda, organized hippy brigades and the dirtiest of Chicago style politics, all from people who profess peace and love. For a number of years I was writing a column in a small local newspaper. The owner allowed me great leeway. I also continued to write columns and letters to the editor in the Santa Barbara News Press. For a while they were printed, then, someone black balled me. I tried for a number of years to get something printed. I wrote short pieces, long pieces, nice pieces, nasty pieces. Didn’t matter.

Below is another letter to the editor I attempted to recently get published. I was even contacted to reduce it to 250 words, which I took as a good sign. I cut it down to 249. But, somewhere in the publishing news chain, I was once again denied. I don’t think it was all that nasty and don’t have a real answer for why I’m being censored, but someone does have it our for me. I wonder if I should have my feelings hurt?

Santa Barbara News Press

Another recent letter to the editor pointed out yet again what’s wrong with this city and the country as a whole. The writer pointed out how wonderful Obama’s Inauguration was, how so many people had come together, how everyone chipped in to clean up and most importantly “when was the last time so many of us…were proud to wave the American flag?

During Clinton’s reign of shame, after turning the White House into a frat house, I was still proud to wave the American flag. I have always been and always will be. However, in less than three weeks our new president has already alerted us that the very people who want to raise our taxes, don’t pay them, that over the last two years when Democrats controlled congress they couldn’t pass a bill for the life of them, but when it comes to spending the money of the American people under the guise of a stimulus package, they’re capable of doing it overnight.

We’ve also learned with this new power, the Democrats are going to use our money to repay the people who put them in power and do what it takes to stay in power. They’re not even being sneaky about it. Just take a trillion dollars and funnel it to the unions, to ACORN who cheated for votes, shower the environmentalists with funds for what is now being called “climate change” and a myriad of other paybacks. It’s an in-your-face Chicago-style politics followed by a wave of the middle finger.

And to further secure their position, the White House is employing Californiagerrymandering tactics. By bringing control of the 2010 census into the Oval Office, the Democrats will start drawing districts like that of Lois Capps. We’ve already had to endure these kinds of politics in California for years and you can see exactly how successful it’s been: the highest tax rates, the worst schools, bulging prisons, unions run amok, a massive flood of illegal immigrants, insurance rates through the roof and on and on.

I’ve always been proud to wave the flag. And even as I watch our country become France, and even after enduring eight years of listening to the venomous hate mantra of president Bush and the endless attempts by the left to bring down this nation, I’ll always be thankful to be an American. 

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