Letter to the Editor

Editor:

As a native of Goshen, I'm proud and surprised the the only protest of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan can be found weekly on a street corner in Goshen. [malinda: I'm not sure who the group is....]

Nowhere else in my travels of viewing of TV is there protest. Yes, you heard a few from the left wing Democrats, but the religious libertarians are silent. Vietnam War protests were everywhere, religious, communist, socialist and the ordinary people spoke up. Now the religious right is using gay baiting, lack of protections from terrorists and morality.

What is moral in killing women and children, which on Middle East satellite TV number 100,000? American news is so silent on these figures.

I was a Barry Goldwater conservative during his run for president that brought the conservative movement to the Republicans. He would turn over in his grave where the Republicans have taken this movement, taking away people's rights to a trial, and imprisonments, and sent back to their home countries.

May these protests expand to the religious, who see no morality about war. During Vietnam the Mennonite were way ahead on war being immoral, but they are now silent.