Speak Out 10/4/11

Change the

channel

What has happened with television? No, this is not a complaint about our local cable TV, but the Discovery Channel has a new program called, "American Underworld." Tonight's issue was "how to steal a car in America and profit off of it." Now, mind you, this purported photojournalist that is doing the show for the Discovery Channel is supposed to be a highly rated man, and yet, he's using his first amendment rights to hide the actual criminals who are bragging about never having been caught. While your car is on a selection list and he steals them, hacks them, and resells them. That's right. And, the Discovery Channel is putting this on and the American insurance industry, police and no one, but no one is smart enough to be involved and stop this -- neither the criminal nor the photojournalist for glorifying auto theft. That's all I saw about in the program was how smooth, slick and efficient these criminals were. Is that what we are calling reality TV now days?

I know, you could say, change the channel if you don't like it, but what they're showing costs us billions every year. Crime is crime. I don't want it happening to you as well as me. But then again, think about it just a little bit before putting these photojournalists in such highest esteem. They're doing us, the real people, no service.

Vehicle owners, wake up

Wake up, vehicle owners! The Missouri Department of Revenue does not always send out renewals according to the Poplar Bluff License Office, so therefore you run the risk of having a non-valid plate, which could cause you to be fined or cost $5 at the license bureau. I'm writing the governor. This makes the second time this happened. The other vehicles I've got a renewal slip. Thank you.

Give a little, too

While many across America support Israel, there is now a concerted effort to, in my words, destroy Israel simply from the fact that we no longer support the tenet that what the U. N. gives, the U. N. can take away. Sadly, ask yourself this. Why have none of the other Arab nations in any proximity to Israel offered the Palestinians land to set up their own state? Ask yourselves that! Particularly when the Muslims and the Palestinians that are living in Israel enjoy a true democracy. Something they don't receive in any of the Arab states. So ask yourselves that the next time you want to push Israel back to any of the borders of '67 and make themselves so weakened and indefensible that they will never stand a chance with the Arabs.

Remember, the U. N. started this mess by giving Israel that land. Don't you think it's time that the Arabs stepped up a little bit and gave a little also?