The new editorial page of the Hi-Desert Star is an improvement
over the old mindless insult machine of the past. The Word on the street section has a broader
cross section of both local people and their sometimes-divergent opinions. It would be helpful if the reader is informed
as to the life work of those giving the opinion. Are they plumbers or teachers, store clerks
or truck drivers, government employees or small business persons, day traders or
panhandlers? Such a revelation would
help the reader understand where opinion likely originates without further
contributing to the political polarization that has infected America.
The new “Our View” section has at last given the paper an
opportunity to put meaningful local and national issues before the readers. One would assume that in doing so, the paper
hopes to stimulate intelligent feedback and an open discussion of possible fixes. The January 26 “Our View” section is entitled,
“It’s time to admit we have a problem”.
This opinion rightly calls the folk of our community to band together to
positively address the scourge of drug abuse infecting both our families, the local
community and the nation.
OK, we have a monstrous problem, our children and young
adults are dying and becoming virtual life vegetables. My community is highly infected, rumors
abound about our young dying amid mysterious circumstances. The days of “just say no” and a war on drugs
enforcement efforts seem totally inadequate solutions to our present problem. If tragedy has found your family, this is not
the time to hide in shame, it is time to stand up and demand change.
Why are our law enforcement officers overwhelmed with this
problem? Why is heroin as cheap on the streets as cigarettes? Why are our public schools so ineffective
educating our male students? Why can we
regulate smokes away from our young and at the same time open our borders to
the drug peddlers of the world? It makes
no sense because our young are being destroyed by the open borders cartel of
the political Democratic and socialist radical left. They say to you and I, our politics is more
important than the life of your son or daughter.
Should you and I accept this bull, should the Hi-Desert Star? Our paper must have an expanded view that is
relevant to our everyday circumstance in real America and not some pie in the
sky political theory. Hi-Desert Star,
are you afraid to be relevant and stand with your people?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca
