Stand tall and proud against the COVID charade; Hogan is a flip-flopper supreme | READER COMMENTARY

Letting loved ones die alone during pandemic was devastating

Little by little, everything folks like me screamed about during COVID is being proven true. Masks were useless, six-foot distance was a farce, locking down everything tighter than a convent and denying our children attending school, prom, sports or visiting the grandparents, will take decades to repair.

Most of all, allowing our loved ones to die alone and believing a false medicine was going to solve it all will have the most devastating, lasting effect.

Although we pure bloods (no COVID jabs) were ostracized, lost our jobs and so-called friends, had family write us off, prohibited entry to some businesses, board an airplane and called super spreaders, we stand tall and proud for not falling to our knees in fear.

False evidence appears real. Americans might experience fear, but we do not drop to our knees other than to pray. Watching how quickly too many Americans dropped broke my heart and that void grew deeper as we watched the media lapdogs push the false narrative and those on their knees demanding that we join them.

Now that truth is finally allowed to be spoken, the lapdogs and powers that be are singing a different tune and asking for our forgiveness, saying they just didn’t know. I call BS. Yes, you all knew, especially the medical profession.

This Independence Day should be a national spanking of all who participated in this charade, starting with Anthony Fauci and Larry Hogan. Fauci said, “jump” and Hogan asked, “how high?” The head of the Republican Governor’s Association rolled out the red carpet and the tyrants danced all over it.

If you’re still on your knees, get your sorry tail up, remember who you are and get angry. Angry at yourself for falling for this ruse, angry at those who perpetrated this hoax, ask why and demand a price be paid.

They should lose their jobs, be prohibited from practicing their trade and when they do find employment, part of their salary or retirement fund should be doxed to a reparations fund for those damaged by COVID deception. Especially those injured by the jab and/or lost jobs.

Lady Liberty has her hand over her eyes with tears streaming down her face. Get off your knees America and stand loud, proud and tall once again. Just like 9/11, we shall never allow something like this to happen ever again.

Michelle Jefferson, Westminster

Hogan keeps changing his tune

I’ve never been a Larry Hogan fan. To me, he’s for the most part been a typical politician who, in order to make a politically expedient decision, sticks his wet finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.

That said, in order to win the gubernatorial election twice as a Republican in deep-blue Maryland from 2015 to 2023, he saw any number of his vetoes overridden in Annapolis. So I’ll give him credit where credit is due; he got my vote twice because the alternative was in my opinion worse.

Currently Hogan is running for the Senate as a “Never Trumper.” Now I’m not a big Donald Trump fan either, but my love of country far outweighs my disdain for Trump BY FAR, because I genuinely believe another four years of a Biden administration will do irreparable damage to an already deeply divided people.

But rather than doing his usual flip and supporting Trump, Hogan sadly has done an about face on the heart-based topic of abortion, stating that abortion protections are “settled law” in Maryland.

And that simply makes my case that Hogan is a flip-flopper supreme, who will walk away from his own values to get elected. This is why my ballot will remain blank for the Senate race on election day. I might change my mind if Hogan endorses Trump with yet another “flip-flop,” but I won’t hold my breath.

Dave Price, Sykesville

clinical evidence that indicates same sex attraction often develops as the result of sexual abuse and/or homosexual grooming during one’s childhood. (1)

In November 2012, when same sex marriage was approved by Maryland voters, it was by the slimmest of margins despite being strategically placed on the ballot with a very popular incumbent president seeking a second term. Same sex marriage remains very controversial. It is not the public schools’ function to entangle innocent young children in this controversy. To do so is very much part of an activist agenda.

The insidious element of this agenda is the way it seeks to normalize an ever-increasing scale of deviance. For example, in 1999 President Bill Clinton declared Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. In 2009 President Obama declared L.G.B.T. Pride Month adding bi-sexual and transgender to the mix. In 2021 President Joe Biden declared L.G.B.T.Q Month that added “queer.”

Then earlier this month, one of the speakers at the Carroll County Board of Education meeting, while advocating for an elementary school level book that addresses same sex parenting, referred to the L.G.B.T.Q.I.+ community. So what starts with a book, published in 1989, titled “Heather has two Mommies,” descends to Drag Queen Story Hour for preschoolers hosted by the local public library. Sexual deviance is a slippery slope.

Michael Hurley, Eldersburg

(1) Mark Williams, “Father-Son Incest: A Review and Analysis of Reported Incidents.” Clinical Social Work Journal 16, No. 2 (Summer 1988). 165-179. Lynda Doll et al., Self Reported Childhood and Sexual Abuse Among Adult Homosexual and Bisexual Men.” Child Abuse &; Neglect 16 (1992); 855-865.

“]Senior assistant state’s attorney has concerns with two articles

Recently, the Carroll County Times published two articles that are very concerning and seem to push a certain agenda. The more recent article, published June 20, details the use of forensic genetic genealogy in locating the suspected killer of Rachel Morin, the woman who was allegedly brutally murdered by an illegal alien in Harford County.

The article includes the headline “Technique used in Morin case is scantly regulated.” It also includes “while a powerful investigative tool, it remains largely unregulated, drawing genetic privacy concerns.”

The headline and the quote in the June 20 article are both opinions and inaccurate. Although the article goes on address Maryland statutory law regulating genealogy search warrants, it dismissively minimizes broad legal safeguards passed during the 2021 session of the Maryland General Assembly that regulate and monitor the use of genealogy databases by law enforcement.

The regulations enacted by the legislature mandate strict and stringent requirements on the use of genealogy databases and search and seizure warrants over and above the requirements for issuance of a traditional search warrant.

A genealogy search warrant is limited to crimes of murder, rape, felony sex offenses and matters of public safety and national security. Additionally, a genealogy search warrant requires specific assertions in the affidavit of the law enforcement officer that all other reasonable investigative leads have been pursued and exhausted. Finally, a genealogy search warrant must be approved by the State’s Attorney Office.

These requirements are just a portion of those set forth in statute. Although the procedure used in Morin’s case was a federal procedure, to state in a Maryland newspaper that this area of the law is “scantly regulated” is flatly misleading.

The second article of concern, published June 17, detailed police pursuits, specifically highlighting pursuits involving fatalities. The article goes into great detail regarding the facts of several of the police pursuits.

Finally, at the end of the article, it is pointed out that one of the cases highlighted was found not to be a police pursuit, and that in many other examples mentioned, officers were found to have acted lawfully and followed their department’s pursuit policy.

Why not report on police pursuits from the other angle — criminals fleeing from officers are causing dangerous and often deadly situations? How about reporting on the danger to police officers every time they pursue a criminal fleeing from a crime? Have we gotten to a point in society where we believe it is simply better to let a criminal get away instead of pursue them?

Each of these articles subtly suggest that police today go too far in doing their jobs. Certainly, I am not suggesting that law enforcement have unfettered latitude while performing their duties. I just wish that the media sometimes would report their stories from the other side — the one that has taken an oath to protect and serve the communities where they work and live.

Allan Culver
Senior Assistant State’s Attorney
Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office