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The same Circuit Court Attorney who recently released from jail 35 domestic terrorists who burned and looted downtown St, Louis, is now seeking to indict the McCloskeys. Late last week, authorities armed with a search warrant, seized the rifle that Mark McCloskey was shown holding during the confrontation.His wife's pistol was already in the possession of their attorney.Both weapons were legally owned by the couple. And look what is happening in other cities, such as Portland and Chicago with riots, looting, assaults, and murders escalating out of control.And the report is out now about the situation involving the burning down of the Minneapolis police station.

Apparently, at least 13 officers were inside the building at the time it was attacked. Some wrote what they thought might be final texts to family members and loved ones.These officers feared they would be killed.Ordered to stand down to protesters, some of them had carefully counted their ammunition to make sure they would have bullets for themselves to avoid being beaten to death.

Our Constitution protects free speech, assembly, and peaceful protests. These are cherished rights. But the First Amendment does not give license to demonstrators to transform themselves into criminals who engage in acts of violence or other lawless conduct.As Leo Terrell stated, this must be stopped, and it must be stopped NOW!And in the St. Louis case that may be happening with word from Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt that he considers the action by the Circuit Court Attorney as a case of "Making politically motivated decisions not based on law." AMEN!

Now to close on a humorous note:A prince was put under a spell so that he could speak only one word each year.If he didn't speak for two years, the following year he could speak two words, and so on. One day he fell in love with a beautiful lady. He refrained from speaking for two whole years so that he could call her "My Darling." But then he wanted to tell her he loved her, so he waited 3 more years. At the end of these five years, he wanted to ask her to marry him, so he waited another four years. Finally, as the ninth year of silence ended, he led the lady to the most romantic place in the Kingdom and said, "My Darling, I love you! Will you marry me?"and the lady said, "Pardon?"

Have a really great day.!

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Letters from Readers| Florida Times-Union

Democratic Party is moving

the nation into socialism

In 1944, Norman Thomas, six-time presidential party candidate for the Socialist Party of America, said that the American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.

However under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened.

Today Democratic Party socialists are widely embedded in our government at all levels. They include Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a majority in Congress and key civil service officials.

They proudly proclaim that, if elected, they will transform America into a socialist nation.

Our country is now engaged in a war for total control of America: capitalism vs. socialism. If we vote for Democratic Party socialists in November we shall join nations that are run by socialists and communists.

The only group large enough to defeat socialism at the ballot box is the Republican Party.

If Americans do not turn out to vote for President Donald Trump and the Republicans we will not save our cherished Land of Liberty.

Liberty lost will never be restored! God bless America.

Jane Kenny, St. Augustine

John Lewis was America at

its best. Trump? Not so much

When world leaders and their citizens watched as a horse-drawn caisson covering the flag-draped coffin containing the remains of civil rights legend and Congressman John Lewis cross the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, they watched America at its best.

They were honoring a man who 50-some years ago attempted to walk across the same bridge with hundreds of fellow Black Americans demonstrating for civil rights, knowing that Alabama State Police were waiting with clubs and dogs to attack them.

America can admit when we are wrong. President Donald Trumps refusal to visit the bier of Lewis while he was in state at the U.S. Capitol shows the world America at its worst.

A small-minded, thinned-skinned, petty, egotistical, self-proclaimed leader of the free world is ensuring he will never be remembered with any reverence when his time comes.

Rick Mansfield, Ponte Vedra Beach

To improve relations, media

should stop mentioning race

The vast majority of American citizens would like to see much better racial relations in our country, especially between Blacks and whites.

To this end, I suggest that the news media should stop referring to race in the news.

No useful purpose is served by mentioning the race of individuals involved in any event whether it be crimes, sports, entertainment, etc.

If the individual in the newsworthy event was not black, then race would not be mentioned.

In my opinion, this type of reporting the news only stirs the pot of distrust and hatred.

Roderick Schlosser, Jacksonville

Note to readers: The Times-Unions longtime policy is to mention race when it is relevant to a story. Editorial Page Editor Mike Clark

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Curry was correct not to

raises taxes in pandemic

Mayor Lenny Currys proposal to keep the city budget and our property tax rates the same as the previous year is responsible.

Local families and the business community have taken an economic beating during the pandemic. Now is not the time to raise taxes.

Due to government shutdowns, businesses have lost substantial revenues. Small businesses need more help than government bureaucracies as The New York Times reported that more than 40 percent of the nations 30 million small businesses could close permanently in the next six months because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Even in this current dire situation for Jacksonvilles taxpayers, there are those that continue to argue for tax increases. One of the common claims is that Jacksonvilles taxes are too low and that Jacksonville does not spend enough on city government compared to rival cities. This is misguided. To be fair, Jacksonvilles tax rate is lower, and should be lower, because it has the benefit of consolidated government.

For example, having one police agency in lieu of 31 municipalities like Broward County saves Jacksonville a lot of money. The same goes for the fire, building, public works and all the other consolidated departments that allow Jacksonville to be vastly more efficient.

Not raising taxes at this critical time in our citys history while businesses are struggling is of utmost importance. The city leaders have a duty to the people to smartly set tax rates as well as to properly manage existing tax revenues. Doing so will bolster economic activity and create a better business environment. Only a profitable business community will have the money to hire and invest and ultimately to pay the taxes to sustain quality city services.

Bill Spinner, builder-developer, Jacksonville

Norman Thomas quote was bogus,

and so was writers logic

A recent letter railed against creeping socialism in the U.S, utilizing a bogus quote from former Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas that predicted Americans would adopt socialism under the name of liberalism. The letter implies that any public policy called liberal is just a cover for socialism. The purported Thomas quote lends authority to the warning.

Thomas did not make any such claim. Both Politifact and Snopes conducted exhaustive searches for the quote through Thomas writings and speeches online as well as through a curator of Thomas archives at the New York Public Library. The quote does not appear anywhere in Thomas works.

If federal programs that directly affect peoples lives is a definition of socialism, then rail against Medicare, Social Security, federal tax mortgage interest deductions, federal relief after natural disasters and the myriad other federal programs that redirect tax dollars fromgovernment coffers to our pockets. The problem, then, is not liberalism but every one of us, conservative and liberal.

Richard Birdsall, Jacksonville

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Experts in public health and epidemiology have driven policy making during the COVID-19 pandemic. How much should we trust experts? Critics dismiss Republicans who voice distrust of experts as anti-science. Yet even experts know very little about complex economies and societies.

Frustration with experts does cross party lines. New Yorks Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo recently remarked of experts forecasts of hospital usage, They were all wrong.

The Wisdom of Crowds argument, wonderfully explained by James Suroweicki, provides a first reason for doubt. Numerous seemingly poorly informed opinions can be remarkably wise. Mr. Suroweicki relates a story from British scientist Francis Galton about a contest at a country fair in 1906. Nearly 800 people paid sixpence to guess the weight of an ox (after being slaughtered and dressed); the average was only one pound off.

The theory of efficient financial markets illustrates another reason for skepticism. An old joke was that darts thrown at the stock page were as reliable as a brokers recommendations. Why? Stock prices quickly incorporate all available information. With all information priced, a stock price is as likely to go up as down. The market can be consistently beaten only with inside information.

The central planning of socialism represents the most thorough application of expertise to an economy. Proponents thought that scientific socialism would replace the chaos and waste of the market with rationally ordered economic activity. Only a handful of economists in the 1930s and 1940s, notably Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, argued coherently that socialism would fail.

Socialism failed in part due to the different nature of truths in the physical and social sciences. Truth in the physical sciences in general and timeless: water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and boils at 212 degrees. Truth in economics depends on time and place. Are trains the best way to travel between American cities? True in the latter half of the 1800s, but now flying and driving dominate.

Another factor is the subjective value of goods and services, meaning based on the wants, needs, and desires of consumers. Goods are valuable because people will pay money for them. People differ greatly in their wants and needs, making it nearly impossible to predict what will be valuable, as pet rocks from the 1970s and the variety of videos on YouTube with millions of views illustrate.

Experts are disadvantaged on economic questions. Truths cannot be learned from a textbook, may not hold everywhere (or anywhere tomorrow), and depend on idiosyncratic consumer preferences.

The other part of the argument against socialism is the miraculous degree of coordination in markets. Thousands of products from around the world are available in a grocery store without preordering a week in advance. The times we cant get what we want, like the recent toilet paper shortage, stand out.

By contrast, central planning in the former Soviet Union produced empty shelves. People would wait in line for hours to buy goods. Russians would join lines without even asking what people were waiting for.

No one would hold a high school dance without a committee to plan the event. Yet the market economy has no one in charge, no one with the power to command others. Coordination occurs voluntarily and is called spontaneous order. And the market does not merely repeat what was done yesterday, it offers improvements too. No one ordered Mark Zuckerberg to start Facebook, he just decided to try.

Politicians rely on experts to devise policies because America has, in Abraham Lincolns words, a government for the people. In America, restrictions on our freedom can be justified only if they make us as opposed to the rulers better off.

Politicians consequently seek out the experts willing to justify policies. Economists who do not understand economic knowledge, subjective value, and spontaneous order will offer unrealistic claims about how government will improve our lives. Such experts exhibit what Professor Hayek called, The Fatal Conceit. We should not trust experts who are unaware of the limits of their expertise.

Daniel Sutter is the Charles G. Koch Professor of Economics with the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University. The opinions expressed in this column are the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Troy University.

I am the Charles G. Koch Professor of Economics with the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University.

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The Communist Party USA is a working class organization founded in 1919 in Chicago, IL.

The Communist Party stands for the interests of the American working class and the American people. It stands for our interests in both the present and the future. Solidarity with workers of other countries is also part of our work. We work in coalition with the labor movement, the peace movement, the student movement, organizations fighting for equality and social justice, the environmental movement, immigrants rights groups and the health care for all campaign.

But to win a better life for working families, we believe that we must go further. We believe that the American people can replace capitalism with a system that puts people before profit socialism.

We are rooted in our country's revolutionary history and its struggles for democracy. We call for "Bill of Rights" socialism, guaranteeing full individual freedoms.

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