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LETTER: Glad To Accept The Extremist Label

The definition of a moderate is: Not excessive or unreasonable, middle of the road, not extreme or radical, average, neither particularly good nor bad.

It is said that “those who do not stand for something will fall for anything”. I would like to take a few minutes and address a recent article by Dr. Moses (No One Asked Me But… Progress: September 22, 2010) and share my viewpoint.

If you go by Dr. Moses’ apparent definition of extremist one could include such heroes as George Washington and ALL of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and framers of our precious Constitution (who were willing to LITERALLY put their lives on the line and went to war against an oppressive nation because of their “extreme” convictions). Abraham Lincoln was willing to accept the hatred of his fellow legislators and half of a nation to bring his “extreme” beliefs of anti-slavery to a nation in turmoil and went to war for those beliefs. Ronald Reagan was so “extreme” in thought, that he believed that slashing taxes would bring this nation that was in an extreme recession, back to prosperity and bring more money into the federal coffers. History will show he was correct much to the chagrin of his detractors.

Dr. Moses is correct in that Congress is full of moderates. But it is not the moderates that get things done. Just look at the left wing extremists and what they have done over the past two to three years.

Perhaps people such as Sharon Angle and other “right wing extremists” are exactly what we need now because of the liberal extremists who now have our federal government owning automobile manufacturers, banks, our health care; all events unprecedented in American history. Lets us remember that the people who are calling her a radical are those who wanted to raise our taxes and expand government.

There is no country in the world that can take us on; either militarily or in our lifestyle. This lifestyle has allowed us to help other nations monetarily, militarily and with life saving essentials.

There are extremists who want to “take down the United States a notch or two” but the only way to do that is from within. For over two hundred years our country has relied on the Constitution to protect our freedoms and allow those with the fortitude to build businesses. Some businesses failed, that is part of the free enterprise system. Now the government is deciding who is “too big to fail” and who needs their wealth redistributed to those who are “less fortunate”.

Now our government is multi-trillions of dollars in debt (more has been spent in the past year than all of the time from Washington to the 1990’s) because we have “extremists” that believe that they can spend themselves into a balanced budget. And all we can talk about is the “extremists” on the other side that are simply trying to bring sanity to an insane world.

A “moderate” does not have the fortitude to stand up to the extreme liberals. Only a true conservative or a “right wing extremist” in the words of some, can understand and counter those who are working their hardest to change the fundamental truths of our Constitution.

For a local example of “left wing extremism” at work look at Mr. Tom Collins. He decided that we the people of Moapa Valley were not smart enough to choose our own representatives and therefore ignored the will of the people and choose his own cronies. Now we will not have that opportunity again because we have no one at the town board standing up for the voters. That my friend is “extremism” vs. “moderate”.

So for now I will accept the label “right wing extremist” right along with Washington, Lincoln and Reagan.

Scott W. King

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