To the Editor:

Redundancy in reporting results in mediocracy. I recall the tale of the boy repeatedly crying “wolf” to garner the prescribed reaction and the town folks stopped believing him. I view this as a prime example of the continual and tiresome attack on one duly elected law enforcement official. The wolf in the tale actually did appear, but in the case of mimicry and malicious reporting by local media, the wolf may have just limped off and died of starvation. Reasonably intelligent people will read the same rhetoric for just so long and then will no longer pay attention. People who follow the malicious intent of this reporting also get painted with the same brush and appear clown-like, jumping up and down with their “not my sheriff” signs. Better yet are the signs that tout following the laws when they have no idea what the laws really are. This is an overwhelming indication of ignorance. Let us clarify the definition of ignorance, which is not knowing a subject, and stupidity, which is knowing a subject but continuing down the road to idiocy anyway. Believing that the supremacy of thousands of conflicting federal laws which continually change or just pop up at the whim of some hired agency overpower the constitutional rights of the people borderlines ignorance/stupidity. If they want to be ruled by thousands of conflicting and suppressing laws, then just stand there and let the feds take over their lives, herding them like sheep into the paths set forth by some Washington-based politicians. Reading or listening to the government-led news media will lead you to believe that the president knows better than you on how to raise your sheep. He will let his ten thousands of immigrants show you what sheep are really for. Try reading our history about proud heritage and “we the people.” The government was to be led by the people, not the reverse.

Judy Kerr

Canyon City