Letters to the Editor - April 10, 2013

The phrase “procedural due process” refers to the aspects of the Due Process Claus that apply to the procedure of arresting and trying persons who have been accused of crimes and to any other government action that deprives an individual of life, liberty, or property. Procedural due process limits the exercise of power by the state and federal governments by requiring that they follow certain procedures in criminal and civil matters. In cases where an individual has claimed a violation of due process rights, courts must determine whether a citizen is being deprived of “life, liberty, or property,” and what procedural protections are “due” to that individual.

No matter what name the state holds we are still the United States of America. Due process and chain of command are still in effect. Not only are the laws and an American right, it is also respectful.

Why should any Prosecutor go outside of these guidelines that have been set forth by our forefathers and dictate without going through due process and chain of command?

Therefore, I ask why did our County Attorney not know the DUE PROCESS. Why did she go forth and suspend our best officer in Mineral County and in my opinion the best officer to do the job here in Superior and the district it covers. And why is it that our Sheriff wasn’t notified of this action until after the fact.

Have the charges against the officer been factually proven? Courts and arbitrators across the United States have utilized a variety of standards of proof in analyzing disciplinary decisions, varying from preponderance of the evidence in actions less than discharge to the higher standard of clear and convincing evidence in discharge cases, to proof beyond a reasonable doubt in cases that involve criminal allegations. However, the proof generally required, in cases involving the revocation of a professional license, is the standard of clear and convincing evidence.

She suspended our officer? Was this right? This along with a lot of other questions will be asked of other officials. One question will be his rights.

The County Attorney needs to reimburse our officer with a new TV for he has worn his out.

Our County Attorney needs to formally apologize to our officer and the Sheriff. He will run his office and you run yours.

Allen L. Caldwell,

Superior, MT

The National GOP establishment’s sheer HATRED for those of us who truly believe in liberty, limited government, and constitutional principles is not hard to understand when you realize that the National GOP establishment has been neo-conned by globalist, Trotsky Marxism for many decades.

Most ‘grassroots republicans’ truly don’t understand what the GOP establishment promotes is Big - Global - Government [read U.N.], the antithesis to our founding constitutional principles; and sadly too, ‘grassroots republicans’ can’t articulate those foundational principles of the American Republic. If they did, we would not have had the 9-9 conflict in the SCRCC convention April 6 here in Sanders County. We would not have duly elected committee members sending proxies to important meetings; they would be fully participating and not perennially absent.

How is it that those responsible for the dissolution of our Sanders County Republican Central Committee in the Fall of 2010 are now back, attempting a take-over and why? If they truly held the republican principles of freedom, liberty, limited government, and self determination in their hearts, wouldn’t they have applauded the actions of those who reorganized and resurrected the Sanders County Republican Central Committee in 2011?

Would they have flocked to our meetings and lifted the wings of our efforts these past months. After all, those efforts were to benefit all Republicans in Sanders County, not a select clique. Where have those notably absent for the past 2 years been hiding?

I participate in the Sanders County Republican Central Committee not for prestige or position or power. I attend and participate because republican principles mean something to me; they are THE precious ideals of a free and productive American culture; I participate because liberty and freedom are valuable and dear to me and must be defended at all costs. Tyranny needs to be expunged from human cultures everywhere, including here in private as well as public institutions.

Lark Chadwick,

Thompson Falls