- October 26, 2024
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Dear Editor:
It's voting time again. Being a 91-year-old Navy veteran, college grad, NRA member conservative, it doesn't take me long to decide which Republican to vote for. When it comes to choosing which constitutional amendment to vote for it takes two seconds. I vote against all of them.
Having everyone vote on changing a constitution is a perfect example of the quote, "Democracy is nothing more than mob rule where 51% take away the republican rights of the other 49%." Only in the case of Florida constiutional amendments it's 60% and 40%. In a republic which this country is supposed to be, we elect qualified people (if we can find them) to write, pass and enforce laws.
In Florida, someone came up with a way to pass some very weird laws by letting the unwashed masses vote on everything from pig crates, smoking reefer, killing babies, limiting class size, buying useless swampland which allows the elected government to say "it's not our fault; you people voted for it."
There are three amendments that should never be passed — Amendments 2, 3 and 4, but they will be. Amendment 3 makes it legal to purchase, possess and use marijuana. The pot growers say this amendment will give the schools billions in sales tax. The best argument I've heard for making grass legal came from a sheriff who said, "If this passes, crime will go down." Why not? If we decriminalize shoplifting, car stealing, wife or husband beating and politicians taking bribes, crime would really go down.
Amendment 4 allows abortion. I'm just glad that they have not figured out that us old people are useless and using up resources that young people want. Vote No; make the government do its job.
Douglas R. Glover
Palm Coast
