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Editor:Sheriff Spruell took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Does that give him the right to interpret the constitution? The answer is "yes", he took...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I guess I forgot why we have law enforcement in Cortez, when the victim becomes the criminal and is threatened to be arrested for becoming disruptive for the fact that two officers and a...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I have an idea for folks who believe that Sheriff Spruell should try to enforce an unconstitutional gun law. Why don't you volunteer to go around your neighborhood knock on your neighbors...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I have often heard complaints about the Cortez Hospital, but my experience with them has always been excellent. They were very attentive and good with both my parents, and on Monday, I had...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:This letter in response to David Gilmour (Journal, March 26) who decided to chastise Sheriff Dennis Spruell for standing up for our civil liberties and constitutional rights. I want to...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I have been a resident of Cortez for over 40 yours. Last summer, I moved to Arizona just to see a different way of life. Recently, my family and I returned to get storage items. I feel it is...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:What a joy it is to have such a man as Sheriff Dennis Spruell in office. Why? Because he is not a robot to the "law." As Pat Requena (Journal, March 28) has rightly said, an unconstitutional...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:To prevent slaughters of our children, like those that happened in Columbine High School and in Newtown, we should be devising rational preventive measures. Instead we tend to get very...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:In early February, I wrote a letter to the editor saying no "assault" style rifle was used in this tragedy (the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.). The information provided...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Being born and raised in rural Montezuma county, I get so tired of hearing some of the opinions I read, so I think I'll quit being one of the silent majority. If you don't support the local...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Just a thought in reference to the statement made by the gentleman in last Tuesday's paper (Steven Fox, "Economics, education and Obama"): Those same states cited as having the "most...
DATE: March 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Since when does any county sheriff have legal discretionary authority to set aside, overlook or otherwise subvert state law? Since when is a rural county sheriff the sole legal arbiter of...
DATE: March 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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