Beck serves mammon

The only dream Glenn Beck has is to make more money by entertaining angry and scared people. Beck panders to people’s fear fueled by race, religion and extreme politics. Beck rewrites history by asserting that the United States was founded on religious values. Although many of the original colonists came to escape religious persecution, I was taught that King George was overtaxing his colony. The real tea party was over taxes, not religion or race. The founders were unhappy with taxation without representation and formed a constitutional republic.

Perhaps Beck should look to the practice of exploiting and killing others in the name of God as his Christian value. Like England, we have sent occupying troops all over the world to wage war for our national interests. Where is the honor in killing people because they have oil we need to fuel our economy? Americans worship money more than God. We haven’t turned away from God. We are using his name to gain wealth and dominate others.

We decry Muslims for their theocracy and then boast of our religious foundations. Our goal is to make more money and we ask God (in every political speech) to bless our efforts.

Pete Scobby

Newport

I am very pleased with the quality of many candidates running for election this fall. In particular, in the race for Spokane County auditor, Leonard Christian brings a high level of competence (years of experience in the U.S. Air Force as an auditor) and a high degree of integrity to the important position. And, I say important because the auditor position counts the votes, and we need an elected official that can implement high standards in the electoral process.

Please consider Leonard Christian for Spokane County auditor in November.

David Moses

Spokane