Some OPine 'n How To Make Laconia Better - Lose The Prison

[rhogan]

I have often wondered what is happing to the United States as a country in terms of people coming form other countries. My inquiry into this question began when I returned to the United States from overseas and went to New Hampshire to visit friends. I had been exposed to many different cultures while overseas, some nice other and most did not like Americans in general because of the war and other misgoverning. In stopping in various towns in New Hampshire to visit with friends, it became apparent to me through reading the newspapers, walking around various towns, hearing from my friends and business people that, in the last 15 years, violent crime has gone up, more housing, more traffic and less of a feeling of home town USA and more to a view point of becoming an isolationist.

I will not discuss every town, but as a few examples. Laconia,NH. 20 years ago a jewel on the Nile or Lake Winnipesauke if you will. Other small lakes like Paugus Bay, Opechee, Winnisquam. This was a place where you went and felt safe. You could leave your car unlocked, let you kids play with the neighbors kids with not having to worry about their safety and leave your home unlocked if you so choose. Today Laconia and its surrounding area could be viewed as a place when you would not really consider the above mentioned. It has changed, for the worse. Laconia has a prison, for sex offenders and other convicted criminals. Once a school for the mental retarded, the city failed miserably to stave off the A$$H*!&$, in the concord legislature and the moronic governor at the time, and take the land that is vast, and developed it into something that would benefit the town. Such as a college, get the Volvo tennis back to NH or some other tennis association to build a world class tennis camp and have a sponsored event like Wimbledon does where all the pros come to play. Develop it with other events in mind. However, in true political action, they opted for a prison. A prison that could have been built in Berlin NH where a federal prison was already going in, and I reject anyone saying, you cannot have a state and federal prison in the same area, which is what some said or they said you cannot use federal funds. Folks, wake up, this is politics, something could have been worked out, Berlin wanted it ,give it to them. I have news for all the Laconia folks, you can still fight it, the governor and legislature has the power to move it. Of course the prison guards and the corrections department will want to fight it; they want to continue to expand their power, but not in Laconia. Get it out now or else it will grow and continue to have people escape; how many is Laconia up to now since it was brought in? Folks in Laconia, what will it take? Some offenders escaping running into a home and raping or killing someone to get you folks to renew the fight? The corrections folks will try to tell you, don’t worry we will request more funding and all will be well, some more razor wire and all will ok! WRONG! Talk about ancillary actions from having the prison. Who do think comes to visit these people, who follows them and stays in Laconia? Has a study been done to see how much crime has gone up with the prison their? I know, numbers can be manipulated, but it just rubs me to see this great land used by a prison!

Welfare, yes I know I will be kicked for this one, but Laconia has always been known by the locals as welfare haven. People come to town from out of the area and from afar and by some Immaculate Conception get benefits. I am for it if they need it, but not to abuse it and Laconia gets abused. This applies to the entire United States. If Bush wants my vote, then his promise of every citizen who needs a jobs will have one WOOPS, that is every person who wants, yes wants, so how many welfare people want to get off the great benefits?? I am sure some do, but some do not. Why not require work for benefits if able to do so?


Another, issue that has been creeping into this town ( Laconia )and many others like Manchester NH, Nashua NH, Portland ME and many towns across the United States is the church. Yes I know I will suffer god’s wrath if I spill the beans on the biggest secret in the United States. Many political candidates don’t want to discuss this for fear of circumcising their political careers and the church keeps a low profile. The church, every year through its various affiliations brings people from various ethnic backgrounds in the United Sates and supplants them in various cities. Now, in NH cases more then 5000, yes that five with three zeros, have been supplanted. Why do I speak of this? Because we are in the land of the free! Many of these people then in turn try to get their relatives to come in live and so on and so on. SO WHAT? In an age with terrorism, increase times of a hard economy, less jobs (don’t let the employment number fool you folks, every year around summer time these number go up because of college grads), more crime from these supplanted people, you do the math. The church can be held responsible for more then a quarter of a million foreign people with questionable backgrounds coming to the United States. Stay with me on this. Does the church subject these people to a full field background check with references, a psychological test to verify they will be able to “ hack it” in a different culture and be good people, do they give a polygraph to verify their history? I will bet they do nothing close to this. So, let me play the other side. Hey. Lets invite them all in, so what if they have a terrorist connection, so what if they might be a rapist, murderer, criminal, so what if they are psychological derange and will commit a crime, so what if their friends or relatives, who might also be bad people, eventually come over? Thanks to the church, we salute you.

In the aforementioned, this really falls under our boarder control, the same boarder control that to this day, I could come from Canada, and with very little planning, a map quest map, some limited supplies, walk across the Canada boarder or Mexico boarder for that matter with not even seeing anyone and gain entry. The church needs to work out a program with the United States boarder patrol to institute the background checks, psychological test and polygraph to verify these people. With regards to boarder control, get a clue, use the military to supplement the boarder patrol who are out manned by many people crossing our boarders. The politicians need to institute a rigorous penalty for those who are caught. Lets face it, if Mexico was so great, they would not be coming here, enough said.


After coming back not only to the United States but to a hometown USA and now “ Inside Looking Out “, I have to say it’s not good. I do not claim any Indian heritage that puts me on this land before anyone else. I do not claim any pedigree. I am not a racist, bigot, or isolationist. What I am is a United States born citizen who is concerned that the United States is failing in its boarder policies and its ability to control politicians, welfare entitlements and prisons systems. The people of these small towns need to fight for their rights and what is right for the town. I would like to have a positive outlook for Laconia, but SNAFU’s like the Laconia prison, welfare issues and the church, the example set by Laconia and to what is happing too many small towns USA should be the wake up call of a lifetime.