Editor's note: A letter to the editor by Mr. Hamelrath, published Wednesday, referred to his political analysis. Here is that analysis.

The Jury, "The great American Voters," is out until November. They will be trying to decide if our Democratic Republic will continue to survive or go the way all great democracies of the past have gone, once they lost their will to work and defend their government. This is probably the most decisive decision "The Jury" has been faced with in my 90-year lifetime.

To start the decision-making process "The Jury" will have to go back to 2008 when the incumbent president appeared on the political scene. They will have to decide just when and where this man appeared on the stage of politics, and what was his platform for election. They will also have to determine his character, his educational base, his political achievements and his goal for the nation if elected. This may be a very hard task for "The Jury," for there is a great deal of missing information on the man. For a man who campaigned on total "transparency" his wall of "opaqueness" makes the "Berlin Wall" and "The Iron Curtain" look like a picket fence.

Let us begin with his patriotic base for our country. He had none and still does not possess the qualities that we take for granted in a presidential candidate. Most candidates enter the Presidential Arena with a goal of building the nation. His goal has been to tear us down, apologize to the world for the actions we as a nation have taken, which in many cases involved unilateral agreement with other nations. That simple feeling for God, Country and Union he totally lacks. His desire to remove God from everything our Forefathers stood for is evidenced almost daily.

The list goes on, but he covers his tracks by issuing daily statements or presidential proclamations that completely reverses anything he may have previously stated. He is a good student of human psychology. He knows we tend to remember the last thing we hear, so covering a previous statement with a new falsehood is no problem.

As a student of Constitutional Law he has learned many ways to circumvent its requirements in order to implement his agenda, and he has an agenda. He has been described as "inexperienced in the field of business" and as a leader he appears to be a sham with no specific plan. Let this not be a true evaluation of this man's abilities, for he has an agenda and the plan is evident to anyone who will take the time to analyze what he has accomplished or attempted. Every action is a move to Marxist Socialism with an increase of government control or intervention. The result is a further decline in the economic structure of the nation and more and more control of our individual lives. By his guile, sweet talking. and manipulating the facts to his advantage he has pulled the biggest scam on the American public in the history of our nation.

For almost four years our nation has been wearing his mantle of "Change." No political party if they believed in our country, be they Democrat or Republican, should support or idly stand by and witness this slow and purposeful denigration of our nation.

Let us pray the "Jury," in its final days of deliberation, will render a verdict strong and meaningful that we will not submit to a politically motivated subversion of our country.

Please do not attempt to call me unpatriotic; I served my country for 32 years, from before Pearl Harbor, where I happened to be on that fateful day, until the "Iron Curtain" dissolved and the "Berlin Wall" lay in shambles. The supposed principals of the present administration were not the ones to which we of my time swore allegiance. Wake up America.

Walter Fred Hamelrath, U.S. Navy retired, is a resident of Hayden.

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