I have to respond to the free speech letter about the closing of the bathrooms at Fayette County Baseball fields to correct the facts. The Fayette County Baseball Board is a group of volunteers who give up three Saturdays for sign-ups, two Saturdays for training, two Saturdays for try-outs and drafts, eight Saturdays, and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for game play.

I am amazed at how long it has taken for Congress to get around to creating a bill designed to address the illegal immigration issue. I am also amazed at the push-back by any American citizen.

I have noticed that the state DOT has put up yellow street signs telling where roads are and where to turn for these roads. I think that having these signs is a bad idea.

“Justice isn’t served until victims are.”

Last week was National Crime Victims’ Rights Week where crime victims, survivors and those who serve them joined together across America to promote victims’ rights and services.

For the past several years I have watched as fighting became the norm for almost every government entity in Fayette County, especially the Fayette County Commission. As long entrenched groups fought to maintain and expand control, the same old statements were made over and over again in its defense.

The members of the Senior Adult Council of Peachtree City would like to respond to a letter recently printed in this column. The letter was apparently written by a senior who is “tired of broken promises” concerning an expansion to the Gathering Place.

I don’t think it’s fair that the schools up North are in school for 6 hours, while J.C. Booth is at school for 7 hours and 40 minutes.

Nice to see my name in print again [Free Speech, April 12, 2006]. Two things need to be said.

One, I have a piece of paper that says I am not guilty. How about you, anonymous author?

I was deeply saddened to read in the newspaper that the City Council of Peachtree City would even consider restricting speech in public government meetings. Knocking public speech down to just two and three minutes is a sign that the council perceives the opinions of the people to be of no consequence.

Despite a reputation as a conservative community, Fayette County has quite a number of thespians living here. These thespians are not quiet about who they are, either; some are quite proud to flaunt their thespian preferences.

After reading Mr. Bishop’s letter I could not think of anything else but the dismal lack of understanding in our country on how the economy really works. First of all, Mr. Bush’s rich buddies may exist but they do not control the price of anything. The law of supply and demand dictates the price.

In response to Mike Boylan’s article, “Another year; another book written by MHS English students,” I am so impressed with the way teachers Burnette and Lovett have challenged their students with worthwhile English assignments.

Here is a statement by George Washington that should be sent to every elected official in city, county, state and national government. These officials should read it every morning before the day’s task of governance is begun.

On the front page of the April 19, 2006, The Citizen is an article of “political analysis” by John Thompson entitled: “Who Wants to Run in ‘06.”

A recent article highlighted the changing face of the population in our county. A topic that was not addressed in this article was the response to this change by our public schools. My concern is that there has not been a significant response at the county level.

Peter Duran engages in a couple of typical errors in his clarion call to science over superstition. First is the notion that this century is the first where the scientific method, or even logical thought, holds sway in determining truth.

[Recently] Peter Duran proclaimed the popular view of religious tolerance in today’s world.

I believe this view can be fairly summarized as follows: Religion is no more than personal belief or opinion. Since it is merely one person’s belief versus another’s, it is unacceptable to consider your belief superior to another person’s belief. Therefore all religions should be considered equally valid.

I want to urge all Fayette Countians to remember the Confederate soldiers from the county.

In the past year I have been researching the burial places of those who came home and those who didn’t.

Editor’s note: The Citizen filed an Open Records request with the Fayette County Commission seeking any audit or accounting related to the ongoing controversy between the county and the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department. The dispute and subsequent lawsuit involve the sheriff’s receipt and expenditure of money received through the federal drug assets forfeiture program. The following is the reply from the attorneys representing the county.

Dr. Dial, I find it sad that the only thing you got from reading “The Da Vinci Code” was that Jesus Christ’s deity was in question.

Earl Tilford criticizes the Presbyterian Church and the professor who recently organized the Princeton Seminary conference on torture for referring to the “unforgivable horror in Abu Ghraib” and likens the instances of torture there to fraternity and sorority pranks, (“Pow’r in the Blood,” April 12.)

I just filled up my vehicle this morning and I can only hope that some day the United States will become as smart as Brazil.

I’m retired now. Worked over 38 years with Western and Delta. Lots of experiences, and lots of inside details of workers and company squabbles and labor union strife.

My husband would be extremely embarrassed if he knew this letter was about him. He has always been a very modest guy, despite being a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force for 10 years and an impeccable 20 years of service, as a pilot for Delta Air Lines. I am quite proud of my husband, but I sincerely request that you do not publish my name.

Am I missing something here? The Airline Pilot’s Association (ALPA), the union representing the Delta pilots has agreed to a three-man panel to arbitrate their dispute with Delta. Now, ALPA says that the Delta pilots will strike if the panel rules in Delta’s favor and their contract is rejected.

We are former residents of Peachtree City. My wife, Carol, and I raised four boys in this wonderful community and have not forgotten this place, even though we’ve recently relocated to the mountains of Jasper, Ga.

I am a reservations agent in Tampa, Fla., and I thought that it might be beneficial to express to you what many of us on the front lines feel about the pilots’ position regarding a strike.

I would like to share my opinion of the Delta Air Lines situation. I worked for Delta for 10 years, the last two in revenue management, and left less than six months ago.

I was about to write a letter in answer to Police Chief James Murray’s casual dismissal of our problems in Village Park in John Munford’s article in the March 31 Citizen and before I could get started the April 5 Citizen arrived and there was this wonderful passionate letter from Stephen Allen who really summed things up far better than I could.

The recent letter about the supposed “plight of the elderly whites” living in Village Park was very upsetting to many of our homeowners.