TO THE EDITOR:
“God’s children are not for sale.” That is true from conception to the elderly. In the faith-based blockbuster movie “Sound of Freedom,” the focus is on child trafficking. However, human trafficking involves both genders of varying ages. Human trafficking is a business that generates $150 billion annually with an estimated 28 million victims in forced labor and sex trafficking. Historically, some 12 million Blacks from Africa were sold as slaves. Of the 340,000 unaccompanied minors who crossed our southern border in the last two years, HHS has lost some 85,000. A person can be sold multiple times a day for sex. But that income evaporates if the female victim becomes pregnant. Is there an illicit financial reason that so many advocate legalized abortion until the moment of birth? Is there an unstated link between the “grooming” of our children with materials in schools and public libraries that many parents describe as pornographic and unfit for children? The film is not without controversy. At this point, the claims of “misinformation” have been refuted. Threats causing the evacuation of movie theaters showing this film have lessened. Ballard recited Mark 9:42, “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.” Please visit https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/sound-of-freedom/ for related information.
Dr. Phyllis E. VanBuren
Clearwater, MN
TO THE EDITOR:
A couple weeks ago the Patriot published a letter of mine stating that I was looking forward to Xcel’s iron-air battery experiment. I need to amend that. Not long after my letter was printed, the Star Tribune printed an article stating that the PUC approved Xcel’s battery project and while they weren’t going to tell us the total cost of the project, it would be costing residential customers an extra 30 cents per month for 10 years. Wait, what? I thought the $20 million was going to cover the total cost! 0.30 per month for 10 yrs. for 3.2 million residential customers is $115,200,000, plus $20 million means at least $135 million to build these two battery farms, one here in MN, the other in CO. (Why not just build one to see if it works first?) Plus I learned from Isaac Orr’s, 7/7/23 article on these batteries that their efficiency is so bad that you have to input 2.63 MW hrs of electricity into one to get 1.0 MW h out! It looks like I may have been a little too quick to positively judge on this.
Bret R. Collier
Big Lake, MN
