Try peace and love (Major Barf Alert)

Ventura County Star ^ | 7/7/2009 | Kathi Smith

[Signalman]

This country is constantly made great by people who are kind, generous and good-hearted. If there are angry, greedy or stingy people in Ventura County, they should try to hide that as best they can.

Love our country, lift it up and make it a better place. Love our president, lift him up in your prayers and help him be the best he can be. This country will continue to become great if people will see the good in each other, even the good in others who are different.

Take the toxic anger and hate in your heart and give it up for peace and love. Too bad there wasn’t something positive for you to do in the community, instead of making the Fourth of July sour and bitter for the patriots who just want to joyously celebrate our freedom on Independence Day.

— Kathi Smith, Ojai

[Signalman]

Today's Ventura County Star had a number of letters criticizing the July 4th Tea Parties. Here's one of them. I just had to share it with my fellow FReepers. Peace and Love, everyone!

[Tanniker Smith]

Love our president, lift him up in your prayers

Sorry, that would violate the Left's separation of Church and State.

[SES1066]

I wonder how this letter writer felt about the “Pink Ladies / Cindy Sheehan” protests against G.W.Bush? Why do I bother asking?

[Brett66]

Sounds like she’s angry at those people, and hateful.....

[Ballygrl]

Wow, liberal stupidity continues.

[Billthedrill]

Too bad this letter is about six years too late. The author was too busy hating at that point.

[VeniVidiVici]

[Pinkbell]

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Far out. man!

[matginzac]

Thanks - my brother is a resident of Camarillo Sprgs and it’s always fun to read ltrs from nutty CAers. Add these to the idiots idolizing MJ and you guys in CA are definitely screwed, for sure....

[Commander X]

“Take the toxic anger and hate in your heart and give it up for peace and love.”

Okay...let me get my gun first!

[Niteranger68]

She talks a lot and says nothing. Life has a way of making prey out of people like this.

[ArmyTeach]

Hey, Kati! The 4th of July marks the day when traitors to the crown declared their Independence. It was deadly serious, and they knew it well. It was a day when common citizens took up the call to liberty against coercion and tyranny. Men (and women) dedicated ‘their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor’ to the cause. It resulted in years of bitter battle and bloodshed, heroism and determination, heartache, hardship and grief, and ultimate victory against the greatest military power of that day. It was not a 1776 version of Woodstock; it was not about fireworks, peace and love, picnics and fun in the sun...

I get a little passionate about this because my some-kind-of cousin multiple generations ago wrote those words. No big deal; I'm sure there are lots of us out here. That was a prolific family.

[RichInOC]

Katie, I say peace on you.

[envisio]

peace love.....what?
gather round and hug each other? *spit*

[dfwgator]

I’m sure Kathi four years ago had her “Dissent Is Patriotic” bumper sticker on her car.

[dfwgator]

Don’t take the brown acid.

[chris_bdba]

Oh I love him just the same way the left loved GWB! :)

[thefactor]

Kathleen Janetatos Smith is a civil litigation attorney, married 20 years to Leroy Smith, Chief Assistant County Counsel for Ventura County. Kathi and Leroy are the parents of three children. Their oldest is a Stanford University student and Nordhoff High ‘05 grad, the two others attend Nordhoff High School, preparing for college and enjoying football and basketball. She works to support her children's athletic and artistic endeavors at various levels, and in the process, also supports many of Ojai's young athletes and artists.

Kathi was elected to the Ojai Unified School District Board of Education in 1998, was reelected in November 2002 and November 2006. She also serves as President for the Ventura County School Board's Association.

Kathi served in roles on the PTO, Site Council and district advisory committees. She served on the S.A.F.E. Coalition, the Board of Directors of H.E.L.P. of Ojai, and taught religious education at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and Villanova Preparatory School. Currently, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ojai Performing Arts Theater Foundation.

Kathi was born in Annapolis, Maryland and graduated from Magruder High School in Montgomery County Maryland. She graduated from the College of the Holy Cross (Massachusetts) in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. She graduated from Georgetown University Law Center (Wash., D.C.) in 1984 with a juris doctor. She has extensive experience in all types of civil litigation representing individuals, insurers, and businesses.

Her hobbies include exercise, hiking Shelf Road with her dog Pilgrim, cooking, and reading. Her extended family enjoys an annual camping trip at El Capitan State Beach, where the children roast marshmallows around a campfire tended by their aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

[CSM]

“Take the toxic anger and hate in your heart and give it up for peace and love.”

Unless the President is a Republican, then let all the toxic anger and hate spew forth in spades.

Whatever happened to “dissent is the new patriotism?”