Opinion Line (Nov. 23)

I see the Wichita Police Department is testing technology that does indiscriminate scanning and analysis of license plates (read: owner of car) it sees on the road including time, date and location. This is nothing less than a shameful mass surveillance on U.S. citizens without a specific warrant.

The people in this city need a say on police scanning their vehicle license tags in shopping malls, on highways, etc. The ACLU needs to put a stop to this. If I catch the police scanning my tag when I have done nothing wrong, I will take them to court.

Why did it take District Attorney Marc Bennett more than seven months to clear officers in the David Zehring shooting when even he admits “it wasn’t a real tough call”? I don’t expect a rush to judgment, but leaving officers swinging in the breeze that long is pretty sadistic.

Let’s eliminate the Sedgwick County manager position and his assistants to save money, and let the five overpaid and underworked county commissioners be in charge of the various departments.

Barack Obama is a tyrant, using executive orders to unconstitutionally make and change laws. He has repeatedly and materially lied to the American people. It is time for Republicans to discuss presidential impeachment.

Hey, Republicans: The president does not write law. Any attempt by him to write law is an impeachable offense. He’d better be impeached or you’ll lose again in 2016.

Republican logic: Ronald Reagan changes immigration rules? Yawn. George H.W. Bush changes immigration rules? Ho-hum. Barack Obama changes immigration rules? Shut down the government! Impeach him now!

It appears that “leading from behind” means you are a respected expert from MIT when you’re needed and “some analyst not on staff” when you are not.

Someone should send volunteer drones to combat the volunteer Russians in Ukraine.

For speaker of the Kansas House, Republicans will choose between Ray Merrick, who claims government workers such as himself produce nothing, and Virgil Peck, who suggested shooting folks from helicopters to solve the illegal alien problem. No amount of lipstick on these two pigs will make them attractive leaders.

Maybe when Merrick stated that “government employees produce nothing,” he was referring to the Legislature.

Merrick is guilty of a normal politician problem: “Have foot, will put in mouth.”

What gives the Supreme Court the right to change God’s laws?

Religion and government are separate. Therefore you can believe homosexuality is a sin all you want. Your belief has no bearing on the legality of the marriage of others.

Thank you, Richard Crowson, for the Nov. 16 cartoon about the passing of Philip Blake. More editorial cartoons of this tone are needed. They heal rather than divide.

This story was originally published November 22, 2014 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Nov. 23)."