This is Viewpoints for Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015

Thanks from the bottom of my heart

I have always considered myself a healthy and fit person, thoroughly maintaining a healthy lifestyle with diet, regular exercise, weight control and health checkups. It was ironic that I collapsed and sustained cardiac arrest on Sept. 26 while exercising in The Wellness Center at Navicent Health.

From that moment on until I eventually woke up, except from some very strange “out of body experience,” I remember little to none. But now I know how many people were involved in reviving me, keeping me alive and returning back to life with no significant long-term consequences.

Starting with the Wellness Center personnel, namely James Davis and Erin Comer, who introduced CPR and cardiac defibrillation on the timely basis, continuing with the EMS crew that brought me safely to the MCNH Emergency Center where on- call physician Dr. Tomas Concepcion was able to quickly assemble a powerful team of physicians specialists that were able to figure out the problem and brought me back to life. Drs. Fady Wanna, Peter Bolan, Laura Reed, Thomas Hope, Carter Tharpe, Mark Dorogy, Felix Sogadi, Roberta Andrews, Sohail Akbar, Sagar Pance and their staff put up long hours at my bedside, in the laboratories and the operating room to assure my adequate recovery.

There is not enough words and space to express all my gratitude for the care provided and to name everyone involved, but I received exceptional care from the staff in the Emergency Center, CVICU, 4 Main Step-down unit, and Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Physiology labs.

Everyone may only imagine what my beloved wife Tatiana and my wonderful children have been through during these hard times. It is from their testimony, that it would be impossible to cope with that without minute-by-minute support, understanding and guidance from the MCNH staff, office nursing staff, my dear friends, my colleagues and partners. And my family is thankful for that forever.

— Michael Klyachkin, M.D., Ph.D., FACS

Vascular Institute Navicent Health

Manchurian candidates

“If he only knew,” was all I could think of when I read Matt Dykes’ letter to the editor, “Mind-blowing revelation.” Dykes writes, “That’s right folks, guns don’t kill people. It’s worse than that. Guns have mind control and they make people with access to them kill people.” This was in response to Catherine Meeks’ column, “The right to bear arms.”

Many people, including myself, believe the CIA is still experimenting with mind control technologies. We know for a fact that Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter, and Myron May, the FSU shooter, were “targeted individuals.” Targeted individuals face organized stalking (stalking, harassment and surveillance) and allege they are being used in nonconsensual human experiments of voice-to-skull, mind control, directed energy weapons, and other advanced technologies. From NSA, CIA and FBI whistleblowers, we know these technologies exist. The question remains, then, are they being tested on innocent citizens? Are law-abiding Americans being used as “Manchurian candidates”? The answers to these questions will shock us all.

— Jo Dawson

Kensington, Md.

Time is wasting

Two (alleged) thugs shoot 70 times into a home in Macon killing a lady. This was way back in 2008. They were charged and then indicted, but still remain in jail on other charges but await trial on the murder charges. These (alleged) thugs are still alive, still able to communicate with their outside associates via an illegal cellphone.

Nidal Hasan, a military officer and the “wanna be” jihad martyr kills 13 and injuries 32 in 2009 on a military installation. He was tried and convicted of murder this week. He tried to plead guilty, but was not allowed to due to our military judicial rules and regulations.

In my opinion, the delay in bringing these two (alleged) thugs to trial is sad. It is an emotionally trying time for the family members of the lady who was killed. The two thugs still have their families and friends to talk to, yet the wife, mother, sister and friends can’t talk to their beloved dead relative.

I have heard many times that the criminal justice system crawls at a snail’s pace. The justice system’s desire appears to be to ensure there are no errors made that would cause the case to be overturned. I am fine with that, but I ask, why does it take so long? I feel confident the affected families would also like an honest answer to that.

I’d also add, the “wanna be” that was convicted of the murder of 13 will more than likely die in prison before his appeals expire, all at the taxpayers’ expense. The same will occur when and if the two thugs mentioned above are brought to trial and convicted.

— Bubba Ragan

Perry

War on Christianity

I feel it is necessary to clarify myself so as not to sound contradictory. When making a reference to living in a Christian nation, I meant that in a general nature. The United States, in my personal opinion, has abandoned God in government, and is attempting to force everyone to abandon him also.

I would like to use the words of another famous American to help all to see how our decline in government began. “The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next,” said by Abraham Lincoln. Why is that a meaningful statement? Madalyn Murray O’Hair was an American atheist activist best known for a lawsuit which led to a Supreme Court ruling ending Bible reading in American public schools in 1963.

This was just one year after a Supreme Court case ruled it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its citation in public schools.

I ask you what generation is leading this country? I will give you an answer. It is the generation that experienced God being expelled from school. There is a war on Christianity.

— Gary McCall

Warner Robins

This story was originally published October 14, 2015 at 10:03 PM with the headline "This is Viewpoints for Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 ."