Husband's LTTE ! Jackson CitPat Michigan

[auntAgonist]

Brink of destruction

JACKSON -- Another election has come and gone. Gone are the speeches and TV ads designed to sway us with little lies.

This nation has returned the Bush administration to office with an overwhelming message:

We would rather believe lies wrapped in Christian rhetoric or phony moral authority we can identify with than to understand the complexity of the overwhelming evidence that believing such lies is destroying America at home and abroad.

All is silent now, yet it is the silence of the dead, to whose numbers we will now add. The American people see our soldiers dying and think they are safer. They listen to the president's rhetoric, repeated over and over, and think they are safer. They close their hearts and minds and think they are safer. All we are doing is isolating ourselves from our friends and uniting our enemies.

Americans looking to their government for relief will realize that those placed in stewardship of this nation are the very ones who are preying upon it. Lobbyists and lawyers who once represented the nation's most powerful industries now represent the government in the departments of Labor, Agriculture, Interior, and the EPA. Your rights to litigate and so much more have just ended.

Before the election, I almost thought it would be better for George Bush to win this election so that he would have to face the chaos that will follow. He created it; I thought it would only be right that he should have to deal with it. Now he will, though it will be far worse, and perhaps the American people will come to know the pain they have inflicted on so many around the world.

Perhaps they will see what the other half of their countrymen have seen all along -- but I wouldn't count on it.

Dennis Smalley


From http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1099826566275190.xml

[kiwi]

1. Excellent!

Kiwi

[pacalo]

2. How true.

Some of the fundamentalists (I know a couple of these "born-agains"), are economically poor, superstitious people who believe everything that happens is "God's will". God "talks" to them. He "told them" to vote for George Bush. He "told them" that the "rapture" is coming.

I'm disgusted that those "pro-lifers" who overlook the life being destroyed in Iraq & who hate gays voted for the most inept president in American history on those issues alone. They actually think he's a great president. They ignore the opinions of Bush's cabinet members, along with one government expert after another, who think he's one Mountain Dew short of a six-pack. They ignore leaders of their own party who have become disenchanted with George Bush. They ignore the long list of world leaders & their countrymen who despise George Bush.

And they feel safer? Doesn't the widespread negative opinions tell them something about their false prophet? Oh, that's right: God "told" them to destroy our country.

[auntAgonist]

3. thanks

I'm very proud of my husband. EVERY time he writes to the Editor of the paper it's published.

[1gobluedem]

4. Another excellent letter in today's Free Press

This was in today's Detroit Free Press; beautifully said.

November 9, 2004







If last week's exit polls are to be believed, it is questionable that Americans understand the difference between moral values and religious dogma. Is it morality or dogma to deny the legal benefits accompanying marriage to gay people because of some poorly defined threat to traditional marriage while ignoring the more immediate threats of war, poverty and poor health care?

Is it morality or dogma to proclaim reverence for life while prosecuting a questionable war that may have already killed upwards of 100,000 people and an uncountable number of the unborn?

Is it morality or dogma to defend embryos in freezers -- embryos that have no probability of being implanted and becoming human beings -- while denying sick and suffering people the benefits of research using embryonic stem cells?

Is it morality or dogma for the president to seek God's guidance for his policies while presiding over the most deceptive and evasive administration in memory?

Before another election goes by, it is incumbent on clergy, philosophers, teachers and the American people to engage in a dialogue on the differences of morality and dogma.

Norman Tepley West Bloomfield


www.freep.com/letters

[auntAgonist]

5. Absolutely! great letter!

thanks for posting that.

[GiovanniC]

6. I Live in Jackson Too!

Look for a letter from me in the Citizen Patriot in the next week or so called "I'll Be Here".

[auntAgonist]

7. I'll watch for it!

Please post it here in the MI forum so others see it too :)