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Monday, June 13, 2005

Christian Nation My Eye 

I keep hearing all this talk about how America is a Christian Nation built on Christian principals. It is always stated as if it was a flat-out truism. As if no sane person could doubt the veracity of the statement.

Tell ya what I'm going to do, I have a free gmail account to award to the first person who can give me one Christian principal upon which this nation or it's government is founded. The rules are simple. The principal must be biblical. It must be uniquely Christian. And it must be actually encoded in US law.

An Open Letter to Gerald Schiller 

The following is a complete transcription of a letter as it appeared in Sunday's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The Felt effect

W. Mark Felt's family has admitted that their motive for revealing their father as Deep Throat is to cash in on a book deal ("Patriotic Hero or Traitorous Villain?"). Mr. Felt's original motive for ratting out President Nixon was obviously not high-minded patriotism because he himself had directed black-bag jobs at the FBI which were much worse than the Watergate break-in.

Felt's motives were sheer anger and spite for being passed over for promotion by Nixon. Felt's outing of Nixon for trying to cover up a penny ante political crime almost tore the country apart, and the political divisions have still not healed. This prevented Nixon from disengaging the country honorably from Vietnam which was a Democratic-initiated and escalated war. This also enabled the election of one of the country's most inept presidents, Jimmy Carter, whose major accomplishment was giving radical Islam its first foothold in the Middle East by allowing the Ayatollah Khomeini to take over Iran.

And the Democratic overreaction to Watergate (witness the Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike committees) effectively dismantled the United States' intelligence capabilities, which undoubtedly led directly to 9/11, and our misguided and disastrous invasion of Iraq.

Those who label W. Mark Felt as a hero have a strange view of history and patriotism.

GERALD SCHILLER

Penn Hills
Okay, where to start? First I'm going to address this:
And the Democratic overreaction to Watergate (witness the Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike committees) effectively dismantled the United States' intelligence capabilities, which undoubtedly led directly to 9/11, and our misguided and disastrous invasion of Iraq.
Umm, no. What undoubtedly led to 9/11 was Condi Rice's incompetence. What undoubtedly led to the invasion of Iraq was the neo-con infestation in Washington. But now on to the pertinant points.

Felt is a hero regardless of his motives, which you, sir, have little reason to question. It is because of his actions that Nixon was exposed abusing his authority of office. This led to the exposition of his enemies list, and other disgusting and hidden agendas of his presidency.

To say that what Felt did "prevented Nixon from disengaging the country honorably from Vietnam," or that "This also enabled the election of one of the country's most inept presidents, Jimmy Carter," is both unfair to Carter and a gross exageration of the reality. Nixon did what he did, so HE is culpable for his failings, not Felt. Had there been no break in (and all of the other crap Nixon was involved in that W & B uncovered with Felt's help,) there would have been no Watergate scandle.

To blame the messenger for the message is folly. It always has been.

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