There were 224 graduates in my 1958 New York City vocational high school class. We were a mixture of nationalities, races and creeds in the middle of the most exciting city in the world. Eric Holder was around 7 years old when I graduated. Like me, he later commuted to a Manhattan high school.
Neither of us live in the city any longer but we sure do have different allegiances to it. The Obama and Holder plan to try the 9/11 terrorists in a civil court in the city makes no sense. The unprecedented move would cost around a billion dollars and endanger the lives and occupations of millions of ordinary citizens. The fact that Obama and Holder would consider such a fiasco is unfathomable. Why would they be so insensitive in bringing continued grief to those affected by the World Trade Center attacks?
The assertion that a civil trial in New York City would show the world that we are a civilized nation ruled by laws is nonsense. Ron Bloom, Obama's Manufacturing Czar said, “We kind of agree with Mao that power comes largely from the barrel of a gun”. The Maos of the world agree with Bloom – they respect power, not weakness. They don't care about justice and the only way for us to remain free and prosperous is through power and the willingness to use it.
While your political tribe uses raw power to push regulations, spending and higher taxes against American citizens, the world looks at you and laughs. Picture Nancy Pelosi parachuting into wherever she needs to get to pass a health care bill. The world's laughing at her.
Citizens are baffled by the contents of the President's State of the Union address. Fact checkers from ABC News, NPR, factcheck.org, Asbury Park Press, examiner.com, Yahoo News, the Washington Post and cato-at-liberty.org have found that his comments on the following were either false or half-truths:
stimulus and employment, cutting taxes, government spending freeze, job creation, stimulus success, White House visitors online accessibility, health care provisions, lobbyist involvement, transparency in government, number of terrorist deaths, the Supreme Court decision on campaign financing, oil imports, his mortgage aid plan, U.S. invention of the automobile and completion of the transcontinental railroad during the civil war.
What's going on? What are you people doing? We deserve better. Don't assume that we're stupid! Even though the majority of us didn't graduate from Harvard or Columbia, we can discern falsehood from truth.I had limited interest in politics in the fifties – I was going to school and working after school. I chased girls, took advantage of the cultural offerings of New York City and went to college in Oswego, NY. Admittedly, I knew nothing of H. L. Mencken in those days – he died in 1956 – but his words mirror the frustration of today's citizens with your political tribe. H. L. Mencken said:
"The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle."
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