August 2, 2013
Stephen Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel

RE: Some comments on your unlinkable column on The People…Yes

My dear Professor,

The New York Times, the paper that still honors Walter Duranty, announced in their normal ex cathedra style that the 547 vote win by Governo GWr Bush over Vice President AA Gump in 2000 was, for lack of a better word, kosher.

You call it a “debacle”.

What would you call the 336 vote win by Gump over Bush in New Mexico?

Speaking of “debacles”, is your smarmy condescension retroactive? What would call the tally by the Merry Pranksters in Chicago in 1960? There is a line in the movie Key Largo that sums up the winning strategy of big city modern American Liberal politics. “You count the votes until you win.”

We know that political and ethical cognitive dissonance, in this case the ability to distinguish between bad fraud and good fraud, is genetically imbedded in utero in modern American Liberals.

In your case the results of it are worthy of Guinness Book mention.

You write of rampant “violations of the Federal Voting Rights Act”. Let me let you in on a little secret. Here it is.

The President is a Democrat.
The Attorney General is a Democrat.

Either or both will take your collect call.

Washington is chock-a-block filled with idle Federal agents. These are men with badges, guns, and the full force of the law. Since they are not investigating Fast & Furious, since they are not investigating the Benghazi killings, since they are not investigating the IRS, they sit by polishing their hob-nail boots and honing their bayonets.

“How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!

If you drop a dime on the creepy-assed crackers, all of whom are Tea Party, homophobic, GOP racists, it will look like D-Day in about 72 hours. The sun will be blotted out with parachutes carrying men with automatic weapons, in this case good automatic weapons, to bring justice to this last bastion of apartheid.

Trust me.

But back to plea for universal vox populi.

Do you think that certain crimes, child molestation cases come to mind, should be tried, not in the courtroom, but rather on the steps of the Courthouse? How about letting the people speak during the 7th inning stretch at a Marlins game? It sure as Hell can’t hurt attendance. For longer trials there is always half time at the Dolphins games. Are they on Monday Night Football this year? If the game is a blowout we can schedule the hanging at the end of the game. If that doesn’t hold the audience nothing will.

The problem with letting the people speak is that they sometimes say the wrong things. [I shant shame you by pointing out that the differences between a Democracy and a Republic were detailed 25 centuries ago the various Hellene agoras. Honest. You could look it up.] Can you show me an instance where the citizens of any state have voted to approve same sax marriage? Take your time.

I agree with you that it may be time to “end the tyranny of special interests in Tallahassee”

Would you agree with me that the SEIU has too much influence there? Also, the Pro-Death groups, the various teachers’ unions, and the manatee suffrage lobbyists. They should be curtailed, right? Perhaps infringed on is the better word.

As a modern American Liberal you pay lip service to the idea of free speech. Alas, we both know that some speech is freer than others, right? That’s why the First Amendment begins with the majestic words “Congress shall make no law…”

It extends even to you. How about me?



KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET