June 27, 2014
Robert Steinback
@Howard Greenberg - Publisher
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394

RE: “Sometimes, the wisest course is to let people solve their own problems.” – The last sentence in your op-ed in today’s unlinkable Sun-Sentinel

Mr. Steinback,

Back in the 20th century – the ‘90s to be exact, AKA the decade of the Defense of Marriage Act, “Midnight Basketball”, and the public approval of Presidential Perjury – you said that my responses to your Miami Herald columns were filed with “delightful paranoia”.

Speaking of “paranoia”, delightful or not, I still treasure your Herald column about how the evil White power structure of Miami Beach conspired to give R. Donohue Peebles an abandoned hotel that was radioactive. Honest. You actually wrote that. Look it up in your archives.

There are 2 facts about Peebles that must be said again and again.

#1 – He was the man to whom the Broward County Commission tried to give a hotel to because he was not White. That he did not have the sense to say “I accept” and then flip it to Marriott or Sheraton is still beyond me. On the other hand, anyone who spent his formative years being mentored by DC Mayor Marion Barry may yet be dancing to a different drum beat,
#2 – He was the last man to see Gus Boulis – Miami Subs? Cruising casinos? 3 bullets in his head? Remember? – before he was murdered. Honest. Look it up.

Do you remember the Fulbright Doctrine?

Senator Fulbright, along with Senator Ervin, and despite the fact that both of them spent their entire adult public lives trying to keep little Black boys from going to school with little White girls, was a hero, along with Senator Ervin, to modern American Liberals.

At its essence it said you can do whatever your want as long as you keep it inside your borders.

It cannot be proved if he took inspiration from Neville Chamberlain who said in Parliament after he returned from Munich with Hitler’s personal guarantee of “peace in our time” that “the people of Czechoslovakia are a faraway people of whom we know little”.

[As an aside because some things are owed to the record, 3 times in the 20th century – 1916, 1940, 1964 – and can you believe that they were all Democrats? – President Wilson, President Roosevelt, & President Johnson – promised not to send American boys to fight in foreign wars. Honest. Look it up. Another thing owed to the record is that I heard Justice Marshall say that T. Woodrow Wilson was the vilest, most bigoted and most racist President ever. All though he did not kill as many Redskins as Old Hickory did he knocked fellow Democrat Andrew Jackson off that perch.]

But I digress.

Since your reasons for bawling behind a bar in Hollywood, and being overserved not being one of them it is a bit too much information.

Facts are stubborn, inconvenient things. There was mood in the country to geld Iraq. 22 separate times the Congress urged President Bush to do so. The 23rd time, a declaration of war, passed both Houses overwhelmingly. Senator Clinton and Congresswoman Pelosi were exhorting the President to make sure he killed enough of the WOG terrorists.

Honest. Look it up.

If, as you say, Americans, Americans doubtless like the perfidious Koch Brothers, Americans like the money hungry Bush family, Americans like the knuckle dragging, gun toting, racist, homophobic, Global Warming denying Tea Party think that all oil, everywhere, is “rightfully ours”, let us chant a minor Te Deum that Montana and North Dakota are part of our 50 states. [Contrary to the claim of President B.O. it’s still 50 stars on the flag, not “57 or 58” as that pant-load moron said. Honest. You could look it up.]

The thought of invading and occupying Butte and Fargo just so we could say these 2 states have 5 times as much oil as Iraq is painful. We already ask the V.A. to do much too much.

If we were to throw Alberta, Canada into the mix we could make Saudi Arabia become Baptists lest we bankrupt them.

Honest. You could look it up.

But I digress yet again.





Logic, the capstone of the Trivium, the hand maiden of Reason, one of the jewels of a DWEM-driven Western Civilization, dictates that if we should “let people settle their own differences” we would be in a state of perpetual benign neglect whenever the Serbs and the Croats unburied their hatchets.

They have been at war since 1384. We know that “after the first death there are no others”. As long as they keep their squabble on an intramural level it could be a population control solution in the Balkans. Anything to reduce man’s carbon footprint, right?

Logic never loses its right angles, its hard edges. Sometimes the corners get rounded subjective perception.

Could it be 20 years since the Hutus and the Tutsis – or was it the Hutsis and the Tutus? – who went at each other with a feral ferocity not seen since Rome finally solved its Carthaginian problem?

Such were the numbers of carrion that countless hyenas and crocodiles went vegan because of an animal protein overload. Their conflict was strictly intra-mural. It stayed completely between the navigational buoys. And, since it posed no threat to us, you would be neutral?

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Do you mean like the Christian in Nigeria? It’s too late to help the Kulaks or the Ibos? Who mourns the Hmong?

One thing is certain.

If we acquiesce in the slaughter of innocents or otherwise we are a lesser people.

I had 2 uncles who came from a foreign country to fight in the American Civil War. One of them has been at Gettysburg since July 2, 1863 “wrapped in his faded coat of blue”.

I like to think that his death meant something, however overreaching his life was.






A Proud Global Warmer




Kevin Smith




PS – If you are auditioning to replace Professor Little Stevie Goldstein as the resident wing-nut moon bat modern American Liberal contemporary Jeremiah you have my support or, and it’s your call, my opposition. Perhaps if you were to show your devotion to the First Amendment by calling for the publication of the Mohammed cartoons or by joining me as I burn an American flag containing the sacred Koran and the not so sacred Christian bible in front of the Sun Sentinel building at noon on July 4th your employment would be secure. Also, I hope that the “R” in front of Peebles’ name stands for Rex et Imperator or Redeemer.