May 1, 2017

Kathleen Cannon – CEO

The United Way

One South Andrews Avenue

Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316

RE: “Death be not proud”

Ms. Cannon,

Me again.

I trust; indeed I hope, that you are familiar with Walker Percy for 2 reasons.

#1 – He wrote the introduction to “A Confederacy of Dunces”, the great American novel, long after the author, John Kennedy Toole, killed himself. If you read the intro and don’t buy and devour the book, put it down, walk quickly away, and never, ever tell anyone.

#2 – One of his great prose lines is “The back door of an abortion mill leads straight to Auschwitz”.

Your mini Op-Ed in Sunday’s Sun Sentinel suggests that you have been spending too much time genuflecting at the shrine of Margaret Sanger. It is impossible to say her name without mentioning that she was Hitler’s favorite American, with Joe Kennedy being a close second. He so admired her words and deeds that he dedicated his Race Laws of 1934 to her. Those were the laws that enabled him to kill 12,000,000 people.

If we become too familiar with death – 4^th trimester abortions & mercy killings – it loses its sting.

Tread lightly.

Indeed, it is a slippery slope because “after the first death there are no others”.

Kevin Smith