To the editor:
It is amazing how many people do not have any idea of what is going on in our country and the world. Their lives revolve around the political pabulum of Fox News, Bill O’Wrongly and the radio talk show hosts who regurgitate the ultra-conservative repetition of the Bush, Fourth Reich big lie.
They close their ears to the news of the insanity of the Project for a New American Century and nuclear control of the world in space. (globalnet@mindspring.com)
Like Hitler’s propaganda, the distorted abortion and same-sex marriage issues distract many sincere voters from the sweeping cuts in essential social programs. These progressive programs have been a safety net for the sick, injured, the elderly whose pensions and savings were lost or reduced by Enron- style failures, and the unemployed whose jobs were lost to mergers, outsourcing or given to imported labor. Granted, these programs were abused, but no more so than corporate welfare that is a much bigger part of the budget.
These people do not want to know that it was lies that got us into the chaos of the failed Iraq war that has cost us 1,600 hundred lives to combat. This is not to mention deaths from friendly fire, accidents and, worst of all, suicide. Tens of thousands more are wounded, left without limbs, scarred physically and mentally.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield still ignores the warning that radiation from burning, depleted uranium projectiles means slow death for exposed troops and many Iraqis. (www.idust.net)
Many citizens don’t want to know that we are paying with our health and lives to get affordable electricity that generates mercury and toxic pollution from coal-burning power plants. They do not want to know what is in the processed food we buy and the mercury-laden tuna, swordfish and halibut we eat. (National Geographic, April, page 99)
They don’t want to know because it disturbs them. It makes them realize they are failing to live up to their responsibility as citizens to resist the evil domination of the military, industrial, fascist government that loots our taxes and cancels our Constitution.
Act like a citizen. Join and support MoveOn.org, ACT, and Public Citizen today. The worst sedition is silence.
Wilbur N. Rhodes
Kittery, Maine