To the Editor:
How much hate is needed to satisfy the left’s goals? How deep does the TDS go in their psyche? How many more assassinations will it take to fill the left’s power drive? The lack of respect for our citizens or life itself by these deranged people is out of control. There wasn’t enough hate to go around for the SPLC so they paid millions to create it and set up the “There were good people on both sides” SPLC and Biden distorted and used. I can tell you that I personally know the SPLC corruption goes back at least 20 years. They tried to smear me!!! How many supported the Jessie Smollett con job of being a race victim? What evil would do that? One of the worst and corrupt media i came across is PBS who lied and deceived the public. I know that for a fact because I was there and spoke to them for at least 30 minutes, but they refused to report what really happened. Like so many nonprofits/NGO’s they have an agenda.
The Clintons whose goal was money and power, and still is, showed Obama how to take corruption to the next level using race and victimhood. The schools and media were the main mass drivers to accomplish the left’s divide and conquer tactic. The Clintons sold us out (our uranium) while the Clinton Foundation financially ballooned in size. They couldn’t even leave the White House without stealing whole rooms of White House property, then were forced to return it. No, that was not a mistake, they knew it when they DID IT!. This corruption l has been in the making for at least 40 or more years and became highly active under Obama, Obama had some very practiced criminals, the Clintons, as teachers. Obama’s goal “Change”. That became his slogan. But it was actually changed to Socialist/Marxists.
The Russagate conspiracy was promoted by Obama, as we now have proof.. Yet, he’s not been charged. Why? Well, corruption runs deep in both parties and the left works hard to “Ignore it and it will go away” and put something else to the spotlight. The tactic I heard in college all those years ago. Today the media is more than willing to accommodate whatever is needed to grow the hate as jokes about the third assination are considered entertainment. Anything over 24 hours is old news unless the left needs to exploit it..
How did this vigilante ideology take over? Schools and nonprofits, the two institutions society always respected and trusted. Both have a large part in pushing hate.. As it became normal the TDS spread. Just about every week Kelly Scoles spews TDS out to push the hate for our President with her LTTE.. Hate is the prerequisite for violence.
As more of the political corruption that was hidden from the public is exposed with proof of who actually did what, the left and deep state will push the hate and vigilante ideology in a desperate move to change the focus, It will get worse. TDS is real and dangerous. TDS is an active participant and unless there are consequences for those who distort reality for power and gain, it will destroy what our forefathers sacrificed to give us.
Jean McLeod,
Fillmore, Ca.
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To the Editor:
At the heart of your “outcome test” is the proposition that, “the ends justify the means.” It is generally used as an excuse to achieve goals through any means necessary, no matter how immoral, illegal, or unpleasant those means may be. Or, “it doesn’t matter how you get what you want as long as you get it.” No, I can’t subscribe to your “outcome test” for an unprovoked attack on Iran (or by Russia on Ukraine). And no, again, I cannot tell the difference between success and failure in Iran In Your Mind, which was my original question. So, Martin, what will “success” in Iran look like to you? Are there any means that Trump may choose to employ that would offend your conscience?
I ask, because this administration has done many things that offend my conscience, including cuts to Medicare and food support, withholding subsidies to ACA, letting the likely-insane Musk having access for any purpose to our most private information, decimating of the science and medical infrastructure of America, asserting that “affordability is a scam,” planning to control elections and voter registration on a demonstrably false fraud pretense, etc., ad infinitum.
First, the “end” has to be legitimate and lawful, clearly identified, and just. An internal example of a stated outcome employing excessive, violent, and unintended means, would be that many Americans voted to authorize their president to close the southern border to undocumented immigrants, even those fleeing persecution, and deport the criminally “worst of the worst.”
But the government has wildly exceeded the voters’ designated “end” with cruel, outrageous, and likely unconstitutional means as it conducts a wholesale dragnet of long-term, law-abiding residents, or people who are working through the path to citizenship, or parents or spouses of US military, or who are here legally but say critical things about the government. These people are detained in horrendous, inhumane circumstances, and often deported to places with which they have no connection. Bystanders in MN were murdered. Moreover, this president proposes to de-naturalize citizens who say mean things about him or his elves, and reject the Constitutional provision for birthright citizenship, clearly beyond your “outcome test.”
The same guy is running American foreign policy. Trump has acknowledged that international ends and means are without boundaries, constrained only by “the limits of my own mind. In this instance, those limits are fluid, sloshing from regime change to removal of enriched uranium, and often washing up unconsidered consequences (Strain of Hormuz blockade), and the effects of repugnant, uncivilized threats.
Ironically, Trump’s present demands are remarkably similar to the Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA) negotiated by renowned Middle Eastern experts (but no real estate moguls) in 2015 under then-President Barack Obama, between Iran and six world powers to limit Iran’s nuclear program to peaceful uses, with extensive oversight, in exchange for sanctions relief. That oversight ended in 2018 when Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and dismissively promised, “a far better deal.” Which now Trump essentially wants to restore, plus renewed free access to Hormuz. I fear that America is flying blindly, hoping that the outcome will avoid a mountain.
Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore, Ca.