Originally published on this website June 20, 2000
To: New York Post,
dreher@nypost.com
Dear Mr. Dreher:
Its a shame that those in "positions of authority" -- from aldermen
to journalists -- all recoil at the recent event in Central Park, yet have
failed to see that this type of rape happens EVERY day of the year in most
nations of the world in which the citizen has been disarmed. And in most cases,
it's government-approved pillage and rape.
I challenge YOU -- with all your First Amendment rights relatively still
intact -- to aid those of us who believe it is our RIGHT and DUTY to defend the
weak and the oppressed. Not just in Kuwait, from a distance with aircraft, but
up close and personal.
We keep hearing about how strong the United States is, and the President
opens trade with the most repressive regime on Earth, as if that will suddenly
change tyranny. A strong economy means nothing to its participants if they can
arbitrarily be held at gunpoint by government agents, tax collectors -- rapists
and muggers are no different than these, when they see an opportunity ripe for
the plucking.
When a society's leaders (legislatures and news outlets) demand the necessity
that each individual member be weak, how the hell can anyone of sanity claim
that the society is strong?!
You will have failed YOUR moral imperative if you do nothing but sit on the
sidelines and wring your sweaty hands!
Sincerely,
Jim Greaves
California
