Letter to the Tennessean

Harriet Tubman risked her life over and over again to travel from Maryland to as far as Canada and back to free her fellow slaves, knowing that if she was caught, she would be severely tortured before being murdered. That's tough. Martin Luther King, Jr. was giving a speech and someone came up on the stage, punched him in the face and knocked him on the ground. King, who was a wrestler in school, got up, extended his hand to the surprised attacker and offered him his seat. That's tough.


Vietnam veteran Mitch Snyder slept on a heating grate in the freezing cold in December outside of the White House and twice fasted until he almost died, in order to force Ronald Reagan, by publicly shaming him, to help the homeless in Washington DC, which Reagan, only very begrudgenly, finnally did after an 80+ day fast. That's tough. Jesus called hypocrites like conservative Christians, who pretend to stand for "family values" and do the opposite of what he said, "fools", "snakes" and "blind leaders of the blind". He already knew he would be crucified for doing so. That's tough.

Junior Bushwacker is a little wienie (or is that a non-wienie), who leaned on his rich daddie to get out of combat, who sends some of our finest men and women to die in an illegal war for corporate profiteers, a war his own children refuse to sign up for, surpassed in cowardice perhaps only by Karl Rove, who is the biggest coward in American history. Anybody who calls men sitting in wheelchairs because of their service to their country such as Max Cleland and Ron Kovics "unpatriotic" is a Coward of the cowards, which is what that little silk-tied winie-less corporate oil pimp Karl Rove did.


Richard Aberdeen
richard@freedomtracks.com
www.FreedomTracks.com