Age of monarchy has ended?
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plutherusKinda catchy headline (they write it, I don't), but the Eugene Register-Guard has printed another one of my letters.
This is about the fifth letter to the editor that I've sent in since I moved here, and the second one they've printed. It is also, like the first one they printed, a direct response to another letter. (And the others were not. Hm.)
They made some slight edits, most of which made it better, I think, but they dropped my favorite line "It is not treason to "constantly second-guess the President" it is the duty of all patriotic Americans." (They also changed my capitalized "The Leader" to "leaders". Maybe they didn't catch the translation from German).
Link to the letter is here
And I've copied the whole thing, as they printed it
Age of the monarchy has ended
Henry G. Wrolson's Oct. 14 letter, "Bush elected to make decisions," urges us all to stop questioning the president. He's way off the mark.
George W. Bush is our employee, not our king, and it is contrary to the very foundation of America to claim, as Wrolson does, that we should not hold him accountable for his actions or decisions.
The elected representatives of this country must answer to the people, not the other way around. If we wanted to blindly obey leaders and have absolute unquestioning trust that they are working in our interests rather than only their own, we never would have broken away from England in the first place.
I would suggest that Wrolson go there, except that they have since followed our example and have an expectation that their elected representatives must answer to the people - as has most of the rest of the world. I'm sorry that Wrolson misses the age of the monarchy, but, except for a few countries here and there, it's over.
PAT LUTHER
Eugene
This is about the fifth letter to the editor that I've sent in since I moved here, and the second one they've printed. It is also, like the first one they printed, a direct response to another letter. (And the others were not. Hm.)
They made some slight edits, most of which made it better, I think, but they dropped my favorite line "It is not treason to "constantly second-guess the President" it is the duty of all patriotic Americans." (They also changed my capitalized "The Leader" to "leaders". Maybe they didn't catch the translation from German).
Link to the letter is here
And I've copied the whole thing, as they printed it
Age of the monarchy has ended
Henry G. Wrolson's Oct. 14 letter, "Bush elected to make decisions," urges us all to stop questioning the president. He's way off the mark.
George W. Bush is our employee, not our king, and it is contrary to the very foundation of America to claim, as Wrolson does, that we should not hold him accountable for his actions or decisions.
The elected representatives of this country must answer to the people, not the other way around. If we wanted to blindly obey leaders and have absolute unquestioning trust that they are working in our interests rather than only their own, we never would have broken away from England in the first place.
I would suggest that Wrolson go there, except that they have since followed our example and have an expectation that their elected representatives must answer to the people - as has most of the rest of the world. I'm sorry that Wrolson misses the age of the monarchy, but, except for a few countries here and there, it's over.
PAT LUTHER
Eugene
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Date: 2003-10-20 01:20 pm (UTC)