>I hope the government keeps an eye on you. From the
>content of your columns, I think you are perhaps as
>dangerous a subversive as Timothy McVeigh. My opinion is
>that the government is relatively harmless compared to
>people like you who spend a lot of time trying to damage
>what is a reasonably good political system. You are an
>extremist.
>--
>Robert Holloway
>
Thank you, Robert --
It's recognition like yours that keeps me getting up and plodding back into office every day.
I think your idea about having the government "keep an eye" on folks who write columns about the Bill of Rights and stuff like that is not a bad idea, either. After all, which one of the founding fathers was it who wrote, in a letter to Col. Edward Carrington dated Jan. 16, 1787, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the former"? Of course, we all know that was the author of the Declaration of Independence himself, Aaron Burr.
In fact, why don't you write to the Justice Department and suggest they start doing just that -- "keeping an eye" on folks who spread unnecessary public alarm by pointing out the ways in which our wise and progressive federal government has managed to sidestep that restrictive and out-of-date old political corset, the so-called "Constitution"? They'd need more staff, of course, but we do have that huge new federal surplus to spend SOMEWHERE, and just by coincidence I understand there are plenty of fellows now looking for work who have suitable backgrounds, having been formerly employed by the Stasi, the OGPU, the Tontons Macoute, and other similar plainclothes "police" organizations which have recently fallen on hard times in other parts of the world.
Address your suggestion to:
Special Assistant to Janet Reno for Press Surveillance
Heinrich Himmler,
c/o Department of Justice,
Felix Dzerzhinsky Federal Building
10th & Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20770
And thanks again for your unsolicited endorsement of my work. It's letters like yours that keep me going.
-- V.S.
p.s. -- See you at the torchlight parade next week.
Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, 1872
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken