Ellen Goodman, the liberal journalist, resorted to tortured reasoning and hyperbole in explaining how Al Gore deserved the Nobel Peace Prize [Dec. 28 Gazette]. Mostly based on Gore’s stated “. . . we have begun to wage war on the earth itself . . . .” without questioning facts, Goodman quotes Gore on the day he spoke to the Nobel audience: “We dumped another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer.” I wonder how he came up with that number, and how much he contributed with his rather large carbon footprints. Oh, I almost forgot, he is allowed to pollute by purchasing carbon offsets. Dan DiNicola, the Gazette’s resident movie critic and historian, informs of our delusion in thinking Ronald Reagan had anything to do with bringing down the Soviet Union [Dec. 30 Gazette]. It was actually Charlie Wilson — not the cruise missiles aimed at Moscow that President Reagan had installed in Western Europe. Wilson managed an end-run around Congress in order to provide funds and weapons to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. Col. Oliver North did the same thing in order to fund and arm the Contras fighting the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua (1986), and was vilified. Philip Schwartz, your pop music writer, exhibited dumbing down at its best, comparing Pink Floyd with Mozart and Beethoven [Dec. 21 Gazette]. David Kaczynski’s Dec. 23 front-page opinion column contained the same old bromides concerning the death penalty. The likelihood that innocent people would be executed has been eliminated with the development of DNA testing. The cost of capital prosecutions is the result of endless appeals, favored by those opposed to the death penalty. More important, life in prison does not guarantee a convicted murderer would not kill again. Gov. Mario Cuomo commuted Lemuel Smith’s death sentence to life. He subsequently murdered a female prison guard. VITO SPINELLI Scotia
Good article Vito. And I am surprised the Gazette actually published it!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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