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C O R R E S P O N D E N C E

    W IT H   THE   C L O S E - M I N D E D

This is a collection of letters and comments covering correspondence I have received over the last several months. Names have been removed, the guilty and the innocent may well recognize themselves, but I do not want anyone else to be affected by this. I am saddened, shamed and concerned about the trends I see struggling for dominance in our lives. Too many people evidence my cautionary remarks quoting Thomas Jefferson, P T Barnum, and the writer of The Emperor's New Clothes, in which the critical remarks are "Americans will get the government they deserve", "No one ever went broke UNDER-ESTIMATING THE INTELLIGENCE of the American public" and "But, Mama, he's Naked!" These statements all bear upon the acceptance and sometimes furtherance of unAmerican ideals, by otherwise intelligent, decent Americans and their willingness to whistle merrily off down a road previously traveled by other megalomaniacs and evil empires and other similarly non-American poseurs, such as "Freedom Fighters", or like-sounding misnomers for what people like us want, and have come to expect as our birthright as Americans!

So here, in 11,000 words, cut and pasted and assembled in one fevered 10 hour period beginning one night when I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep for the pain, starting around 2:30 a.m., stopping only to make more pots of coffee, until somewhere around noon, when I tried to post it to my journal--a doomed effort that I soon abandoned as pointless, after trying to cut it up, knowing there was no way to edit it.

Enjoy, or not as the case my be, for there are some journalers who come off as their real selves, the curtain pulled away, and I am certain that a significant number will KNOW who said this comment or that.   Several of these "correspondents" have blocked me from writing to them, because of these conversations.  I really do not care, for I believe it to be their loss, not mine.  I'm not interested in such pettiness, and anyone who fails to heed the dictum the First Amendment was based upon, as you will read in one of these corespondences, Voltaire's immortal "I may not care for what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it!" is not only not worth the time and effort for me to continue the conversation with, but someone who has no claim to be American or Patriotic.  There was a good reason the First Amendment was chosen to be FIRST, and denying someone their First Amendment Right is the most unAmerican act one can take, in my opinion.

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Sometimes I wonder if the Boys From Brazil was actually fiction, the creationof Ira Levin's feverish imagination, or an apocryphal story, one that got some of the details wrong, but the essential story is dead on, the "boys" having just taken on a new political "identity" of convenience, camouflage for their real intentions, and their actual heritage. Something to chew on, as gas prices rise, liberties dwindle, and we transition from a country with expanding horizons, and limitless possibilities, to one of diminished expectations, in a world bereft of leaders larger than life, replaced instead by small men (and women) with little if anything, to say, and poorly stated at best, even then.