[898] in libertarians
Shall we this too endure?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph C. Baxter)
Thu Apr 20 01:34:37 1995
Date: 20 Apr 95 01:31:29 EDT
From: "Joseph C. Baxter" <74352.3634@compuserve.com>
To: Libertarian List <libertarians@MIT.EDU>
I am angered beyond words to describe it. I have not felt this sort of anger
since 1979 when American citizens on American soil were held hostage for 444
days. I have not felt this anger since 1983 when I sat helpless off the coast
of Beirut as the broken bodies of 300 of my fellow Sailors and Marines were
pulled from the rubble of the barracks where they lay sleeping. Not since I saw
the body of Lieutenant Colonel Higgins dangling from the rope in Beirut. Not
since the body of Petty Officer Robert Stetham was dumped lifeless on the
airport tarmac in Beirut. Not since Leon Klinghoffer was tossed over the side
of the Achille Lauro in his wheelchair with a bullet through his skull. Not
since that PanAm flight was blown from the sky over Lockerbie. Not since I sat
dumb-founded in Bayonne, New Jersey looking at the World Trade Center across the
Hudson. Not since a lotta damned things like these have I been so angered. But
what angers me most is that those bastards, *BASTARDS*, in Washington will
equivocate, pontificate, and let it go.... again!
Twenty-nine dead in Oklahoma City. Children. 250 yet unaccounted for as of
midnight. What will it take before we loose the dogs? 290? 2,900? 2.9
million? There is debt that has gone unsettled for too long. You and I know
who it is that must pay it. The question is: will our President, our
*Commander-in-Chief*, find his stones and act?
The Soviets (Oh!, how I miss them and the good old days) manufactured something
like 30,000 tactical (or battlefield) nuclear weapons (read here: small and
man-portable) for which now there is little or no accounting for. The Russians
and the Chinese are hell-bent-for-leather to sell nuclear power to the Iranians.
The Germans have already intercepted fissile material coming out of the East.
Substitute a 10KT weapon at the Oklahoma City blast or the World Trade Center.
Is there anyone on this list naive enough to believe that it won't happen? Or,
that there is nothing that we can do about it?
I'd like to hear what my fellow Libertarians think of this.
Joe B.
