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Tired of Giving Our Tax Money Away
By Edward H. LeHoskey, Torrington
Mr. Marvin Peyser: In your article "If You Don't Have Logic" [July 12], you accuse me of attacking you personally. If you will go back and refer to your original piece, dated June 21 [Supporting Israel Is in America's Best Interest], you refer to my article as "vicious." Maybe then you will realize just who started attacking whom. You refer to my questioning where your loyalties lie and call that an "unjustified insult," and then you ramble on about college and logic. You made the statement that "Jonathan Pollard was not spying against the United States, he was spying for Israel." Run that one by your logic professor. You spoke of 94-2 vote. Our politicians are careful not to get labeled the way you are labeling me. They vote according to the way the wind blows—whatever will keep them in office.
I did not think that any of the things I mentioned were tired, old arguments. I felt they are all pertinent to the matter at hand—that being, does Israel run our country or not? And because Mr. Accetta happened to agree with me, you felt you had to attack him. If you follow what I am saying, it seems that just a few words on what a person feels on this subject immediately labels him.
In asking why I mention the Liberty, you refer to it as "the Liberty affair." My mention of the Liberty also earned me a label. I feel very much for the loss of American sailors. You speak of tragic accidents. I am familiar with "friendly fire," "short rounds," etc., but an attack on a United States ship anchored in international waters and flying the United States flag—an accident? I find it hard to believe. Investigations? I remember two—I could be wrong. I didn't know there were thirteen. Granted, it was probably a state ship monitoring radio transmissions in the area. Was something in the air we were not supposed to hear? I don't know! I do know many American boys were killed.
Mr. Peyser, I again state that I am not anti-Israel and definitely not an anti-Semite. I would like you to believe that, but your beliefs are your prerogative. What I am against is America being used like Daddy Warbucks, giving our monies—yours, Mr. Peyser, and mine, and that of millions of other Americans—away like water going through a sieve.
Millions of our own people, and they are born Americans, live on a poverty level that should not be tolerated in our society today. Giving this money away was never put to a vote for the people to decide—it was given away by our politicians. Some of that money could very well be used to cover the costs of the debacle wherein thousands had their pensions, insurance, etc. pulled out from under them. Some of that money could be well used to cover the costs of trials when, and if, these crooks are ever brought before a judge. And let us pray that this judge, if they are sentenced, sees that they are incarcerated in a maximum security prison—one with no law library, no state-of-the-art exercise equipment, no TVs, no carpeted cells, etc.
I too, Mr. Peyser, served my country and served it well.
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