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Subject: Fw: THINGS TO WHICH I’D LIKE ANSWERS
From: "E Stevenson" <benstev****t@msn.com>
Date: Wed, August 19, 2020 9:34 pm
To: "E Stevenson" <benstev****t@msn.com>
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Good one, forwarded by a woman who grew up in France and always wanted to be a
US citizen.
She was pro-Trump before I was. She and her family had to leave Florida and
moved back to Canada because of the Obama economy.
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 9:14 PM
To: Ellen <benstev****@msn.com>
Subject: Fwd: THINGS TO WHICH I’D LIKE ANSWERS
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THINGS TO WHICH I’D LIKE ANSWERS
By E. P. UNUM
August 6, 2020
Every once in awhile I find myself reflecting on many of the things I see and
hear about going on in our country. I think back to the prescient words of
Abraham Lincoln, “a House Divided cannot stand” and it fills me with a sense of
anxiety and concern I have difficulty expressing in words.
Here are a few of those things I don’t really understand and would welcome
answers to:
1. New York City voted to defund the police. These, along with firefighters and
EMT’s were the same people who ran into the burning and collapsing Twin Towers
to rescue people. Many of them perished on that fateful day. Who will be willing
to run into the flames of the next attack or the next school shooting where the
lives of our children and teachers are at risk?
2. The presumed Democratic candidate for President, Joe Biden has committed
himself to choose a “woman of color” for his running mate for Vice President.
Has it ever occurred to anyone that choosing a candidate on the basis of skin
color is racist?
3. The United States Government whose military includes “Tomahawk Cruise Missles”
and “Apache”, “Blackhawk”, “Kiowa” and “Lakota” helicopters; whose Seal Team
used the code name ‘Geronimo” in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and whose
Navajo Code Talkers helped save thousands of lives in combat operations in WWII
against Japan, now officially objects to the name of the Washington Redskins?
How is this important to our lives today and why is it an issue?
4. I’m just wondering, but at a time when there is so much fear going on
in the world about the China Coronavirus, hate-filled rhetoric of politicians in
an election year, state and local governments implementing unnecessary
ultra-rigorous controls over its citizenry, preventing businesses from doing
business and citizens from going to church, is this really the time to take God
out of our lives?
5. With so many Americans unemployed during this pandemic, why is it that our
elected representatives in Congress and the Senate, as well as State Governors
and City Mayors continue to receive full salaries and benefits?
These people, our elected officials, made the decision to close down our economy
and the jobs of millions of Americans. Why are they not held to the same
standards as we the people? Why don’t they willingly forego their salaries until
we defeat this assault on our nation? Maybe if they were in the same boat with
the rest of us, they might be more inclined to work together developing and
implementing solutions to our problems instead of continuing to have these
schoolyard arguments and get nothing done?
6. It seems to me, based on their actions to date, that Black Lives Matter (BLM)
is a well- funded terrorist organization dedicated to destroying businesses,
tearing down monuments and memorials and wreaking havoc on American cities. So,
I am all for PLM, abbreviated for Police Lives Matter. They are committed to
protecting our people and our businesses and properties. Anyone with me?
7. Tomorrow is my birthday. I turn 75. I believe that I am now playing with
house money. More importantly, I own an AR-15 and two pistols with a boatload of
ammunition. You see, I have reached the conclusion that the older I get, the
less life imprisonment is a deterrent for me and so, when as and if the BLM crew
and their acolytes start causing problems for me and my neighbors, they had best
be on good terms with the Lord. I tend to fight like I’m the third gorilla
trying to catch a ride on Noahs Ark when it is starting to rain!
8. When I was in school, history was a serious subject and we were taught about
the American Revolution, the Civil War and slavery, WWII, the growth of our
nation from an agrarian society to the industrial society and now, today, the
informational society. We learned about American Exceptionalism and the fact
that America saved Europe from totalitarianism twice in the twentieth century.
And, in the aftermath of WWII, when the world was in complete turmoil, America
went about rebuilding 17 nations of Europe under the Marshall Plan and the
entire nation of Japan. I once visited Poland and the infamous Auschwitz Prison
Camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles, Gypsies and Gays were tortured
and murdered by the Nazis.
Someone asked our guide a question: “why hasn’t this place been burned to the
ground, there are such terrible memories here?” The guide responded “that is
exactly why. People must know what happened here so that it never happens
again.” That is why history and monuments and memorials are so vitally
important. History, whether good or bad, needs to be remembered!
You cannot erase history, you can only learn from it
9. Is it a coincidence or a figment of my imagination that all of the American
cities with the most violence and destruction of businesses and property are all
run by Democrats?
10. I hope everyone in America, Democrat, Republican or Independent remembers
how Kamala Harris tried to ruin Brett Kavanaugh’s life and the lives of those in
his family. If she is Joe Biden’s choice for Vice President she has an awful lot
of explaining to do.
11. If Joe Biden knows how to fix the problems in America, how to solve the
racial divide and how to improve the economic well being of Americans, why the
hell didn’t he tell Obama when he was Vice President? He had eight years to do
it. Isn’t it curious that having spent almost fifty years in government, he
suddenly has all the answers? Oh, and by the way, if we have “systemic racism”
in America, why didn’t Joe Biden tell Barack Hussein Obama, a black man, to
address it and fix it?
12. Here are a few more questions I have:
* Are we being quarantined until there are no more germs left in the
world or just until after the election?
* Why is it OK to stand in line at Home Depot, Wal-Mart, and Costco,
but it suddenly is not safe to vote in person?
* Can someone explain to me the rationale for the teachers union
objecting to teachers returning to work unless (1) police are defunded; (2)There
is Medicare for all; (3) all charter and private schools are abolished and (4)
54% of all schools have their ventilation systems improved. How does any of this
justify having teachers not report to work?
* When I think of Martin Luther King I try to reflect on the times he
led riots in our city streets; burned down businesses; looted stores and tore
down statues Then it dawned on me…MLK never did any of those things. Yet, he
changed the world! There must be a lesson in this, don’t you agree?
13. If the U.S. Flag is racist, why did it drape the coffin of
Congressman John Lewis? Equally, why did Nancy Pelosi deliver a folded flag to
the widow of George Floyd, a convicted criminal?
14. Just saying, but what Coronavirus has taught me is that I can
survive without the professional athlete, but I don’t think we can survive
without the American soldier.
15. Why did Nancy Pelosi say that it should not be a crime to come to
the United States illegally? Am I missing something?
16. Under Obama the H1N1 Virus resulted in 60.8 million infections;
there was zero panic level and China was blamed. Fast forward to today, there
are 4.6 million cases of coronavirus reported; the panic level is one of mass
hysteria covered 24/7 by the news cycle and Trump is blamed!
Wonder why that is?
17. Many of our young men and women in college or just transitioning to
the workplace are of the opinion that socialism is good and, in fact, a better
economic system than capitalism. They have been taught this in our colleges and
universities but their professors must have been absent on the days they were
asked to enumerate those nations where socialism has succeeded. Accepting
socialism as an economic system is, in essence, admitting you cannot compete in
the real world. You are essentially saying “I am willing to give up my liberty,
my religion, my dreams and my property as long as the State (government) commits
to taking care of me.
Accepting socialism is tantamount to accepting failure even before the challenge
is raised. It is the complete opposite of the principles upon which America came
into being and which so many have sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honor to create.
18. Can anyone tell me why the hell you receive a tax refund if you are on
welfare? How does that happen?
19. One last remark, just in case you are wondering. I am a firm, dedicated
believer in the LGBT Movement:
Liberty
Guns
Bible
Trump
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