Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Covered Persons Your October cover reminded me that one of Custer's lieutenants at the Little Bighorn was named Reno. -MALCOLM M. MCGAWN Vista, California All the Names Fit to...
...But by joining the mainstream media chorus to belittle patriotic Americans who see our freedoms weakened, our Constitution circumvented, and our traditional values trashed, Mr...
...Sadly, many kids as naive as American Spectator staffers don't realize that hot dogs aren't all that fun for pigs...
...Believe me, life wasn't that good...
...In Tibetan Buddhism there is honor in dying as these men did, however dishonorable the act of their abandonment by the United States...
...Each year, 92 million pigs are killed in the United States alone...
...Lynn is mistaken in believing Jerry Cavanaugh, mayor of Detroit during the 1967 riots, to have been a "black liberal...
...He acknowledges that the guerrillas themselves were partly to blame for the disaster, which went against all known tactical sense...
...Although I am presumed not to be a liberal, I agree that children are born with complete understanding and anything you try to teach them is tampering with the perfection of nature...
...But I consider any infringement on my own, private, personal hedonistic pursuits to be a gross violation of my fundamental liberties...
...I assume the point of contention is that a plural subject calls for a plural, not singular, verb...
...But Linder did not play a tramp, and Chaplin never served a personal apprenticeship with him...
...For nearly 35 years I have lectured about constitutional legal systems in U.S...
...You know a guerrilla doesn't fight a set battle," he says, "but the Chinese trapped them, set a trap for them...
...James Madison (VA), and happily signed by President George Washington on September 24, 1789...
...Insofar as there was a message for those outside the tribe at all, (Continued on page 85) 12 December 19 97 • The American Spectator Roberts/Tibet (Continuedfrompage33) wouldn't approve a drop...
...There is no two-year "break" in Chaplin's résumé which he spent as an apprentice to a French comedian...
...He showed that it was possible to combine slapstick with pathos, made full-length "story" films as opposed to sketches, etc...
...Despite their fine words, the "Publius" authors of the Federalist Papers (Jay, Hamilton, and Madison) were secretly supporting opposing legislation and behavior, resulting, under President John Adams, in the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798-1801...
...While certain magazine editors may "revere" the giant wiener on wheels, most people can see through Oscar Mayer's not-so-subtle attempts to sell people on the idea that pig lips are good food...
...He had no illusions that the Chinese would be beaten...
...Signing of "informations," government interference with grand and 10 December 1997 • The American Spectator trial juries, new judicial branch officers which would have been strongly opposed by nearly every state ratifying convention delegate (Attorney General, U.S...
...The Federalist Society today (of which I am a non-lawyer contrarian member) totally agrees that God is and should be out of American law, and that judicial supremacy and judge-made, precedent setting ("case") laws are legitimate...
...The bowler hat, cane, and flat-footed walk were all staples of English music hall comedy, and Chaplin learned these elements of his trade during his years with Fred Karno's Komics...
...Now I can understand why people might disagree with certain things that appear in TAS, but to consider TAS the enemy is to be an extremist...
...Bethell should understand it is not the "nuts" who have pinned on this label, but rather their enemies...
...TAS's Wladyslaw Pleszczynski will forgive me...
...At the Times newsroom diversity is no idle concern but an existential fulfillment...
...The grammatical solecism in a New York Times headline ("25 Million Pounds of Beef Is Recalled"), gleefully displayed in October's Current Wisdom, may not be that at all...
...Many of our greatest theatrical professionals have attested to Chaplin's genius in this regard, beginning with Minnie Maddern Fiske in 1916...
...Supreme Court rules, every major abuse of English common law our ancestors had just fought a war to free us from...
...Since I have no left-wing ideals, lofty or otherwise, I couldn't say...
...Six prominent American legal historians have documented this kind of behavior, going all the way back to the eleventh century in Europe (from moral philosophy and ethics, rooted in transcendent religion...
...Having read several reviews of the Luce book, I had no interest in it...
...After 27 months of stalling, on September 25, 1789, Congress sent the proposed Bill of Rights to the states for ratification...
...That's not how you end it...
...In its past parade of reporters' bylines marched mainly names that rest comfortably on the eyes and tongue...
...And the Wienermobile should beequipped with a bad bag, because many people lose their lunch after learning what actually goes into meat hot dogs...
...Health food stores and even many mainstream supermarkets sell a variety of vegetarian pups that have all the taste of the "real thing" —but none of the cruelty, cholesterol, or pig lips...
...One would have to be either in the Clinton administration or a member of the welfare state to consider TAS the enemy...
...Galbraith was adamant...
...Coleman Young, elected after the riots, was the first black mayor in Detroit...
...The retired case officer believes that the new CIA director, John McCone, had President Kennedy's authorization to carry out the airdrop as an exception to the rule, provided that Galbraith agreed...
...This act was written in secret by seven U.S...
...LARRY HELLYER Montgomery, Illinois Conspiring Against Bethell I read with dismay Tom Bethell's "Conspiracy Talk" article (TAS, October 1997), in which he pooh-poohs millions of Americans who have been labeled "conspiracy nuts...
...Within a few years Richard Nixon would make his historic trek to China, heralding rapprochement between Washington and Peking...
...Of course, if the Thernstroms were counting anyone Irish as black, their numbers could be a little skewed, so let's hope that only Mr...
...Chaplin's genius did not reside in his costume but in his ability to adapt English music hall mime to film...
...But then I read Miss King's review (TAS, October 1997) on the train this morning, and bought the book at lunch...
...You should cancel his subscription...
...This is valid if the recall of beef had occurred in stages, e.g., "In the last six months, 25 million pounds of beef have been recalled...
...What chance do honest citizens have, unless we force the restoration of our proper rule of law, with the consent of us governed...
...Constitution...
...I dismissed the article and the book he reviewed because both missed the point...
...King Reigns Florence King is the present-day Dorothy Parker—with a constructive side...
...Admitting Vince Foster's suicide note "surely was forged" clearly qualifies the author as a full-fledged "conspiracy nut" himself, but then suggesting it may have been merely "a dishonest attempt to embarrass the Wall Street Journal," tells me Mr...
...Downey, California Steady, Now According to Joseph C. Brown, III (letter in "Oceans Away" section of October's Correspondence), "Law enforcement and the professionals who make it work get pilloried in the media constantly by liberals who view any infringement on their hedonistic pursuits as an insult to their lofty left-wing ideals...
...Somewhere east of Lhasa lie the bones of 6,000 slaughtered Tibetan freedom fighters, their death-struggle kept secret from the world for more than thirty-six years...
...Southfield, Michigan A Lady and the Tramp I was surprised that you printed E.N...
...Our life was not about statistics...
...It showed little children, of a rainbow of races, being delightful in the vicinity of the words "Nobody's Born a Bigot...
...As the CIA reported in its memo to Eisenhower many years ago, their heroic sacrifice is valuable karma, and will be rewarded in their new incarnation...
...I had to read the quoted headline several times before I could fathom your gripe...
...JOYCE MILTON via the Internet Liberal Deconstruction Your editorial "Not Nice Lice" (TAS, October 1997), about a peculiar animal rights billboard in the Outer Banks, reminds me of a billboard that blossomed all over Los Angeles a year or so ago...
...However, a drastic step like recall is usually a single incident...
...Precisely what Kennedy and McCone agreed to on Tibet is still classified...
...that is, stroking liberal self-esteem...
...Illustrations at the alphabetic start are Apple and Ayres, Baker and Butterfield, Cowell and (yes) Corry, Darnton and Dowd...
...FRED GIELOW Boca Raton, Florida As regards "Conspiracy Talk" by Tom Bethell, I quote from the character of Cinnabar Baker in Proteus Unbound, by Charles Sheffield (serialization in Analog magazine, October 1988): "I disapprove of every conspiracy of which I am not a part...
...The part that bothered me was leaving thousands behind, not hundreds like the Bay of Pigs...
...How dare anyone who did not live that life belittle Richard Wright's portrait of black Southern life...
...Now I see my error: I've been trying to raise my children to be like me...
...PAULA MOORE Correspondent People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Virginia P.S...
...Of course, these billboards were not really aimed at changing bigots' minds but at "doing something...
...I don't blame E.N...
...The French comic your correspondent has in mind may be Max Linder...
...THAYER SMITH, M.D...
...Any of us in the fields of American history, government, or law, should know that this 1789 act put back, or made possible through U.S...
...Guess what...
...Careful now...
...He appeared in France as a member of a Kamo touring company...
...Fortunately, consumers can still enjoy hot dogs without eating leftover pig parts or promoting animal abuse...
...JENNY NOLAN Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan I bought the October '97 American Spectator to read the article by Kenneth S. Lynn ("What Civil Rights Movement...
...LOUIS WINNICK New York, New York Oscar Whiner Please allow me to respond to your diatribe criticizing PETA for trying to derail Oscar Mayer's Wienermobile tour (The Continuing Crisis, TAS, September 1997...
...Of the six-to-eight thousand guerrillas trapped inside Tibet, at most a few hundred escaped massacre...
...CHARLES H. KENDALL, JR...
...law schools and to senior foreign diplomatic and military personnel, among many other responsibilities, but was never made aware of what I am about to relate, until recently by non-policy wonk friends...
...You don't leave a guy in the middle of a pitched battle," he says evenly...
...I before E, boys...
...CHARLES PERRY Sylmar, California Where's the Beef...
...Indeed, this sort of cranial instability is a sort of taxonomic marker for the modem, allegedly (but not really) liberty-loving conservative, as opposed to his libertarian counterpart, whose head remains steady when the question turns to matters of individual liberty...
...A book of statistics compiled by two whites (even if they are from Harvard) and supported by a white writer, even in the Spectator, cannot be taken seriously, because none of them lived the life of a pre-civil rights era Negro...
...Although the case officer blames Galbraith for abandoning the guerrillas, given Kennedy's knowledge of Galbraith's views, the decision to vest final decision-making power in the ambassador was tantamount to withholding approval...
...Even when I disagree with her, I know that I could never win the argument...
...As the author of Tramp, another recent biography of Chaplin, I would hate to see this misinformation go unchallenged...
...Havertown, Pennsylvania Black and White I have just finished Kenneth Lynn's review of America in Black and White...
...SAL MARINELLO Maplewood, New Jersey The American Spectator December r 9 97 85...
...Bud Hughes] leaves me no choice (Correspondence, TAS, October 1997...
...These authors each state that God is out of our laws, as He should be...
...But to suggest that he stole the Little Tramp—and from a Frenchman yet— is simply not accurate...
...Unfortunately, these testimonials also proved to be Chaplin's curse...
...The whole group was annihilated," says the ex-CIA official...
...Based on Major Ropka's track record, there is little doubt that he could have handled the last Tibetan resupply mission without incident The CIA officer argued with Galbraith as tenaciously as he could, but was overruled...
...However the response to my letter from the fine, upstanding liberal from the great state of Nebraska [Mr...
...They were wrong when they stopped to fight a pitched battle with the Chinese...
...Unfortunately, Joseph C. Brown, III is far from the first conservative to go wobbly in the head on the matter of defending liberty when the liberty defended is someone else's idea of a good time, rather than one's own...
...He was a very annoying man...
...With its major force wiped out, the CIA operation was reduced to minor cross-border raids and harassment of the Chinese occupation forces...
...She is erudite, witty, and always right on-target...
...Marshals), and unconstitutional oaths of office...
...Edwards for being annoyed with Chaplin...
...Bob Kerrey still doesn't get it after two years he never will...
...Edwards's letter about Charlie Chaplin without a reply from Kenneth S. Lynn (Correspondence, TAS, October 1997...
...The liberals' first line of defense is name calling...
...Bethell becomes an accomplice to the tyranny...
...The amount of beef cited would simply define an understood collective noun, thus: "A shipment (of lot) of beef, amounting to 25 million pounds, is recalled...
...By contrast, observe the following selection of bylines culled from recent issues of the paper: Anemona Hartocollis, Sana Siwolop, David Kocieniewski, Judith Dobrzynski, Garry Pierre-Pierre, Carol Kaesuk-Yoon, Somini Sengupta, challenges all to the eye and tongue...
...It went against everything we trained them to do...
...The case officer wants to make it clear that he knew the covert war would have ended, sooner or later...
...If this constituent of Sen...
...Freeland, and all other TAS readers should get a complete copy—and read it carefully—of the Judiciary Act of 1789, which deceitfully completes the deliberately unfinished Judiciary Article III of our U.S...
...VICTORIA SINGER East Burke, Vermont God Is in the Details Re "Madison Avenues," Correspondence, TAS, October 1997: Problems with our Constitution go all the way back to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and the authors of the Federalist Papers...
...My view was it wouldn't hurt a damned bit to do one more drop...
...What bothered him was the betrayal...
...Several English comics did claim to have invented the Little Tramp character, but all failed to make a case for themselves, either in court or in the numerous early films which featured Tramp look-alikes...
...It was a shell of its former self when it was officially canceled in 1968 under Richard Helms...
...Professor Weeks, Mr...
...Attorneys, U.S...
...Russell Kirk was right in saying we are under an archonocracy...
...After reading TAS for the last two years, especially the last two years, this husker liberal considers TAS "the enemy...
...Bethell isn't as much a "conspiracy nut" as he is one of the more generic variety...
...Somewhere there is a needy individual who really could use that copy of TAS...
...On a typical factory farm, pigs are crammed into crates barely larger than their own bodies, pumped full of hormones and antibiotics, fed offal and other junk, and then unceremoniously shipped to slaughter...
...Today China is entrenched in Tibet, newly triumphant in Hong Kong, and reasserting its sovereignty over Taiwan...
...I know that a few years ago there were some Irish of the victim persuasion who were claiming for Ireland third world status: in the sense that much of Africa is also third world, perhaps an Irishman could be seen as "black...
...Oki Correspondence (Continuedfrompage 12) it was the perennial one: Learn to admire me as I have learned to admire myself...
...A fitting of a headline into an always limited space demands often heroic economy of words...
...Come on, American Spectator: You and Jesse Helms may run us black conservatives away from the movement...
...Presumably, a racist was going to say to himself, "I've been wrong, so terribly wrong...
...MALCOLM M. MCGAWN Vista, California All the Names Fit to Print In his October Presswatch John Corry noted that the last conclave of the American Society of Newspaper Editors resounded with the New York Times' concern for diversity in the newsroom...
...He came to believe his own publicity, forgetting that it is quite possible to be a pantomime "genius" and, simultaneously, a workmanlike composer, a director of real but limited gifts, an intellectual poseur, and an utter fool about politics...
...it beats hands down an honest debate of the issues...
...By then, many years had passed since he ushered the young Sam Cummings into Allen Dulles's office, and put into motion the arming of CIA's secretwarriors in Tibet American diplomacy was shifting...
...In Hog Farm magazine, a USDA official confirmed that "hot dogs contain skeletal muscles, along with parts of pork stomach, snout, intestines, spleens, edible fat, and yes, lips...
...There are also the "Black Irish," but I think this usually refers to hair color...
...I've been such a fool...
...Ignoring the message we're used to in L.A...
...WALLACE PEACE, PH.D...
...that our famous riots were the fault of white racism), I wondered what possible real-world effect this campaign was supposed to have...
...Tibet's military resistance is dead, but its human rights campaign, launched as a CIA Cold War propaganda operation, endures...
...Senator lawyer-Founders, headed by Oliver Ellsworth (CT) and William Patterson (NJ), pushed through the House by Rep...
...JOHN F. RICHARDSON Bordentown, New Jersey Husked When I composed my tongue-in-cheek letter claiming that liberals subscribe to TAS just to cancel and create the appearance that there is a break in the conservative ranks, I did not intend to get into a "point-counterpoint" situation...
...While you were looking up "invidious" in the dictionary, you should have checked on the spelling of "wiener...
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