Sen. Gillibrand has lurched left
The fulsome air of Marxian President Barack Hussein Obama's Washington and Majority Leader Harry Reid's Senate has at length, apparently, wondrously affected Kirsten Gillibrand. A "moderate" Democrat House member, Gillibrand, following her Senate appointment, launched leftward, joining the left-wing radicals that are, with Obama, herding her Democrat Party into endless night.
After flip-flopping on same-sex "marriage," illegal immigration, gun control, government frugality and a strong military, Gillibrand confirmed her dash leftward by voting (with six others) to continue government funding of corrupt ACORN. Even Chuck Schumer and 86 other senators voted to scrap the funding. As has the House. (The Census Bureau and IRA have severed all ties to the odious outfit.)
Despite casting a tepid "reprehensible" at some ACORN iniquities Gillibrand justified her vote: "Thousands of New York families ... facing foreclosure depend on charitable organizations like ACORN for assistance." (New York Post, Sept. 16, Page 38). That assertion breathes profound ignorance or deliberate guilt.
The senator is not ignorant, but knows of ACORN's pernicious shenanigans, from voter fraud to illicit advice on establishing brothels and staffing them with underage girls (sex slaves?) illegally imported from Central America. She is, though, craving backing from the socialist Working Families Party (co-founded by ACORN) for her 2010 senatorial election bid.
On a positive note, I submit the following good-faith suggestions to seal Gillibrand's standing among the radical leftists: (1) Emulate Obama and Jimmy Carter and at every opportunity apologize for America's evils; (2) impute racism to Obama's critics, especially those tea-party rednecks; (3) hail cap-and-trade (tax) and national health care; and (4) revile often the "vast right-wing conspiracy."
Whereupon ponder Galatians 1:10, in the New Testament.
The Rev. Mitch Wright
Stamford
Wright is pastor of Hope Presbyterian Church.
Know what true libertarianism is
Words such as privilege, self-aggrandizement, capitalistic and socialistic used in Timothy Gibson's recent letter to the editor are mere window dressing to conceal Mr. Gibson's ignorance of "true" libertarianism.
Philosophically, libertarianism cares not about the forms of organization that result when humans interact, only about the means that brought about those ends. Therefore, it is OK when a group of people voluntarily work together to benefit each member of the group such as do the Amish, the Mormons, and policy holders in an insurance company. However, when individuals are forced to be involved in a social arrangement, as in a military draft, Social Security "insurance," or Dr. Ron Paul being forced to provide medical services against his will, the libertarian rightfully cries foul. To use an example from my own profession: It is fine to solicit apple growers from our state to voluntarily contribute to a fund used to promote the sale of New York state apples, but it is wrong to use the state government to force all apple growers to participate (as unfortunately is the case).
This is really very simple logic and is the only sure path to the free society so many claim to desire. Too bad it goes over the heads of far more than those who get it.
Jamie Potter
Otego
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