To the Editor:
“All you have to fear—is—fear itself.” F.D.R.
This is a direct response to Mr. Caldwell’s 2-11-2010 letter.
Carroll County Prosecutor Tim Smiley was found shot in the head in an abandoned area in Magnolia.
Carrollton High School Speech Teacher Todd Casper was found burning, doused with gasoline, in a remote area near Magnolia.
Sheriff’s Deputy Mark McConnaughy was killed in a four-car accident.
None of these happened within a “secure building.”
The events surrounding McConnaughy’s April 16, 1992, accident are curious and perplexing:
The accident occurred at 2:30 pm. [Mr. McConnaughy may have been driving to work (shift change).] Mr. McConnaughy was southbound on Avalon Rd, approaching the intersection of S.R. 171. He was struck headon by Mr. Kintzel, who was driving northbound, passing two northbound vehicles. The accident occured .1 of a mile inward of S.R. 171.
Law of physics: The vehicle traveling the slowest gets the most damage.
Mr. McConnaughy is slowing towards the stop sign.
How can one be hit so hard as to cause fatal injuries within .1 of a mile—from either slowing and turning a ninety-degree angle onto Avalon? Or, from stopping and crossing 171 and beginning speed behind two other vehicles, mind you?
Mr. McConnaughy’s accident occured at 2:30 p.m. He was transported to Aultman Hospital. Six hours later, 8 p.m., he was life-flighted to Akron General. Three and 1/4 hours later, Mr. McConnaughy died in emergency surgery.
One might question, what transpired before assistance arrived? There’s a scenario for you, Mr. Caldwell.
Point of fact is, a mere metal detector within one hallway of one building will not sustain you.
Matter-of-fact, the metal detector can’t save one from tuberculosis; as was the scare on an international flight by a passenger who was deemed unsafe to fly; as the disease was pronounced ‘contagious.’
To note: I never write to inflict. I write to point out fact. The object: resolution.
If the United States government and those filtering down in command beneath its hallowed “We the People...” persecute guilty before innocence; then truly, in hundreds of years, we have turned backward.
If “what if,” takes precendence over fact, then we have no law.
In observation of “what ifs,” I’m curious how many boards, consultants, etc. demand “what if” be applied and enacted. In this sense, “We the People...” are Britishly and Draconianly guilty, without a single question of innocence.
July 11, 2009, the AP finally revealed details: “...unprecendented surveillance pulled in information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping but shielded almost all details on grounds they’re still too secret to reveal. Mr. Ashcroft was not aware until March 2004 of the exact nature of the operations that he had been approving for 2 1/2 years. Most of the intelligence leads did not have any connection to terrorism, the report said.
Billions spent by fear-mongering and perhaps, greater aspiration, for “history,” with seething motive: “...that guy tried to kill my dad...” (although W. never said, if Sadaam tried to have H.W. killed when he was CIA director for a year, or President).
Turned out there were no mass weapons of destruction in Iraq.
Couldn’t just let diplomacy work. Couldn’t trust the inspectors do their job.
To see diplomacy applied, observe the Cold War and Cuban Missile crisis. All were worked out by terms, not bombs.
A date: Nine months: a pregnancy of tactic. Who is 911 relevant to except Americans? If I were an enemy-of-state, why would I wait to use a ‘marketable tactic’—to subconsciously twist every American mind to a personal date of banshee sirens (recalling when one needed to dial the number of emergency, for assistance)?
On any given day, there are foreign sounding names on any national flight. The TV show Seinfeld made light of the fact that in the international city of New York there are foreign sounding names applied to average Americans (white, and of quite established generations) [:a polish love interest who shortened her name to Chang, from Changstein, fooling Mrs. Costanza into taking advice from her simply because she was Chinese and the associated wisdom of the culture steeped in Tea (Reference to an Eastern philosophy work: A Book of Tea; I include this as Iraq is deemed the ‘cradle of civilizations’ by archaeologists.].
Pro golfer Payne Stewart’s plane flew by itself. The military scrambled to assist.
We are not an unprepared nation. And by the surprise of Mr. Stewart’s plane, we were not unprepared for such technology in use some years later in 2001.
As the First US Secretary of Treasury and First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court point out: “...(There exist)...a certain class of men in every state to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power of the offices they hold; ?And the perverted ambition, of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves...from the subdivisions...under one government.” (Fed Paper 1)
To condense Fed Paper 1: it means, what is pertinent to the position, will be sounded with trumpets, without considering balanced needs of all positions; for one only sees the world through the daily, repetitive act of the position limited to, by paycheck, and no other.
Our first three Presidents, First Cabinet members, First Supreme Court, and men surrounding the War of Independence—would be considered ‘terrorists,’ by the use of their words, through standards applied under the Patriot Act:
“Justice is not the same thing in America as it is in Britain: You do not listen to us; You gave us nothing; You are cheating us; You are unfair; You take back what you have given us; You punish the innocent; You play favorites.” Thomas Jefferson.
“...Betrayed with a kiss...Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find, which have not been already exhausted? I know not what course others take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.” Patrick Henry.
“The People should never rise without doing something to be remembered -something notable and striking. This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible and it must have important Consequences, and so lasting, that I can’t but consider it as an Epocha in History.” John Adams.
What history writes of such (note to ‘W.’ on his “...history will prove me right...”): “There was nothing majestic, or sublime, in the spectacle of white men disguised as Indians and Negroes, shrieking with delight, as they heaved chests into the harbor. It became so, because a foolish British government—chose to regard the Tea Party, not as mere mob violence, but as an act of insurrection.” Fawn Brodie (Historian)
In context, I’m curious about what standards of ‘what ifs’ the Carroll County EMA board devised? And to whom it applied.
If Mr. Lloyd hadn’t been arrested for aggravated menacing whereby my neighbor became EMA director would he have engaged his words of common sense? From September 14, 1994, (let-to-Ed.): “The tactics used in that letter were scare tactics and nothing else.”
If we apply standards adopted in the flames of 9-11, we are still an unprepared nation, ungrown in thought and deed.
After all, our U.S. Constitution was re-written: “...when cooler temperaments prevailed...” (Fed Paper).
Open up the halls of justice. When they are shut, so is justice.
We have lived for nine years under the metaphor: Justice is a side door.
Ann Yeager
Carrollton, OH
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