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Richard Viguerie Weighs In

10.30.07 @ 12:01AM

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Apart from the above, I agree with the Author that a celebration of St. Crispin's Day could be a rallying point for English speaking Western countries to stop denigrating their own culture and history and stop being so damn wimpish...
-- David Hughes-Jones
Australia

ARMED AND DEFENDED
Re: Jay D. Homnick's An Unsettling State:

The missing item in this story, and the VITAL link, is that Ms. Sjokin should most certainly have been armed and able to defend herself. It is not possible for the "state" to protect us, and most certainly is not a good thing when it tries -- let alone when it seems to succeed.

The glaring hole left by your failure to even mention the need for self-defense -- self responsibility -- actually begs the whole point of the article. What a shame.
-- Susan Callaway
Editor, The Price of Liberty

Jay D. Homnick replies:
Well, yes, she could defend herself with a gun, providing

a) she was not overpowered from behind without warning;
b) the gun was handy within the response time available;
c) she could get it into firing position to get off a good shot.

If not, the gun is either useless or indeed a liability if the attacker can confiscate it and have a weapon more powerful than whatever he brought.

To say the state has no role in defending us with police forces, or by incarcerating violent criminals, is overwrought if not irrational. However, there are certainly gaps in potential government security that self-defense can shrink but not entirely close. The last piece is God's.

LET'S FACE FACTS
Re: Rick Arand's letter (under "Irreconcilable Differences?") in Reader Mail's Dishwasher Gate:

The social and fiscal conservatives HAVE made progress -- can you not see? Did you not read this article? Whatever you think of the standard bearers of the Republican Party, do you REALLY want those humbug hillbillies from Hope back in the White House with the Madwoman from San Francisco as Speaker to continue her reign of terror in the house? I suspect she would be much more successful with Queen Hillary in power.

Those who want to throw out the baby with the bath water are silly at least, and dangerous at best. If you want someone better, why don't you or Dobson run? It takes a lot of time and money and of course most Christians do not want to soil themselves. Look at how John Ashcroft was demonized by the press. You may continue to believe the good is the enemy of the perfect, but I do NOT want to be seeing those two shysters back again.
-- Janis Johnson
Independence, Missouri

ROUND THREE
Re: Paul Nelson's' letter (under "Here's Really Why") in Reader Mail's Dishwasher Gate:

I believe that the Other Paul completely missed the point of my letter: that each of the people in question, including Benazir Bhutto, was at least attempting to make their respective nations a better place to live. I said nothing about how well they succeeded; I only maintained that they shouldn't be mocked for trying.
-- Paul LaRue
P.S. As for Corazon Aquino having done "nothing," are you maintaining that the Philippines would have been better off under the Marcos regime? You know, the one with the rigged "elections" and the assassination of political opponents?

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