To the editor
I want to thank Dr. Kindfield for reminding us once again (in the May 1 Beacon) about the need to educate ourselves on the issues of the day.
Some people might find Dr. Kindfield condescending when she apparently assumes most Americans are empty-headed blood relatives of Homer Simpson, drawing their naive opinions entirely from what is fed to them by big, bad corporate media outlets.
But don’t forget Dr. Kindfield is an educator (in case you didn’t know), and I believe she truly wants to be helpful. So in an effort to help her better educate my ill-informed Hillsborough neighbors about what’s really going on the world, I surfed the net and found the following insightful Web sites:
Blame-america-first.com Learn all about how the US government is responsible for every problem on the planet. For example, did you know that the CIA unleashed SARS in China to bring about "regime change" in Beijing? And do you think it is a coincidence that, after China, the country most impacted by SARS is Canada? This non-partisan and unbiased Web site goes on to report that the CIA is developing an even more insidious virus to be used against the French.
America-made-me-do-it.com Here we discover that some of the world’s greatest dictators and tyrants, from Hitler to Saddam to Castro, are simply misunderstood. In fact, they had no choice but to murder millions of their own citizens in order to save them from the great evils of baseball, apple pie and Chevrolets.
If it were not for US interference, this non-partisan and unbiased Web site tells us, Hitler fully intended to build theme parks instead of death camps and Saddam planned to use his many palaces and bunkers as hospitals and homeless shelters. The web site is currently hard at work on a theory explaining how the United States last month tricked Castro into accidentally jailing and executing Cuban dissidents.
Unjust-war.com Citing non-partisan and unbiased left-wing sources, this Web site documents how every military action ever undertaken by the United States was illegal and unjust.
In the Revolutionary War, for example, forces commanded by another right-wing extremist named George unilaterally and without the approval of a yet-to-be-created Congress waged a shock and awe campaign against the British at Yorktown.
Then, in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, who somehow was elected president without a grade-school education let alone a Ph.D., mislead the American people into believing military force was necessary to end slavery.
At the time, the Hillsborough Beacon reported that as many as eight local residents staged an anti-war protest march on Old Amwell Road. While acknowledging that slavery was wrong, the demonstrators argued that Lincoln was a toady for rich northern capitalists who wanted control of the South’s cotton fields. The protestors held signs proclaiming "(un)Civil War is Not the Answer," "No Blood for Cotton" and "Lincoln is a Baby Killer." Among the marchers were an escaped slave and a veteran of the Indian Wars, whose presence, according to an organizer, gave the protest greater credibility (Footnote: Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was the first in the now long line of bad actors turned political activists.).
Republicans-steal-elections.com Most Americans are aware that George W. Bush stole the 2000 election from Al Gore by taking advantage of people who couldn’t master the engineering principles related to punching a hole cleanly through a piece of paper.
Now, for the first time, this unbiased and non-partisan Web site reports that Ronald Reagan in 1984 likewise ripped off Walter Mondale. The evidence, circumstantial but compelling, is based on the obvious fact that there is no way that someone who attended a small, Midwestern college could legitimately out-poll a liberal with a law degree (i.e., a doctorate in law). The Web site is now investigating evidence that George W. and George H. Bush both had their fingers crossed when they took the oath of office.
Having taken Dr. Kindfield’s well intentioned advise, I am now confident that if every person in Hillsborough would just take the time to inform themselves about the unbiased and non-partisan facts of American history, the ranks of the local protestors could well double to 16.
As for myself, I need a little more convincing. Call me Doubting …
Flemming Drive

