[Vhfcn-l] Statement

[VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew]

 Very good!

> On Aug 27, 2019, at 12:45 PM, VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> wrote:
> 
> I avoid controversy in general, certainly in my weekly Monday musings
> posting. I know what I believe and do not think it my job or mission to
> proselytize or promote. 
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> 
> But I think things are beyond serious now in this country, headed for real
> trouble.
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> 
> Last year I sent a letter to my state and federal elected representatives
> that I have copied below. It definitely places me politically, but it also
> highlights the dangers I worry about, and I believe those dangers are real
> whether you lean conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat.
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> That little or nothing has changed since I wrote this a little over a year
> ago now only underlines my concerns, and what has happened since
> categorically only worsens those concerns. I do not expect you to agree with
> me on all this, but please, please take seriously the erosion of so much
> that is the real issue.
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> 
> Thank you,
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> 
> Gary Thewlis
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> From July 2018:
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> We used to be the good guys. 
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> That is gone, gone for a generation or two at minimum if things change
> rapidly and we as a country hold to those values squandered and re-establish
> the trust lost. If not gone for good. My apologies to
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Burdick> Eugene Burdick and
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lederer> William Lederer for ever
> considering them extreme in their characterizations in The Ugly American.
> Even they had no idea.
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> 
> Rule of law must be paramount if we are to keep our identity as a country.
> Help ensure Robert Mueller is allowed to do and complete his job.  He is
> doing it by the book without hyperbole, and that work is critical to our
> nation's future.
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> 
> My generation grew up and lived with Medicare. We count on it and we planned
> our retirement years with it as part of the foundation of those years. I
> will not say no changes will be needed, but I do not want see the promises
> of Medicare discarded like trade agreements of late. One thing I will say -
> no privatization! Leave it a government function and responsibility,
> otherwise it will be a near term future casualty of raiding and malfeasance.
> Count on it. 
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> And, shocking as every day tends to be, less attention should be paid to the
> man in front of the curtains and more to those behind them. A constant and
> compelling distraction, day to day legislative actions seem to pass without
> notice. The deficit? Unbelievable. The gutting of environmental safeguards?
> The changes to undermine collective bargaining rights? Of consumer
> protection rights? The pure purchase of our elected officials by powerful
> interests no longer even trying to pretend otherwise?
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> Fake news? Yes, of course. Even has its own network in FOX. But news no
> longer applies, the term should be marketing as that is what is being done.
> Deny, deny, deny, and repeat loudly and often. 
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> The mid-term elections are crucial.  Yes, I believe many if not most
> Democrats are as involved with interest groups and money as Republicans, but
> the balance to halt or even slow the changes now going on is critical. I
> wonder if our country can survive even another two years with Republican
> control of all 3 branches and with that demagogue in the White House.
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> And finally, the treatment of families at the borders as less than human?
> The treatment of their children?  Who the HELL are we anymore? Regardless of
> feelings on immigration and impact on our country, the separation of parents
> and children is a moral issue first, distinct and apart from legalities of
> citizenship. Those who implemented this policy and those complicit by
> supporting or remaining neutral are not worthy of respect and certainly not
> of office.
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> You are one of my elected officials. No politician represents all of their
> electorate's wishes, not possible. I do ask you to reflect on sanity,
> personal and political, local, national and global, and then to at least try
> and stem the evident dismantling and dismemberment of our democracy and our
> culture.
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