[Vhfcn-l] Please consider

[Mike Baker]

I agree with you on our rights 

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> On Apr 9, 2020, at 9:34 AM, Gary Thewlis via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:
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> Sorry to be slow reacting – as a couple of you also commented email delivery
> seems to be a bit impacted at present. Late yesterday I received all the
> VHFCN traffic for this week to include my own musings posting from early
> Monday.
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> I do agree that politics and, yes, religion, are poor subjects for debate
> and contention. Faith is not an argument, not something to “wave in my face”
> if I recall the comment correctly. I do think faith plays more than a small
> part in politics these days, hence the grouping.
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> "but to save so much that is, frankly, under siege.”
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> What I am trying to say without triggering just reflex responses is what
> seems to me to be the proactive degradation to dismantlement of the
> constitution and government. I do not think this is brand new, nor do I
> think it is the “fault” of one side alone. But that “trend”, if you will, is
> no longer within the boundaries of established and accepted behavior where
> power is concerned. I believe that established, accepted, and respected
> behavior by all helps insure dialogue and compromise can best achieve actual
> representative results. We the people are disappearing, while us the right
> and them the wrong is ascendant. 
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> Maybe I am Mr. Smith Goes to Washington naïve.
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> I recall Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent, wherein an attack on one
> Congressman was ultimately countered with bipartisan rejection. I also
> recall a John Kennedy speech where he declared that both Republicans and
> Democrats were equally patriotic, the differences being in how they did
> things. 
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> But I am starting to rant, right? And that will achieve nothing.
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> What I do ask is please look at what is happening with a long lens, looking
> back as well as forward. And think about consequences, mot just results.
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> Again, trying to avoid trigger points, I worry about:
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> *    Temporary or “acting” secretaries of major government agencies
> without congressional approval
> *    The weaponized use of social media
> *    The role of news media
> *    The apparent abdication of the Senate
> *    The unprecedented retention of financial interests by this president
> during tenure and its attendant appearance if not reality of conflict with
> the responsibilities of office
> *    The frank and ongoing attacks on voting rights everywhere
> *    And, perhaps most telling, the lack of leadership needed now to
> combat covid-19
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> There is much more, but still trying to avoid conflict.
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> Headed for the bunker now…………………..
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> Gary Thewlis
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