PDJT FBI hostage negotiator

Today's extra special: two for one JG rants
Re: Bill Forsythe's letter "A call for sanity" of Jun 17, 2018

It’s wonderful to know that the left remains in the total state of shock that descended on them at about 9 pm on Nov 8, 2016.  Take Bill Forsythe’s award winning, factually challenged, snark-filled letter of Sun Jun 17^th.  Just about every contention contained therein is pure rubbish.

Contrary to Forsythe’s claim, since throwing off our limey overlords in 1783, American history is replete with actions of American citizen-soldiers defending their homes and the nation; Shay’s Rebellion, Whiskey Rebellion, the Northwest Indian War, Tecumseh’s Rebellion, the War of 1812, etc. etc. etc. 

If all of those are too ancient for historic illiterates, try WWII when a Japanese invasion of Hawaii and the west coast was thought to be inevitable.  The Germans shelled a port in Massachusetts and often spirited agents ashore the Atlantic coast.

Still too far back?  Try the aftermath of any wide-scale natural or man-made disaster when feral street gangs roam unchecked taking what they want and imposing their own kind of Mad Max-like order on the streets.

It doesn’t even have to be a mob.  Two radical Islamist terror fascist shut down the city of Boston for three days.

Since he seems to believe the constitution needs to be updated to account for every modern convenience, I suppose Forsythe wrote his own letter with a quill and ink on parchment then handed it to the town crier for publication. Forsythe thinks that we should all agree that “some revision” to our two century old constitution is in order.  Apparently the constitution is so old, Forsythe hasn’t had time to read it.  Check out Article V.

Then in what seems to be a requirement for anti-gun letters run in the JG, Forsythe inserts hunting into the argument.  The 27 plain words of the Second Amendment are not about hunting.

Forsythe wraps up his piece calling for “sane gun laws.” Is he aware there are already over 20,000 gun laws on the books?  I’m sure just one more will be the panacea. 

A call for sanity

On April 15, some 300 make-believe militia men toting semi-automatic firesticks of freedom rallied in Fort Wayne to proclaim their inviolate gun rights. An organizer invoked the Redcoats as his rationale for owning an assault rifle.

One day later - one day! - The Journal Gazette reported two new shootings in Fort Wayne, with another article about country music stars memorializing 58 people killed last year in a mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas. That same day on the editorial page, letter writer Stan Needham accused all accursed progressives of having a secret agenda to repeal the Second Amendment. Speaking as a progressive, allow me to assure Needham that in a society as violent and gun fetishistic as ours, repeal is impossible. Anyway, a whopping 5 percent of all Americans still need guns to hunt.

However, Needham must concede that some revision to a document written two centuries ago by slaveholders in powdered wigs is in order. In other words, now that we've beaten the Brits, we can put the guns away.

Finally, as if two more bullet-riddled crime scenes in our city only one day after the bring-your-rifle rally weren't tragic irony enough, it turns out the alleged assailant and both of his wounded victims in one of the shootings are children: ages 14, 14 and 9, respectively. Enough! Let's demand sane gun laws, now.

Bill Forsythe of Fort Wayne

Re: Daniel O'Neil's letter, "Immigration policy unchristian" of Jun 17, 2018

I encourage Daniel O’Neil to engage in this thought experiment.  Imagine a man loads up a couple of kids in the neighborhood promising to take them to Cedar Point. 

The man speeds down the highway recklessly at over 100 miles per hour.  When the police pull him over, he cries that the cop is unchristian because he stopped him with his kids.

When he gets to the Point, he speeds by the parking attendant.  When park security catches up with him he cries foul because he’s with his kid.

Then the man takes the kids to the side of the park and they all climb over the fence entering the park without paying.  When park security stops them again, the man is upset demanding leniency because, after all, the kids.

Inside the park the man walks past a long line of park goers, some with their own kids, and inserts himself and the kids at the head of the line.  When people protest, he tells them that they are unchristian and that they have to let them go first because of the kids.

When the man takes the kids to park store he encourages them to take whatever they want without paying.  Having had enough of the man, he is arrested and the kids detained.  The man demands that the kids be returned to him to serve out their time in an adult detention center with murderers, rapist and thieves or turned lose back into the park if they promise to show up for a hearing on the matter scheduled in a year or so. 

Now, just who is being unchristian?  The people maintaining order and safety, or the irresponsible man who puts himself and the kids at risk and above the rules at every step of this journey?

Immigration policy unchristian

I just would like to ask my fellow Catholics and those Christian evangelicals who are, like myself, “pro life,” where is your outcry at the Trump administration as they take children away from their parents as they try to enter our country?

I realize the legal issue of entering our country illegally is a large question, but how can we who call ourselves Christians stand by and say nothing as children are taken from their parents? Vice President Mike Pence and Rep. Jim Banks often use their “pro life” position in their political ads and talks; maybe it's time for both of these men to put on their big-boy pants and stand up against this inhuman practice.

The good Lord said, “Bring me the children.” Maybe these two Christian men should think about that.

Daniel O'Neill

Fort Wayne

New Fox TV SitCom, PDJT Hostage Negotiator
If you think of PDJT’s N Korea summit with Kim as a hostage negotiation it makes sense.

If you have ever happened to watch a TV or movie that involves an FBI hostage negotiator – one that’s presumably not a politically motivated d-bag – they most often engage the perp in a calm voice.  They establish a list of the perp’s demands.  Often they will cede the perp some of his demands, food water etc. in order to establish trust.  Sometimes they give the appearance of cooperating with the perp to buy time to get the breach team in place.  The goal is always to get the hostages out alive and apprehend the perp.  Everyone watching understands the dance.

So every week PDJT negotiates the release of a high profile hostage.  In the pilot PDJT and special guest star Denis Rodman negotiate with Kim Jung Un for the release of Kim’s barber – taken hostage after a particularly bad haircut. Enter PDJT - hostage negotiator!

PDJT:  Come on Kim!  You’re whole shtick is a bad haircut.

Kim:  This one really bad!

PDJT:  YGBSM!  How the hell can you tell?  Have you seen your haircut?  Do you they have mirrors in N. Korea?  

In a gunfight, I prefer to be armed with a gun rather than pepper spray

There is an age old adage; Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.  Colorado congressional candidate Levi Tillman got the message – sort of. Tillman actually thinks it’s smart to bring pepper spray to a gunfight. 

I don’t know how stupid the people in this Colorado district are, but would anyone with half a brain actually think to engage in a duel with an armed man at 20 paces armed with nothing more than pepper spray? 

Maybe that’s what happened to Alexander Hamilton.  He showed up to his duel with Arron Burr armed with pepper spray instead of a pistol. I may post that to Wikipedia siting Tillman’s ad as a source.