Today's JG rant: The fewer the facts the better for JG editors

The JG editorial page takes a left leaning look at the world.  Fine.  It’s their ink.  Ask yourself this question:  Does the JG have any responsibility to ensure what appears on this page is true.  I’m not talking about subjects like “tot or fries” where debate can rage without any real harm or winner.

I’m talking about the Tim Tiernon fact-free opinion type letters like “End sanctions to attack nations’ common enemy” of May 9, 2020. In his ill-informed letter Tiernon states, “We cannot claim to wage humanitarian wars while blocking medical supplies.”  Yeesh how misinformed can one guy be? 

In his daily briefings PDJT has made it clear he would help any country seeking assistance with the Chinese Virus. He has in fact offered the world medical assistance to including our enemies like China, Venezuelan, N Korea, Russia and Iran.  

Tiernon goes on to tell we are committing “crimes against humanity” because the Democrats' favorite rapist, Bill Clinton, signed something called the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. That opinion is so 2000.   

Bill Clinton may have taken a break from sexually assaulting females who entered the Oval Office long enough to sign the document, but when he got back to his main business of forcing himself on any women who dare pass too close, he didn’t bother to submit the piece of rubbish to the senate for ratification.

G. W. Bush effectively un-signed the document 2002 when he notified the UN that United States had no intention to ratify the treaty, and as such had no obligation to follow any of the garbage contained within.  When Tiernon uses the plural to tell us that “our sanctions are a crime against humanity,” he’s wrong again.  The articles contained in the unratified globalist dung heap can only be applied to individuals not countries or organizations. 

Nice try Tim.  Lucky thing you live in Ft. Wayne where local editors will print anything no matter how poorly researched as long as it’s anti-American or anti Trump.  If you lived in a town where the paper hired real editors, your nonsense would never see the light of day.  

End sanctions to attack nations' common enemy

One third of Earth's population is actively avoiding COVID-19. City, state and national action can be effective if the novel coronavirus is a one-time event.

As much as we would like it to go away, epidemiologists believe the virus will recur. We haven't had this type of pandemic for a century, but self-interest should create a better global response.

The United States can lend that response by ending economic sanctions on 38 countries that comprise a third of the world's population. We cannot claim to wage humanitarian wars while blocking medical supplies.

Healthy, well-fed people are more resistant to disease. U.S. sanctions are intended to make the economies of countries we don't like “scream.”

The countries we sanction are often guilty of electing leaders we don't like or rejecting corporate suitors.                                                                                                                                                                   

Our sanctions are a crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute signed by President Bill Clinton.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we recognized that defeating COVID-19 (and future pandemics) is more important than economic warfare?

The state of Indiana has taken time out of its busy day to sanction Iran. We cannot hurt others without hurting ourselves.

Polio and smallpox did not die out; they were eradicated by vaccines.

Global pandemics require coordinated global response. We cannot allow 38 countries to be a reservoir for COVID-19.

Ending our economic sanctions is the first step in defeating our real enemy.

Tim Tiernon