Editor,
The future seems pretty bleak judging by the news forecasts and government edicts of possible future attacks on our country. I am not worried as I think we have seen the worst. I believe that if Osama bin Laden and his band of lunatics had the capability to do anything close to what they did in New York City, they would have done it. In the last hundred years we have endured two world wars, the Vietnam War, the Korean "police action," the Great Depression, the Holocaust, race riots, political assassinations, religious intolerance (killing Matthew Shepard) bombing abortion clinics), Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin and others.
We listen to verbal diarrhea from the Rush Limbaughs of the world and subject ourselves to the hate-filled rhetoric of people like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Osama bin Laden, all of whom have a convoluted concept of God.
We elected a morally bankrupt president and appointed another one who couldn't get elected, both of whom turned out to rise to the occasion in their respective administrations, the first on fixing a terrible economy and the second on his handling of the World Trade Center catastrophe.
In spite of all the negativism, intolerance, violence and rhetoric, we still survive as a species and as Americans. Humankind is capable of many wonderful and generous acts of kindness and benevolence, yet they are always overshadowed by the viciousness in the news.
Look at the firemen, police officers and other rescue workers in New York and you will see the best man has to offer. These are the people who bring out the best in our species. People such as bin Laden, Hitler, Falwell, Amin, the lunatics who killed Matthew Brady and blow up abortion clinics and the rest of the subhuman culture will end up in the historical toilet bowl to be flushed into oblivion.
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We survived the 20th century in spite of every obstacle put in our way. The 21st century recently started and we will survive it to.
Richard Fagerlund
B.C.E. Environmental Services
