Editor,
In his letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo, Brian Fejer shows once again that he is long on rhetoric yet lacking in the due diligence department.
He says the 25th Amendment should be invoked in order to install a caretaker government. Has he ever even read the 25th Amendment? It says absolutely nothing about dissolution of government pending an election or other occurrence. It is an amendment that deals with filling the vacancy of the office of vice president and conferring the powers of the presidency to the vice president when the president is unable to discharge the duties of the office.
Anyone who is willing to do some work before shooting off a letter can read the text of the 25th Amendment at wikipedia.org.
Second, he demonstrates his great grasp of emotionally charged rhetoric when he wrote, "The time has come to invoke the 25th Amendment, install a caretaker government, put the present United States government and corporate media on trial for war crimes, and get some rope until we find some honest people who don't want to swing from lamp posts for lying to the American people."
Yet his statement, especially about the corporate media, sounds eerily like the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century that abolished the idea of a free press owned by private individuals. This sounds like someone who, if ever placed into power, would dissolve the idea of a free press because of his sheer hatred for the corporate media.
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I am sorry, but if I wanted to live in a society where the media was the sole domain of the people, which is just a euphemism for the ruling party, I would move to North Korea or Cuba.
It may be of interest to Fejer that the regimes of Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong felt similar to him on the issue of the media - that the media was the domain of the bourgeoisie and therefore had to be eliminated as a free and individual entity and absorbed into the state itself.
Upon diligent review, Fejer has been measured, weighed and found quite wanting when it comes to being able to offer up rational analysis - his letter is long on rhetoric and emotions, and short on anything resembling substance.
Brandon Curtis
UNM alumnus
