LETTERS
Dr. Mike Fixes The Constitution
Let’s make some legal sausage. Let’s rewrite the U.S. Constitution for the times.
This document is created equally. It is sure to make everybody equally unhappy.
The Legislative branch shall be composed of three Houses: Media, Special Interests and Consumers. No lawyer may be seated in any House except upon formal and permanent renunciation of his or her profession.
The Judicial Branch shall consist of a Supreme Court and such inferior courts as may be necessary to keep the Supreme Court busy regulating every aspect of our lives.
The Supreme Court shall consist of nine justices, three straight, three gay and three transgender. No lawyer may serve, save upon formal and permanent renunciation of his or her profession.
Executive power shall be vested in a president and vice president, to be elected from one of the four following political factions: Over the Top, Around the Bend, Off the Wall and Out to Lunch.
Whenever the president is of the male persuasion, the vice president shall be of the female, and vice versa. Transsexuals will be classified according to their latest preference.
The Department of Defense shall be redesignated the Department of Do as We Say.
The Department of State shall be redesignated the Department of Do as They Say.
The Department of Education shall be redesignated the Department of Political Correctness.
The Department of Justice shall be temporarily abolished until we figure out what justice is and what “is” is.
The Department of Homeland Security shall be known as the Department of Domestic Inconveniences.
All other departments shall be merged into one Department of Entitlements.
No lawyers need apply to any department.
Finally, the Preamble shall read:
“We the People of the United States, confident that our civilization requires neither civic virtue nor patriotism nor effort nor sacrifice on anybody’s part; smug in the belief that we can run deficits, export jobs and trash our environment indefinitely; and certain that there’s a government fix for everything; do hereby declare the United States of America eternal.
“Henceforth, and in conclusion, there will be a single income tax with a single flat rate of 90% to support a single-payer medical system so everyone, legal or not, will receive ‘free’ medical care.”
Michael Arnold Glueck
M.D. and Federalist
Newport Beach
Iraq
For many weeks I have observed a rise in the level of media criticism of how we as a country are handling the nation building of Iraq.
Most of the pontificators are not experts on the Middle East, although, if I had my way, they would all get a month-long sabbatical somewhere in Yemen or Kashmir to learn the basics.
They banter about terrible events, how many lives have been lost in recent terrorist bombings and the misjudgments by our administration in the peacekeeping process. They seem gleeful to point out any tiny imperfection that CNN and Al Jazeera can place in front of their biased cameras.
Not one of these bastions of information has ever mentioned that more people were murdered in Los Angeles County since the beginning of the war than have been killed in combat in Iraq.
It is as if everyone has forgotten what happened to this country two years ago.
I have talked with people who do not believe we should spend taxpayer money on rebuilding Iraq. I wonder if most understand what the cost of losing two buildings in New York really was, the total damage to the economy and the almost complete collapse of everything from the airline industry to hotels, amusement parks and any businesses that support their needs, which has led to the loss of millions of jobs.
We are complaining about stabilizing a country of 27 million people in the middle of hell. It will not be easy. It took years for us to rebuild Germany and Japan even though we went in as conquerors, not liberators. We stayed strong while German snipers were killing our soldiers and the Russians were building their iron curtain.
Maybe it would be wise to learn the resilience of our forefathers who believed in this country and understood freedom is never free.
Barbara Hiller Johnson
Cowan Heights
Leaders of countries around the world, including Arab states, claim they believe Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and that the Iraqi people are better without him and his sons in power.
If so, why aren’t they speaking out against Arab media sources who, through video and audio tapes, provide the dictator an ability to rally and instruct his loyalists, urging them to murder American soldiers who are trying to restore order and a quality of life for the Iraqi people?
Bonnie O’Neil
Newport Beach
Solve two problems:
Bring the troops home!
Send Bush to Iraq!
Leo Quirk
Dana Point
El Toro, Cont’d
The El Toro Reuse Planning Authority has opposed reopening the commissary at the former Marine base. Now, isn’t their mission to prevent “aviation” reuse? I fail to see how a commissary poses a threat.
It appears that ETRPA simply wants to reap the most amount of profit possible for the developers. Plus, it comes off like an elitist attitude by “masterplanned” Irvine to exclude military personnel.
Fine then. I have a solution in my own backyard: the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station. It has plenty of acreage and, being very close to the L.A.-OC border, serves a very large demographic.
Military personnel may not be supported by ETRPA, but these brave men and women are welcome in my community anytime.
Rex Ricks
Huntington Beach
