I was watching a documentary called “The Most Dangerous Man in America.” The most dangerous man in America, according to Nixon, was Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers.
The Papers indicated, among other things, that every President from Kennedy to Nixon had lied about the war in Vietnam. Ellsberg, an ex-Marine, at 28, was a Rand employee and advisor to the Nixon administration and had direct communication with Henry Kissinger.
Then I watched a documentary about Martin Luther King. The FBI called him “The most dangerous negro in America,” after he came out in opposition to the war in Vietnam. Dr. King made the connection between war abroad and human rights at home in his famous Riverside Church Speech; the one that is never shown by the mainstream media.
Epiphany: being against war makes you the most dangerous man in America, or in your group, in America. And, my group is old.
So, I was thinking how cool it would be if I came out publicly against these current wars. I, Nelson Strasser, could be “the most dangerous old man in America.” Here it is: I condemn the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and I condemn Bush for starting the wars and I condemn Obama for continuing them.
I was hoping someone else would condemn Obama, and some do, but not because he is a warmonger, but for some bizarre reasons: 18 percent of the citizenry think he”s Moslem, as if that is a reason to condemn him, even if it were true and another bunch think he was born in another country, which of course is true; he was born in Hawaii. That is like attacking a serial killer because he has bad table manners. So, it got left to me.
Nelson Strasser
Kelseyville
