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Published Thursday, 10-Jun-2004 in issue 859

“He was more Hitler than hero, and certainly not a champion of the average American.”

Dear Editor:

Ronald Reagan – the great communicator?!

Bullpucky!

He couldn’t event utter the word AIDS.

He created the largest divide between the “haves” and the “have nots” in this country. He also put California’s incompetents on the streets, where many and their successors remain today, by closing the states’ mental health facilities.

He created the largest deficit in U.S. history with his military budget and flawed “Star Wars” strategic defense initiative which cost the taxpayers billions of dollars and never got off the ground.

He was more Hitler than hero, and certainly not a champion of the average American.

Too bad Reagan didn’t maintain his mental faculties so he could experience and realize what a screw-up his vice president would be as president and Bush’s son after him, how AIDS now ravages the entire planet, and how a left-leaning liberal with a libido for fat chicks balanced their 12-year, right-wing budget and brought some semblance of peace and normalcy to America in eight short years in office.

Lee A. Schoenbart

“[H]ateful 16 year-old shill Tyler Chase Harper and his publicity-hungry father (with any tax-exempt organizations they represent) should be civilly sued for millions …”

Dear Editor:

The San Diego LGBT Center Board of Directors’ ill-concieved decision to turn-the-other-cheek to hate-mongers who planed and succeeded in abusing First Amendment Freedoms of Speech and of (or from) Religion to promote homophobic religious harassment and its predictable outcome of violence against GLBT and Questioning high schoolers IS WRONG!

Instead, hateful 16 year-old shill Tyler Chase Harper and his publicity-hungry father (with any tax-exempt organizations they represent) should be civilly sued for millions, with liens placed on their properties to dissuade such hate crimes as his wearing a homophobic violence-promoting T Shirt in response to GLSEN’s Day of Silence in Poway.

Such techniques worked for Orange County Gay activism in the past, even threatening the tax-exemptions enjoyed by “religious” hate-monger Lew Sheldon in over thirty years ago. The best way to stop such hate-mongers is to legally target each attacker and their organizational tax exemptions.

Jay Murley

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