Michael Rectenwald responds to responds to a Retired Army Master Sergeant who says, regarding our site, "Disgraceful is a word too kind"...and that we will "burn in hell"

Lori Price's add-on --March 25, 2003:

...Speaking of the "the government t*t":

Cheney is still paid by Pentagon contractor Bush deputy gets $1m from firm with Iraq oil deal --Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-pResident, Dick Cheney.

Cheney is someone who really knows how to milk it.

Iraq rebuilding contracts awarded The first contracts for rebuilding post-war Iraq have been awarded, and Vice pResident Dick Cheney's old employer [and current paymaster], Halliburton Co., is one of the early winners. [Yeah, *real* early! Halliburton won the contract when the W-ar in Iraq was just a twinkle in Richard Perle's eye! --Lori Price]

Master Sergeant's reply --March 25, 2003:

Subject: Re: "Disgraceful" is a word too kind

Why don't you get a life, a*shole, and get off the government t*t which I'm sure you're on at the same time you protest this country so vigorously.

The Master Sergeant

Michael Rectenwald's reply --March 25, 2003:

Dear Retired Sergeant Major,

Veiled threats against our rights are anti-American. We will not be intimidated. Nor will we burn in your fictitious hell.

But thousands will burn in the real hell created by the likes of you and yours. Brainwashed by jingoistic ideology, you and yours subject innocents to an illegal, immoral, and invasive, 'pre-emptive' W-ar, the real motives of which--geopolitical control and neo-colonialism and W-ar as entertainment/diversion--are kept ever beneath the surface of consciousness. (Oops, I used the word "consciousness." I guess you'll call me a "hippie" now. Or, as that other aging hippy once sang, "The sun's not yellow, it's chicken!").

We will not be deterred by the likes of you and your fascist friends who have hijacked this nation, making it resemble Nazi Germany far more than the ideals represented by the founders of this nation, the ideals of the Enlightenment, and not some fanatical religiousness mixed with nationalistic W-ar mongering, imperialistic greed, and the repression of dissent.

Cheers,

Michael Rectenwald
Founder and Chair
Citizens for Legitimate Government

P.S. The "financial backers" of legitgov.org are thousands of American citizens who contribute what they can and buy our t-shirts. They are not, as you seem to imply, part of some nefarious political conspiracy of the left (like "communism") or any political party at all. Ordinary citizens, seeing our nation destroyed by fascists, support our work. Thank god for rational, enlightened and self-determined people, who resist the daily barrage of propaganda and think for themselves.

Letter CLG received --March 24, 2003:

Subject: "Disgraceful" is a word too kind

To Whom It May Concern:

Your web site is absolutely the most despicable collection of rubbish ever to appear before my eyes, and in my 67 years, 21 of which were as a newspaper editor and publisher ..... I've been witness to some of the foulest and most profane.

You're a disgrace to this country, but even more than that .... you disgrace our men and women in the military, both past and present. These were, and ARE, some of America's finest who have had the courage to step forward, putting their lives on the line for their country -- something I'm quite sure no one in your organization has ever had the testicles to do.

You are a bunch of gutless cowards, no TRAITORS, who should be run out of the country. I don't know who the major financial backers of your shameful "legitgov.org" may be but I could come pretty close with a couple of guesses. I pray that you are being investigated as I write.

The one single pleasurable image I get when I think of you and those like you ..... is that one day you'll burn in hell. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned.

YOU ARE A DISGRACE!

Army Master Sergeant Retired
March 24, 2003

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