A few questions for our very own ‘He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’

What is the point of having a free press when the mainstream media refuses to ask our leaders in Washington the most important questions?
“Mr. President, we cannot stay on top of recovering from all of these natural disasters throughout the world, why then start a man-made disaster like your fake ‘war’ in Iran?”
Mr. President, why does the U.S. and the U.N. continue to have their goofy and pointless inspections of Iran’s nuclear program when Russia and Pakistan (both Iran allies) could just give Iran nuclear weapons? What could stop this from happening? Russia could give Iran 500 nuclear “war” heads and still have 5,000 left. Explain, Mr. President.”

“Mr. President, if a leader in the Mideast said the U.S. was an ‘imminent threat’ and started killing Americans, you would feel justified in executing such a leader, but then you feel no one had the right to execute you even though you are murdering thousands of Iranians in the ‘war’ you started. Please explain your logic, Mr. President”

“Mr. President, you will be golfing after murdering thousands in a fake ‘war’ you started, and John Bolton will go to prison for mishandling classified information. Mr. President, this is nonsense. Please explain.”
Frank Erickson
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(Editor’s note: I would add that when Trump responds with his standard, “You’re a terrible reporter,” I want to hear just one mainstream media person say, “And you’re a terrible president/person!” Or a swift kick in the nuts will do. Pulitzer material either way!)

Seinfeld is not funny

Jerry Seinfeld, star of the long running sitcom, the “Show About Nothing,” will appear at the DECC in Duluth on August 7.
Seinfeld, in fact, is also well-known for his numerous unapologetic anti-Palestine comments, equating Palestinians to the KKK and claiming that “Palestine doesn’t exist.” In doing so he promotes the false claim that any criticism of the state of Israel is tantamount to antisemitism.
If indeed Palestine does not exist, Palestinians can continue to be killed in Gaza and the occupied West Bank with impunity, which is exactly what is happening on a daily basis, courtesy of U.S. money and U.S. weapons.
Systematic mass murder, Jerry, is no laughing matter, not now just as it was not so in Germany in the World War Two era.
There is a word for this kind of killing. It’s called genocide. It does not matter if the current perpetrators were once victims themselves.
The world does not need more rationalizing for the use of violence in the promotion of power. The current US-Israel war on Iran is yet another marriage made in Hell.
We should boycott Seinfeld at the DECC just as we should boycott the state of Israel. Giving credence to the use of violence in the service of state power is not “nothing.”
Robert Kosuth
Duluth, Minnesota

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