Letter to the "Columbus Dispatch"
To the Editor,
I’m always amazed at the amount of time and energy bleeding-heart conservatives like Tom Sowell spend defending the rich and powerful. Now he’s aghast that the common people of England have recently been granted the right to “walk on certain privately owned lands” on certain “large estates.” Horrors!!! Call out the Sheriff of Nottingham!! Next they’ll be poaching his Lordship’s rabbits!!
Sowell’s spiritual ancestors also screamed bloody murder when National Parks were first created in this country. Suddenly, low people could walk on land they had neither inherited nor purchased. Sowell would have complained then as he does today: “getting something for nothing increasingly is what politics is all about.” But does being able to enjoy the natural splendor of your homeland even if you can’t buy it, build a wall around it, and keep everyone else out qualify as getting something for nothing?
Sowell’s suggestion that the Brits’ "mistreatment" of their aristocracy “provides a sneak preview of where our own liberals are headed” is laughable. By the will of evil liberals, he warns, regular folks will “find that their own little gardens can be trampled on by strangers.”
Well, we don’t have to wait until liberals get control of government to experience that brave new world; conservatives have already made sure that government agents can secretly enter our homes and tap our personal computers whenever they want, without anyone’s permission, and without having to tell us about it.
This, of course, is justifiable because – at least in their warped minds - they own us.
Yours - Tom Harker
I’m always amazed at the amount of time and energy bleeding-heart conservatives like Tom Sowell spend defending the rich and powerful. Now he’s aghast that the common people of England have recently been granted the right to “walk on certain privately owned lands” on certain “large estates.” Horrors!!! Call out the Sheriff of Nottingham!! Next they’ll be poaching his Lordship’s rabbits!!
Sowell’s spiritual ancestors also screamed bloody murder when National Parks were first created in this country. Suddenly, low people could walk on land they had neither inherited nor purchased. Sowell would have complained then as he does today: “getting something for nothing increasingly is what politics is all about.” But does being able to enjoy the natural splendor of your homeland even if you can’t buy it, build a wall around it, and keep everyone else out qualify as getting something for nothing?
Sowell’s suggestion that the Brits’ "mistreatment" of their aristocracy “provides a sneak preview of where our own liberals are headed” is laughable. By the will of evil liberals, he warns, regular folks will “find that their own little gardens can be trampled on by strangers.”
Well, we don’t have to wait until liberals get control of government to experience that brave new world; conservatives have already made sure that government agents can secretly enter our homes and tap our personal computers whenever they want, without anyone’s permission, and without having to tell us about it.
This, of course, is justifiable because – at least in their warped minds - they own us.
Yours - Tom Harker
1 Comments:
Tom, this is a great letter about Sowell. He is such a pompous jerk who certainly buys into the rich man's theme. I usually don't read his columns because I get so angry. Keep up the great work. Hope others discover your blog. Sondra
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