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To: Don Hurst who wrote (15113)9/29/2002 4:35:47 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93284
 
What the hell thread do you think you're on?

Reagan was demented well before the start of his second term in office. This ought to be a matter for important and serious discussion. The GHP presented a pasted-up "B"-movie actor and "sold" him to a naive nation. If that isn't a scandal worthy of considering than I don't know what is.

Heston: Since this crack-pot represents the NRA and they are a serious menace to civil society, shouldn't he be fair game when we ask the most serious question about the man today. When is Charleton Heston too demented to be allowed to hold a gun? Clearly, society has a right to protect itself. We wouldn't grant him the right to drive if his faculties were gone. Should we allow a demented man the pleasures of his arsenal? I don't think so. Society has nothing to gain and everything to lose by a permissive attitude about have a man with the intellect of child having his finger on the trigger.

Re: the unfortunate illnesses

Nonsense, fortune has nothing to do with it. They're simply decrepit. That's life. They were war-mongers and deceivers and there's no way either of them have the least bit of respect from me.

PEACE NOW! Ray



To: Don Hurst who wrote (15113)9/29/2002 4:53:47 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 93284
 
I have sympathy for the families and those cursed with the disease. But I don't agree that the disease is off limits in terms of political significance. At least in the case of Reagan. Reagan was a victim of Alzheimer's disease during his Presidency. He was medically incapacitated from serving as President. There was a defacto Coup d'Etat in the United States and we don't know who the President was. That's politically significant.

jttmab



To: Don Hurst who wrote (15113)9/30/2002 1:12:06 AM
From: ManyMoose  Respond to of 93284
 
Well said, but Heston's family won't be in need of sympathy for some time and Reagan did just fine up to the close of his Presidency. Anybody trying to make political mileage out of Alzheimer's had better remember it doesn't discriminate on party lines.