LETTER: OUTRAGEOUS REMARKS WILL DO IN GINGRICH

To the editor

I am outraged at the killing of the northern Illinois woman and two of her three already-born children, supposedly by a trio bent on "harvesting" her not-yet-born child. My mind cannot conceive a cruel enough punishment to do justice for this crime.

I should also be outraged at a statement on this event which was made by our logorrheic, judgmental doofus of a U.S. House speaker. He said, "It happened in America because for two generations we haven't had the guts to talk about right and wrong. ... We end up with the final culmination of a drug-addicted underclass with no sense of humanity, no sense of civilization and no sense of the rules of life in which human beings respect each other." Has this man's capacity for smugness, opportunism and impropriety not yet been reached? Recall that he made much the same sort of speech on the occasion of the truth coming to light in the Susan Smith double filicide about a year ago.

I said that I should be outraged at Gingrich's statement, but instead I rejoice at it. Every time these unbalanced conservative yahoos deliver themselves of such sentiments, they reveal their stunted souls in their full glory and, in doing so, make it all the more unlikely that they will ever hold power in this country except sporadically and seldom.

Gingrich can easily say that this, that and the other occurred while the liberals held political power in this country, because conservatives only attain power when voters seek a bit of novelty. Once the workers have had a taste of what right-wing policies actually mean for them, they drop them like a bad habit.

I would not like this latter-day Torquemada/Cotton Mather/Judge Roy Bean as president of our country, and I am glad that he withdrew.

DONN S. MILLER

Tamms, Ill.