Posted on 06/01/2005 9:30:31 AM PDT by Impeach98
ABC News Poll: Was Mark Felt a Hero for What He did?
How's that? How did that work out for the Cambodians?
If anyone has any doubt of the damage Felt enable, needs to read Ben Stein's article below:
Deep Throat and Genocide
The American Spectator ^ | 6-1-05 | Ben Stein
Posted on 06/01/2005 5:55:15 AM PDT by veronica
Re: The "news" that former FBI agent Mark Felt broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's articles that helped depose Richard Nixon, a few thoughts.
Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW's, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?
Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded.
That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's kharma.
When his enemies brought him down, and they had been laying for him since he proved that Alger Hiss was a traitor, since Alger Hiss was their fair-haired boy, this is what they bought for themselves in the Kharma Supermarket that is life:
1.) The defeat of the South Vietnamese government with decades of death and hardship for the people of Vietnam.
2.) The assumption of power in Cambodia by the bloodiest government of all time, the Khmer Rouge, who killed a third of their own people, often by making children beat their own parents to death. No one doubts RN would never have let this happen.
So, this is the great boast of the enemies of Richard Nixon, including Mark Felt: they made the conditions necessary for the Cambodian genocide. If there is such a thing as kharma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life of the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide. I hope they are happy now -- because their future looks pretty bleak to me.
Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer in Beverly Hills and Malibu, and author of "Ben Stein's Diary" each month in The American Spectator.
Voted no. I'm a Pres. Nixon fan. Have a pic of him hanging in my office. Comparing Pres. Nixon with Bubba Clintoon and Pres. Nixon is many heads above Bubba in ethics, morality and patriotism. Bubba should be hung up by his fingers for starters for what he did to this country.
Great article - I like Ben Stein's writings.
Freeped and bumped! :)
This is not a scientific survey.
Good morning and thanks my friend.
Sorry but our porn blocking software doesn't allow us to go to abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, the nytimes, boston globe or any other porno site.
And with good timing - I see you posted the image for the results and the YES number is now below 66% and continuing to drop. If nothing else I would like to see this dip into the 50-percentile range (even 59.99%) just so the gang at ABC News can be disgusted at the fact that over 40.0% of the people who voted in their poll don't share their hero worship for a man who brought down a Repub. president. That would be satisfaction enough (not to mention the fact that I really don't think Felt was an admirable character).
Hey it's cool - I just feel bad I posted the image of the ABC logo... hopefully none of your colleagues will see such an "obscene" and pornographic image on your computer :) Just be glad I didn't post the NPR logo... that surely violates community standards for obscene and indecent material!!!
I don't know how I feel about Felts. He probably did it for selfish/career reasons.
On the other hand, as #2 in the FBI, there was no higher law enforcement official for him to go to. Patrick Gray, who was head of the FBI, was a Nixon crony with no law enforcement experience who was handing FBI files over to John Dean in the White House and subverting the investigation. If Felts wanted the truth to come out, he certainly couldn't go to Gray. I don't know who else he could have gone to -- Judge Sirica, perhaps?
Frankly, to me it seems that his money-hungry family is taking advantage of a old senile guy who doesn't even know what's going on any more. Pretty pitiful, like the rest of this sorry saga.
"The resignation of Nixon was a horribly traumatic event for our country. It allowed the likes of Jimmy Carter to gain the presidency."
No kidding. (shudder!!!)
On the other hand, if we had not experienced the trauma of Carter's four long years, Ronald Reagan might not have been elected. Maybe things turned out OK in the end.
Lapsus lingua, a slip of the tongue? It really scares me how the 'Rats with their special ops wing -- the press-- can range at will and destroy anyone's good name to further their own ends. And no one can stop them because whether its their right to make up 'the news' or their right to obstruct the senate their evil deeds are always protected by the constitution. Isn't that convenient?
Nixon had to cover up because his band of thugs were being paid out of his campaign money and a stash of cash kept in the White House, later money-laundered through a Mexico City bank.
If you've read Nixon's tape transcripts, you'll know that even Nixon himself thought Liddy was crazy.
Watergate wasn't just about that break-in. It was sooo much more. Did you hear Liddy talking last night about Colson's plan to break-in (actually fire bomb) the Brookings Institution? He said the reason they didn't do it was because it was going to cost too much to get a fire engine.
And John Dean, whose operation it was, is a liberal hero, just like the Klintoons who illegally obtained almost 1,000 FBI files. Yet Chuck Colson looked at ONE and he had to be put in jail.
Liberal consistency!
I wonder what MD4Bush would think of this, being a liberal who entrapped a conservative.
It is hard to think of a stool pigeon as a hero. ...more like a disgruntled employee who went "postal' in his own way.
I vote whore.
Oh sorry, wrong Deep Throat.
O.K. media whore.
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