RESPONSE TO BOB RIVERA

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Answer to Bob Rivera

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You intimated if we did not like our community, we could leave the country. Wow, what a choice!

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Love it or leave it. This was the CRY of the HAWKS during the 1960’s Vietnam War when many poor young men and women were being uselessly killed while their rich counterparts were in college escaping the draft.

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At that time, many of us proudly protested the war, and I am one of those protesters who were vindicated when the most famous hawk of all Mr. Robert McNamara admitted the war was a HUGE MISTAKE. Is it likely Mr. Rivera that you are making a big mistake by getting rid of the protesters in Century Village?

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Is it imaginable that some day in the future you will have to admit you were wrong? After all if people like me leave and there is no dissent, there will be no democracy because democracy IS dissent. Without dissent there is only dictatorship; one mind, one ideology. Remember, it is you who said this is America; it is still a free country, if we don’t like it, we could leave. So, feel free to leave anytime you wish because people such as me are going to continue contaminating the environment with democratic dissension.

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Oh, and by the way, what makes you think that African Americans and Jews are so inferior they need us to fight for their rights? They are most certainly strong, and smart enough to fight their own battles.

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Post submitted by Olga Wolkenstein

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