A day that lives in infamy

[Monte Davis]

Obviously I need to turn the ironizer up to 11 again (plus more cowbell). I
agree with you.

 

From: Ian Livingston [mailto:igrlivingston at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 1:01 PM
To: Monte Davis
Cc: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: A day that lives in infamy

 

Yep, that's the official line. Some of us think it might have inspired us to
positive action--seeing the Crook in the box--to taking part in a responsive
government. You may thank God for Gerald Ford's having saved us from a
government of the people, by the people and for the people, but I damn him
and all his kind to the eternal hells.

 

 

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

IL> September 8, 1974, which I count as the day the government officially
announced its status as an agency independent of the will of the people, and
the beginning of all that happened after.

 

It was for our own good, Ian.  We stole a continent, we broke from an
empire, we fought a civil war and two world wars, we'd had four presidents
assassinated -- but the spectacle of a former president in the dock,
accountable to the law and to his fellow citizens, would have shattered us
to quivering bits. God bless Gerald Ford for saving us from that horror.

 

 

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