Subject: Lock-Up Old Folks+95 Yr-Old Vet's View
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:01:51 -0500
From: COL M. Courtland Clayton, PE
To: Undisclosed recipients: ;
Courtesy of Rita Remley
> *Subject: **LET'S LOCK UP THE OLD FOLKS*
>
> *Now here's a plan that makes sense...............can't wait 'till I
> get old!
>
> Let's put the seniors in jail, and the criminals in a nursing home.
> This way the seniors would have access to showers, hobbies, and walks,
> they'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical
> treatment, wheel chairs etc. and they'd receive money instead of
> paying it out.
> They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped
> instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
> Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed
> and returned to them.
> A guard would check on them every 20 minutes, and bring their meals &
> snacks
> to their cell. They would have family visits in a suite built for that
> purpose.
> They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counseling,
> pool, and education, simple clothing, shoes, slippers, P.J.'s and
> legal aid would be free, on request.
> Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with
> gardens.
> Each senior could have a P.C., T.V., Radio, and daily phone calls.
> There would be a board of directors, to hear complaints, and the
> guards would have a code
> of conduct, that would be strictly adhered to.
> The "criminals" would get cold food, be left all alone, and unsupervised.
> Lights off at 8 pm, and showers once a week.
> Live in a tiny room, and pay $5000.00 per month and have no hope of
> ever getting out.
> Justice for all.*
Courtesy of Rae Fisher
> *Subject: ** One 95 year old vet's view of the situation today*
> WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out !
>
> /This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in
> Hawaii//for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic
> organizations and causes all over the country. A humble man without a
> political bone in his body, he has never spoken out before about a
> government official, until now. He dictated this letter to a friend,
> signed it and mailed it to the president./
>
> Dear President Obama,
>
> My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this
> year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age
> because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.
>
> I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during
> and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in
> a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me
> to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.
>
> One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my
> mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.
>
> So here goes.
>
> I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I
> do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.
>
> I can't figure out what country you are the president of.
> You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable
> lies like:
> " We're no longer a Christian nation"
> " America is arrogant" - (Your wife even
> announced to the world, "America is mean-
> Spirited." Please tell her to try preaching
> that nonsense to 23 generations of our
> war dead buried all over the globe who
> died for no other reason than to free a
> whole lot of strangers from tyranny and
> hopelessness.)
>
>
> I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America,
> nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the
> obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or
> gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.
>
> After 9/11 you said, "America hasn't lived up to her ideals."
>
> Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that
> 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the
> British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another
> man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn't
> mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of
> fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real
> strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand
> for freedom.
>
> I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than
> discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people
> understood when they helped to get you elected.
>
> Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.
>
> Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do
> what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on
> Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize,
> and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat
> their people like slaves.
>
> And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to
> jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his
> fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us
> to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black
> college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight? You
> don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want
> us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.
>
> One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never
> had to defend your country with your life, but you're the
> Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened
> field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission,
> give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get
> out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political
> strategy you're thinking of.
>
> You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest
> challenge ever presented to any president.
> You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our
> bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart
> and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.
> And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in
> this final battle...
>
> Sincerely,
> Harold B. Estes
>
>
> Snopes confirms as
> true:*http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/haroldestes.asp*<
>
> _When a 95 year old hero of the "the Greatest Generation" stands up
> and speaks out like this, I think we owe it to him to send his words
> to as many Americans as we can.
>
>
> _Please pass it on.
>
>
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