From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:00:03 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:00 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery

> At 12:24 PM 6/1/05 -0400, Ted White wrote:
> >
> >What is fascinating is to hear the statements of Buchanan, Liddy,
Coulson,
> >et al, about what a "traitor" Felt was (to his president!).  To this
day,
> >they do not acknowledge that they and Nixon were the traitors.
>
> There are different levels of loyalty.  Some have loyalty to their family
> or friends as top priority.  Some give that to their boss or government.
> Others to their country, while still others to humanity as a whole.  You
> can easily be a traitor at one level and very loyal at another, at the
same
> time and for the same actions.  Whether someone is or isn't a traitor
> usually depends on what level you view as most important...and which side
> of the question you are on.  The way I see it, you and Liddy are both
> right, even though you seem to disagree vehemently.

And the way I see it, Nixon's side *lost*.  History judges them to be
criminals -- and Liddy (a sociopath who found his calling on talk radio)
served five years of incarceration for it.  He is in no position to call
*anyone* a "traitor."

--Ted White