Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 05:48:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:

>
> ----- 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

Couldn't agree more. Liddy and Buchanan show that
their allegiance was to the man, not to the country.
That's not the oath you take when you join government
service.
Felt said that there was no other way to protect the
integrity of the FBI, and I believe him; no prosecutor
would have considered taking on the President. He was
a courageous man-- it's Nixon, Liddy, Haldeman, and
the others who betrayed the nation.

Drew

__________________________________________________