Silence isn’t golden

Sun., July 1, 2012

Re: “Clearly a hate-crime, Shea sounds alarm,” by Shawn Vestal (June 23).

So the message I got from Vestal’s dismissive and ridiculing article was that Rep. Matt Shea just got what he had coming to him by daring to publicly identify himself as supporting Israel, having affirming biblical, Judeo-Christian views or expressing pro-Jewish sentiments.

Thank you, Vestal, you have taught us all a valuable lesson. We can now crawl back into our houses of faith while, of course, turning the other cheek. But what should we do when we run out of cheeks? Well maybe your larger point was if we just keep silent it will all be OK, and all the bad people will just go away.

Just for good measure I will cross my fingers and click my heels.

John Johnson

Colbert

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