Letter writer uses smear tactics

Darrel Salisbury
Published: March 9, 2008

It would seem that Robert Molleur’s answer to the problem of illegal aliens is to smear those who disagree with him, as he did in his letter, “Barg should return to writing cookbooks,” March 5, 2008.
He does not say how much it will cost to round up and deport the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens; perhaps he doesn’t know. Does anyone know?

Does he expect them to return by themselves? Would he willingly return to a country from which he was brought as an infant, 20 years ago, and has never seen? Would he, after escaping the poverty of his native land and risking death to establish a life free from want, willingly return to that life of poverty?

What would Mr. Molleur want his government to do if the governments of the countries of the illegal aliens should refuse to allow them to return? That is the sovereign right of those countries.

If liberalism is, in fact, a mental disorder, is it any worse than the opposite disorder of conservatism, that produced the pharoahs, Roman emperors, Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, and Osama bin Laden? Does Mr. Molleur have the courage and integrity to answer the above questions? I would like, liberal that I am, to think that he does. We shall see.

DARREL SALISBURY

Lorton