Vivian E. Jackson – 1/4/07

This page was last updated on January 4, 2007.

Sounds familiar; Vivian E. Jackson; Beaver County Times; January 4, 2007.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“The Times reported on Sunday the execution of Saddam Hussein. The article then expanded to other famous executions.

“I hope that the politicians and whomever else puts their two bits in concerning the plight of America has paid attention and read the article to the end.

“The last execution listed was of Nicolae Ceausescu. It stated under his rule of the Romanian Communist Party, the government accumulated a large amount of foreign debt. He then ordered the export of so much of the country’s agricultural and industrial production that Romania went from a state of relative economic well-being to near starvation.”

[RWC] “Romania went from a state of relative economic well-being?” Relative to which countries? Communists ran Romania beginning immediately after World War II. No communist country has ever been in “a state of relative economic well-being.”

At least a portion of the previous paragraph looks like it was lifted from Encyclopedia Britannica.

If Ms. Jackson had kept reading the Encyclopedia Britannica, she would have read Ceausescu was hanged as the result of charges of mass murder, not screwing up the Romanian economy.

“Yoo-hoo, does that sound familiar?”

[RWC] Is Ms. Jackson seriously comparing the U.S. with the former communist Romania? What are the similarities?

What is it with folks like Ms. Jackson? Regardless of party affiliation, there’s no way you can compare any U.S. leaders with people like Ceausescu, Hitler, Mao, Stalin, et cetera.