Edward Tincani – 4/2/09

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Values disgraced and trampled on; Edward Tincani; Beaver County Times; April 2, 2009.

Previous letters from Mr. Tincani were entitled “Nation pays price for Bush’s big ego,” “Trade agreements are too one-sided,” “Limbaugh should stop blowing smoke,” “Medical research needs boundaries,” and “Will we really see justice for all?” Mr. Tincani has been a busy guy; this is his fifth letter in five weeks. I wonder if Mr. Tincani knows the Times has (or at least had) a 12 letters per year limit.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“We are failing to hold accountable (except for one, Madoff) those responsible for the collapse of our economy and the licensing of our medical research people to continue with Dr. Mengele’s research using live humans to accomplish their goals.

“By these actions or lack of, we are professing to the world that our nation no longer believes in justice for all and no longer leads the world in good moral values.

“These two of our most treasured convictions, which helped form the foundation of our nation and establish it as the greatest nation on earth, are being disgraced and trampled on not by a foreign power but by our own elected leaders — our president and members of our Congress.

“No matter what one’s race, color, national origin, religion or preferred form of government is, injustice is injustice and immorality is immorality.”

[RWC] This is another letter with the same theme as “Medical research needs boundaries.” The only reason I mention it is because of a local lefty’s knee-jerk reaction. Ignoring Mr. Tincani’s leftist body of work (except for embryonic stem cell research), Rich Laughlin (aka “Lock”) made the following comment on the Times website: “I wonder if Tincani is concerned at all about our immoral use of torture under Bush and the national black eye we took because of it. For some reason many people with strongly conservative outlooks have greater compassion for microscopic specks of sub-life than they do for walking, talking human beings.” In the mind of folks like “Lock,” if you take one position usually taken by conservatives, you’re “strongly conservative” even if everything other position you take is leftist.