No politician should use children as political tool
Mr. Crossley implies, both from the substance and the tone of his response to my letter, that I am a far right partisan hack who should be shunned by society for suggesting that using children in the place of reasoned, logical argumentation is morally indefensible in the least and has an aura of "terrorism" ("It's Bush, not Hoyer, whose S-CHIP position is shameful," letter, Oct. 11).
Yes, Mr. Crossley, I am a bad, bad human being. I am obviously the left hand of Satan sent to destroy those 4 million innocent children without health insurance. Please! You don't even know me!
Apparently, you missed the ultimate point of my letter. Allow me to clear that up for you.
I condemn any politician that uses children and the defenseless as political weapons to score points on the opposition. I condemn Rep. Hoyer's use of Graeme Frost and, yes, Mr. Crossley, I condemn President Bush's use of the "Snowflake Children."
I condemn them because it is despicable to coerce a 12-year-old child who has suffered a traumatic brain injury into speaking for you.
We all want what is best for society, for our country and, ultimately, for the world. These tactics of terror do not further the debate in that regard and they, ultimately, distract from what truly matters: the future of our children and our children's children.
Jason W. Papanikolas
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