OPINION:
History tells humanity a remarkable tale, but it only does us any good if we’re able to remember it (“How Ronald Reagan handled campus protests,” web, April 29).
War and peace are cycles amidst the various ripples of creation. Both stages embody societal signs. For the Romans and the Americans, inflation, the erosion of the middle class and the decadence and depravity of the ruling class all seem to define a decline in salubrious existence.
However, an evil sign in both civilizations is the menace of antisemitism. Across time and space, this pseudo-intellectual scourge represents the ultimate form of terminal illness for a freely functional civil society. Political polarization left to fester for decades has morphed into unadulterated hatred. Antisemitism is the one prejudice that has the power to precipitate the collapse of democracy and totally transform it into totalitarian tyranny.
Unlike ancient Rome, the U.S. possesses checks and balances that serve as our ultimate savior. Our democratic republic will endure once we garner the intestinal fortitude to protect legitimate freedom of speech against sympathy for terrorists. To avert catastrophe against American Jews and all believers in God, family and country, I call for immediate disassembly of all pro-Hamas tent cities. I condemn all those who stand upon the side of a terrorist organization bent upon my destruction and the destruction of my people and call for the immediate deportation of all illegal immigrants who picket on behalf of terrorists or adversarial regimes.
Furthermore, it is long past time for the Internal Revenue Service to remove the tax-exempt status of foundations, funds and universities that funnel money to pro-Hamas and other pro-Palestinian causes. And I fully endorse the revocation of student visas and the mandatory expulsion of all demonstrators who shout slogans in support of genocide of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
The federalist system can make sure this wave of history is not a fatal tsunami once we restore law and order to an ailing America.
HENRY WILSON
Washington
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