LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Kremer and history

To the Editor:
    Having reached the age and temperament where, for my peace of mind, I no longer engage liberals in conversation due to the inevitable reflexive avalanche of ignorance and dishonesty, particularly in matters of history — an area of expertise of mine both personally and professionally. I am, however, still able to shake my head in despair over Jerry Kremer’s piece "Don't we have important things to do?" (Aug. 26-Sept. 1).
    To correct in detail Mr. Kremer’s calamitous attempt to describe American Religious history would require a response at least three times the length of the original and more space than the Herald would be willing to provide as well as, frankly, providing more information than the average reader would want.
    As such, to indicate the degree of Mr. Kremer’s incomprehension, one will merely point to the following statement: “The current fixation on anything Muslim is another example of the sick climate in which we are living.” Mr. Kremer attempts to comment on George Washington and John F. Kennedy and yet the past 20 years seem to have zipped by without his noticing anything amiss in the country and the world. Everything from the assassination of Meir Kahane to the attempt to destroy Times Square and from the attack on the USS Cole to the Beltway sniper have apparently been obscured from his eagle eye. Historical footnotes such as the fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan, indeed the entire 9/11 war, are just minor ripples on the placid surface of Mr. Kremer’s mind. As such, he simply cannot understand just why the simple little people with whom he is forced to share the country would have any concern with things Muslim and considers anyone having such thoughts as being “sick.”
    Very well.

    The Democratic Party is about to be crushed this fall, and they are already attempting to write the history of this defeat. It will not be their policies, their obsessions with building mosques, gay marriage and giving illegal immigrants carte blanche. It will not be their laughable foreign policy and disastrous economy.
    No. It will be none of that. It will be the fault of the American people that they loathe so much. The American people who, according to Kremer and so many like him, are intolerant, stupid and “sick.”
    Oh. I cannot resist. Mr. Kremer? John Adams was not an atheist. He was a Unitarian who wrote late in life, “My Adoration of the Author of the Universe is too profound and too sincere. The Love of God and his Creation; delight, Joy, Triumph."

James Janis
Malverne