From the Desk of Terry Lynch

DATE:  Aug. 26, 1998 

FROM: Terry Lynch
            POB 241035
            Montgomery, AL 36124-1035

E-mail: TerryLynch@aol.com

Internet site: The Pyrotechnic Pen

Additional Information: Lynch Links


Letter to the Editor - For Immediate Release
 

SUBJECT:  Wallace Can Walk Again

Ref. "Wallace Votes for Clinton Resignation" Montgomery 
Advertiser p. 1A Aug. 26, 1998

It may require a miracle but former Gov. George C. Wallace
can walk again.  However, he must first come to understand the 
true meaning of the word "horrible" in its various connotations.

"Horrible," meaning extremely unpleasant, may properly describe 
the assassination attempt upon Wallace, his suffering and how he 
feels.  But "horrible" is an inappropriate adjective for Wallace 
to use with respect to President Clinton and the White House sex 
scandal.  It is also inappropriate for the Advertiser to use the former
Governor's birthday celebration for political purposes by prompting 
Wallace, who has been through a "horrible", meaning shockingly 
dreadful experience, to associate his feelings with the White 
House sex scandal.

The former Gov. Wallace seems to have been led to transpose his 
own suffering and feelings to his perception of President Clinton and 
the White House scandal.  Perhaps this was done for the political
benefit such reporting by his former press secretary, could have for
Wallace's son.  If that is the case it represents a "horrible," meaning 
abominable, way to use and manipulate the power of the press.

How a suffering Wallace feels about President Clinton's 
predicament is not headline news.  What would be headline 
news is if the former Gov. Wallace would sign a proclamation 
declaring that he recants his "segregation forever" philosophy 
with respect to all social segregation of church and state 
institutions.

It would be "horrible," meaning deplorable, if Wallace dies 
without recanting by written proclamation his "segregation 
forever" belief.  If Wallace has enough presence of mind to ask 
for a Bible he should reconsider the teachings of Jesus Christ 
with respect to children, love and self sacrifice.  No man who 
understands the Sermon on the Mount, the crucifixion of Christ 
and the persecution of Christians by Romans can justify social 
segregation, because it is a "horrible," meaning disgusting, way 
for people to treat their fellow man.

I would like to urge the former Gov. Wallace to consider how he 
feels and transpose those horrid feelings to how social 
segregation makes people feel who are segregated.  Then consider 
recanting segregation forever as a "horrible" social institution!

Gov. Wallace may wish he was never shot and that he could walk 
again.  I suggest that it would be a similar miracle if he would 
issue a proclamation to end social segregation of church and 
state forever.  Yet that is one miracle Wallace has the power to 
make happen.  If he does, he will walk again beside the great men 
of history!

Sincerely, Terry Lynch 
Montgomery, AL 
  

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