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| Current executive actions are having major impacts on the educational communities, impacting schools, colleges and universities. This is of direct concern for me and my family. My father and one daughter graduated from Columbia. My other daughter graduated from Harvard. My son and I graduated from MIT and my wife went to law school at Yale. In addition, I taught pre-college education for 46 years.
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| The following brief letter to the editor was submitted first to The New York Times (2/11/25), then to the Hartford Courant (2/24/25) and to the New Britain Herald (3/11/25). It was printed in the New Britain Herald, but it was trimmed to a 250-word limit. Here is the full letter for those who wish to read it.
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| Government has again reached a stressed point. The Constitution is designed to serve the goals of the people while protecting the needs of all groups. It seeks a balance of the three branches - the executive, the legislative and the judicial - but the political parties are a problem.
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| As George Washington said on September 17, 1796, at his Farewell Address: "[Political parties] are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
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| Lawrence Watt-Evans and Carl Parlagreco noted in 2005 in "The Spartacus File" that "to attract attention, you needed to be in the main media. That was how the whole system had gone bad in the first place-only millionaires could afford to run for office, and millionaires were going to screw around with the corporate structures that had made them rich, other than to make themselves even richer."
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| As Martin Niemoller stated in 1946, "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one to speak for me." It is critically important that the citizens are actively involved. We need to avoid Nixon's "silent majority".
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