Bill Bennett’s Malicious Drivel

William John
(Bill) Bennett

What a person believes is his or her business; subjecting others to it can be detrimental. To speak one's views is a right guaranteed not just to one person but to all people, at least in the United States, under the Constitution of the United States. But to use positions of influence to spread false information and ignorance, to harm and disparage, to cause harm to be brought against others is criminally immoral. And it should stop.

Commentary by Carolyn Bennett 

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UNIVERSAL
Declaration of Human Rights
1948 - 

 Brooklyn, New York-native and graduate of a Jesuit high school for boys, Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., and Williams College, a rural, originally all-male (until 1970) private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts; PhD (political philosophy) and JD degrees from University of Texas (Austin) and Harvard Law School -- William John (Bill) Bennett was U.S. Secretary of Education (1985–1988) during the Ronald Reagan presidency, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the George H. W. Bush presidency, and (in 2000) co founder of “K12, a publicly-traded online education company.” 

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othing in his background qualified him to hold key positions in the U.S. government. 

Nothing in his training or education, character or contributions qualifies him to put forth credible opinions on U.S. foreign policy and practice or on any foreign country or any nationality of people or religious or ethnic group; or on American (U.S.) or any other country’s education or educational system.  

And yet William John (Bill) Bennett was allowed to hold critical positions in government and now holds forth on radio spouting nonsense, rabid ideology, about bombing other countries and people.

Wikipedia notes that ‘Bill Bennett’s Morning in America’ is the name of prominent conservative and Reagan cabinet member William Bennett’s radio talk show, a direct reference to the advertisement of the same name.

‘Morning in America’ was the common name of a political campaign television commercial formally titled ‘Prouder, Stronger, Better’ and featuring the opening line, ‘It’s morning again in America.’ The advert was part of the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign of Republican Party candidate Ronald Reagan. It featured a montage of images of Americans going to work and a calm, optimistic narration suggesting that improvements to the U.S. economy since Reagan's 1980 election were due to his and not others' policies.

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ennett’s ascendancy reflects the height of irresponsibility all round – irresponsibility on the part of those who hire this man and irresponsibility on his part because, surely, they must know, as he must know, that he is unfit and unqualified. The man displays a deliberate ignorance, which he spreads – criminally so – among the populace, thus doing grave disservice not only to Americans but also causing deliberate harm (particularly in his disparaging and his cavalier calls for violent aggression) to varieties of people who are in no way a threat either to the United States or to its people but who happen to be, in one way or another, different from William John (Bill) Bennett. 

In my opinion, this is deliberate, unconscionable cruelty. And it should stop. 

Source Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_in_america

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bennett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzaga_College_High_School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_College

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Bennett's books are available in New York State independent bookstores: Lift Bridge Bookshop: www.liftbridgebooks.com [Brockport, NY]; Sundance Books: http://www.sundancebooks.com/main.html [Geneseo, NY]; Mood Makers Books: www.moodmakersbooks.com [City of Rochester, NY]; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center: www.enlightenthedog.org/ [Buffalo, NY]; Burlingham Books – ‘Your Local Chapter’: http://burlinghambooks.com/ [Perry, NY 14530]; The Bookworm: http://www.eabookworm.com/ [East Aurora, NY] • See also: World Pulse: Global Issues through the eyes of Women: http://www.worldpulse.com/ http://www.worldpulse.com/pulsewire http://www.facebook.com/#!/bennetts2ndstudy

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