Reply #56: Reagan was certainly a criminal [View All]

[amazona]

There is no doubt that such actions as Iran/Contra and the Boys of Summer were criminal activity under U.S. law. You may say that he was already brain-damaged by the time of becoming the U.S. president -- hence not responsible for his crimes -- and this may (or may not) be true. But there is no denying that the Reagan administration was the biggest theft of public resources since the U.S. Grant administration.

I pity him because he has a terrible disease -- a disease that we would not force a pet cat to suffer through but, even knowing there is no chance of cure or recovery, we torture our relatives by putting them through this. So I do pity him. And I pity his family. And I pity his children who fall asleep every night wondering when this probably genetic disease is going to affect them.

But don't romanticize him. There are many people with Alzheimer's. They do not all get involved with being figureheads for crime. Something made them choose him...and I think it was that he was always a little evil. Selling out your co-workers to Joe McCarthy is not the sign of a decent human being.