Far Out Eric Attacks Again

Eric “Soros” Winslow has reached a new level of verbal depravity in Friday’s  Amador People’s Daily aka the Ledger Dispatch in his letter to the editor entitled “Boitano’s High Flyers”. Apparently, he thinks that out doing the National Enquirer will give the Ledger a competitive edge in our unfolding newspaper war. Little of what Winslow wrote discusses the issues; it is primarily character assassination based solely on Winslow’s imagination and distorted perceptions. While I could easily pick his letter apart word by word, including his frequent caustic and dishonest word choice, I am not verbose or pedantic like he is, and will therefore concentrate on a few points.

Winslow describes a campaign flyer with a photo of our sheriff and district attorney as containing “two…good-looking Caucasian gentleman.”  If I wrote about attractive Michelle Bachman vs. homely Janet Napolitano, I would be accused of sexism - and rightly so, since I would be viewing women as commodities and not people. You discuss a person’s ideas and track record, not their appearance. Look at all the flack Donald Trump got for calling Carly Fiorina unattractive. But it’s OK for double standard Winslow to talk that way. He further illustrates this in his statement “…those who the incumbent apparently considers subordinate to him, particularly women.” Aside from being an absolutely fanciful accusation on Winslow’s part, it further shows his belief in the far left notion that sexism is discrimination only against women.  There is a vast men’s movement literature, almost entirely from liberal and left wing sources, about discrimination against men.  I believe that we are all equal in God’s eyes, and that the simplest and most effective way to reflect that in human society is for us to speak and act that way.

He continues his ideological tack by calling a Boitano campaign flyer “…an example of how some of the great white fathers in our county’s leadership lord it over those whom they take to be their inferiors…” He believes in the discriminatory notion that all white people must be the same. There is apparently no difference between slave owners, those who committed genocide against Native Americans and poor immigrants. Prejudice against Catholics has been a tragic part of American history from Colonial times until the Kennedy presidency. Italian immigrants dug the cut and cover New York subways for the white, Protestant upper class. Conditions were unsafe, and the shoring collapsed one day crushing 900 men to death. The superintendent told the foreman: “Go to the docks and hire some more.” Is this the concept of great white father privilege that Winslow alludes to?   

He further makes the statement “…some of the other Caucasian gentlemen who serve with him on the county board.” There is one woman on the board presently and there have been others in the past. There have also been Hispanic county supervisors. But only a DNA test will tell if they had sufficient Native American blood to satisfy those interested in the discrimination of faux diversity such as Winslow. Personally, I believe in voting for the best people irrespective of their genetic heritage and consider that the most democratic perspective.

When one of Boitano’s flyers conscientiously asks what the SEIU expects in return for its contributions to Frank Axe’s campaign, Winslow goes ballistic. His vitriolic response’s attempt at satire backfires as Winslow ends up accurately describing the SEIU by saying “…that most diabolical and heinous of worldwide hegemonic organizations…” They are thugs who use violence and the threat of violence. Just put "SEIU" + "thugs" into your search engine. One item that comes up is a denouncement of their tactics by Dolores Huerta, president of the United Farm Workers. Another video describes them physically intimidating single women, often immigrants with a limited command of English, who are home health care workers. These women dress wounds that won’t heal or change diapers for the incontinent. These are the people the SEIU claims to represent, yet they are just fodder to pay dues to further their radical socialist agenda. I would not take their money. But Winslow thinks they are great folks, probably because he shares their agenda and somehow has rationalized away their style or endorses it.

He charges “possible wrongdoing and/corruption” by the Board of Supervisors regarding the Health and Human Services Building that will never be properly investigated because Louis Boitano, the other supervisors and the DA are all “such great pals”. This is slander, if not libel, especially against the DA. This avenue could be perused. The political machine that Winslow is a part of has no scruples and will stop at nothing. Unless we fight fire with fire, freedom will die in Amador County.

Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett