Here's Lindsay!

As a long-term letter writer and member
of the hate-Bush crowd, Thoryk obviously suffered mightily after the
November 2006 elections, when the democrat-led Congress morphed from a
legislative body into an investigative one, with the Bush
Administration their No. 1 target. Instead of giving Bush and his
minions what Thoryk considered their “just desserts”—long prison
sentences for “war crimes” and “Bush atrocities,”—they failed
completely in criminalizing any actions of Bush or his administration. 

Then in January 2009, the Obama
Administration took office promising change and Thoryk’s hopes again
rose that the Bush Administration would “pay the price” that the author
demanded. Surely, Thoryk’s hopes soared when President Obama announced
the launching of the CIA Tactics Probe under United States Attorney
General Eric Holder. Imagine Thoryk’s disappointment and anger upon
also learning that, a few months after 9/11, Holder had stated on CNN
that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay were, “Not, in fact, people
entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention... given the way
they have conducted themselves.” Also, learning that Bush, Cheney,
Rove, et. al., were not the targets of the probe, only CIA officers or
contractors who crossed the line on rough but permissible tactics, was
likely the final straw for Thoryk, turning him against Obama.

As early as his September 2008 missive,
Thoryk began showing his frustration and bitterness regarding the
political scene. His letter of that date to Syracuse’s daily paper
stated, “We must force George Bush and Dick Cheney to resign. Arrest
the politicians, lobbyists, corporate CEOs and speculators behind the
pillage of taxpayer money.” Wow! Thoryk’s erroneous venting certainly
lends credence to the old saying, “muddled writing usually indicates
muddled thinking.”  

—Richard A. Lindsay

North Syracuse