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Fordham Law SchoolFLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and HistoryInternational Correspondence10-2-1984Letter from a Costa Rican Supporter to GeraldineFerraroGeraldine FerraroFollow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_internationalPart of the Law CommonsThis Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Correspondence at FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in International by an authorized administrator of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. Formore information, please contact tmelnick@law.fordham.edu.Recommended CitationFerraro, Geraldine, "Letter from a Costa Rican Supporter to Geraldine Ferraro" (1984). International. 355.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_international/355The Honorai>le Geraldine Ferraro The House of Representatives, . Washington, D.C.   San Jose, Costa Rica, Central .America Oct. 2, 1984 Actualized persons fear not to reveal themselves. Dear Mrs. Ferraro: The autodidactic, scattered ref'lections of a fifth grade dropout who hit the streets of N.Y.C. early on - now on the other side of the mountain, pondering the world ant mankind in a remote little think tank. {A) It has come to me lay way of rumor that Reagan descr19ed Walter Mondale {the man I shall vote for) as 9eing "a Jackass". Where-upon our devoutly wished. President te "9e retorted, "he's a Cuttlefish" • ••• Alas, dear Mrs. Ferraro, this retort was inane to say the least. What aaout this dynamically apt depiction: A Laughing Hyena in Sheep's Clothing? {B) If we don't perceive man's still early development on the evolutionary scale, if we can't look history straight in the face, and there9y fail to foresee a catalysmie war in relatively a9solute terms, we then negate our ultimate capacity to act in the name of dynamic rationalism. (6) While minding our defenses within the limits of sanity, and \f:--; the humanist hope for eventual disarmament, we ~who w&l.ked on the Moen should be able to walk into all our tomorrows without fear. For our nation represents more than economic and military power, it represents the Space Age, a glorious age which can open new frontiers for all mankind •••• What altout an internationally joint space exploration ventUre which could engender a vital sense of unity among nations, te very likely bear fruit 9eyoni our present scepe te imagine. • {D) No adversary nation, with the exce~tion where rare patholog-ical retrogression exists, is so alien that we can't contemplate serious, rational dialogue with them. This is the on1y way to prevent paranoia obsessions that inexoraaly lea& te war - especially 97 way of Accident. {E) To descr19e MX's as: •Missiles For Peace", is to renounce God, make a 9leed-pact with the Devil, ani affirm misa11threpy in toto •••• What an irony that I an agnostic can with absolute justice ek&rge 'tfti,a -·t• St. Ronald, whe is ever-ready te gal.lep forth tewarcl a 9om9ea nuclear wasteland with a Bi91e in hand. - if that isn't Satanic ani Crazy, then what is? The. Henora9le Geraldine Ferarro -2-(F) Nuclear proliferation is a meast slouching in mehind our 9acks - and. our Uncle Sam is mainly te 9lame •. The Russians are quite clean b.ere. (G) M&n1' of us have read. "The Call Of The Wild" &: "M~n Street", 'but comparatively few b.ave read Jack London's Hiren Hee1 11 , er Sinclaire Lewis's "It Cant Happen Here" •••• Beware of these prophetic scenarios as America new commences te struggle desperately against histo17 (how many ef us realize that this is what the historically paranoid Russians fear most as they ponder futuristic events? How many' of us know that they have taken our said autaera to heart?) (E) If the dreaded 3rd worli war doesn't intervene and send us all 9ack to Plat•'s allegorieal. cave, er Carl Sagan's mind.-9oggl.ing nuclear winter, these are the impasses that confront us: The Industrial Military Complex now in full swing, com9ine4 with the overarching real.itJ' that our G•vernment, despite the countless aspects of cherished freed.ea, is un4er the egecentric, self-assertive SW&.7 of Plutecrats. Such is the new scene - a gevernment of the riok, 9y the rich, and fer the rich. Thus do we the people, new standing at the etge ef an a9ysa yearn for a President whe will •OVB AMERICA FORWARD tewartl a GRASS ROO!l.'S DBl:OORA~- the only pathwq to a society wherein the huaan personali 1;.y counts, an• the achievement of meaningful. Happiness is pessi9le •••• Antl the only way ef allayin.« Russia's darkest fears. Thus making it pessi9le for her te turn inwara te much needed development in the way ef light g•••s in•uatries, rea& &: highway syst•a, etc. /-May the 9rightest, the 9est, ani ------------- ALL the mrave ge with yeu, P.S. If Jeseph Kraft ia cerrect in his report N tha~ J}fVer has Cynicisa and Self-seekinJ fYeelt se rife in that land. ef ours, t~en th1a may largely account fer the wall ef silence my aany impassione• letters have enceuntere• - Walter Mencll.ale, Eawara Kennedy, Gary Hart, Lawton Chiles, the Newmans ef Freeze Movement, et al. But ene shinin.g exceptien - namely, Governer .AntholJ1' Earl. 

Letter from a Costa Rican Supporter to Geraldine Ferraro

Fordham Law SchoolFLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and HistoryInternational Correspondence9-14-1984Letter from a Costa Rican Supporter to GeraldineFerraroGeraldine FerraroFollow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_internationalPart of the Law CommonsThis Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Correspondence at FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in International by an authorized administrator of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. Formore information, please contact tmelnick@law.fordham.edu.Recommended CitationFerraro, Geraldine, "Letter from a Costa Rican Supporter to Geraldine Ferraro" (1984). International. 354.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_international/354

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