In an open letter response to Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean's weekly mail posing a provocative question meant to discredit Dick Cheney's linking Democrats with terrorist priorities the author points out that it not the criminally insane who are legally responsible for their crimes against humanity, but those of us who support, aid, abet or even merely acquiesce to such crimes

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A Kind Open Letter to Chairman Howard Dean in Responce to His Weekly Mailing, Dear Gov. Dean, The question you pose in the title of your 23 February, weekly mailing is: "I'm a terrorist sympathizer?" Of course you got our attention with such a question. You wanted to remind us that Dick Cheney is still linking Democrats with terrorist priorities. Chairman Howard, there are quite a few of us that do indeed see a real link to between yourself, most of us and terrorism. Our answer to your provocative question has to be, Yes, Yes you are, and we, as well, are sympathizers. NOT because we sympathize with the terrorism of Osama bin Laden, but BECAUSE we have either supported or accepted the world wide terrorism directed by an obviously criminally insane Vice President. The answer is yes, Governor Dean, you and I are terrorist sympathizers, for most of us have acquiesced in silence or in whimpering complaint, to a mad Vice President's insane projects of murder, torture and thievery abroad in other people's countries. And in addition, dear Party Chairman Dean, there seems to be one consummately important legal aspect that is consistently missing from our holier than thou evaluations of this administration's criminally insane deathly military actions in countries not our own, uninvited, and aimed and practiced on groups or factions our government in the past has formerly supported and used. In a court of law, the criminally insane are NOT held responsible for their inhumane acts. On the other hand, those, who support, aid and abet the actions of people who are not in their right mind, ARE responsible, before the law, for the crimes against humanity, and especially, legally accountable for crimes against humanity committed in their name and ostensibly for their benefit. You and we both know, that in Vietnam, America's two political parties conspired, three Democratic and three Republican administrations, to heap criminally insane death and destruction on the largely defenseless agrarian colonial population of the Indochinese peninsula, for nearly twenty years - first by French proxy, and thereafter in our own name. Today, with Iraq and Afghanistan wars ongoing, Americans, tend to think, whew, that mistaken lost war and the millions of deaths it caused - glad it is in the past, and forgotten. Those of us old enough to have lived through then and now, would like to have the criminality and insanity of both past and present recognized, and the responsibility and accountability placed where it belongs. It does not belong with the criminally insane, but rather with their sympathizers.

Authors Website: http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com

Authors Bio:

Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India, in Germany & Sweden Einartysken,and in the US by Dissident Voice; Global Research; Information Clearing House; Counter Currents; Minority Perspective, UK,and others; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong's Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989. Is coordinator of the Howard Zinn co-founded King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign, and website historian of the Ramsey Clark co-founded Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign, which contains a history of US crimes in 19 nations. Dissident Voice supports this website with link at the end of each issue of its newsletter.