Letters to the Editor
dkallem
Published Letters: 3
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One, Two Punch Back
[Read the article: Impeach Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How, Miles H, was Garrison's suggestion that presidential candidates have military service, "...truly appalling neo-fascist militarism, antidemocratic to its core..."? You threw these epithets out so easily, yet gave no explanation for your conclusion, so this appears as mere name calling. (And is needing to raise upwards of many, many millions of dollars to simply run for president--among many other onerous "requirements"--any less "anti-democratic"?)
I do agree with you that the notion of impeaching GW is a good idea and likely a fantasy, but am curious about your animosity toward the mandatory-service-to-become-president idea, an idea which seems worth exploring and hardly a sop to those who lean right. Please elucidate...
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What bgrasso May Have Been Saying...
[Read the article: "We're here. We're not going anywhere"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think, Anonymous, that the "point" bgrasso is trying to make (if you were seriously inquiring) is that there is now unrest present in the masses (as versus the "captains" of industry and other privileged classes) sufficient to generate actions that result in their coverage by the so-called mainstream media. Their other, corollary point here being that these same, self-satisfied Americans will be insufficiently motivated to demand change in our "present situation" unless their lives are sufficiently impacted.
In other words, bgrasso's point seemed to be to me that there is something bigger going on here than meets the eye. I remain unconvinced of this, at least in this particular instance, given that what is now worshipped in this country is MONEY and the endless pursuit of it, and not the liberty our founding father fought and died for. I believe these "protesters" are motivated primarily by economic reasons, as in, you've got yours--I want mine!
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Peace...now!
[Read the article: When panic attacks!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is unsurprising that this writer is often anxious. Like many of us, she seems to conflate the little voice in her head with "who she is," "how things really are," or whatever else the voice seems to be telling her, apparently not seeing through the illusion of the past and the future, of her individual ego and the world of mere form.
Many religions, philosophies and poets--Buddhism, Vedanta or Blake among others--urge us to see through the fiction of (not get rid of) these "mind-forged manacles" and attend better to what actually is, namely this present moment and the indivisable whole that is life.
Peace isn't to be achieved at some imagined future date, it is only realized...now!