Letters to the Editor
GeeJay
Published Letters: 117 Editor's Choice: 19
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Mukasey the Lesser
[Read the article: Mukasey's radical worldview is now the norm]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to agree with an earlier letter that questions giving any Bush appointee the benefit of the doubt when it comes to an appointee maintaining a level of independence.
As clearly demonstrated in your article, the Bush administration is a criminal cabal. Such cabals are interested primarily in self preservation. The Bush administration is no different than a drug lord or a violent dictatorship in regards to modus operandi. One of the primary operatives of these cabals is to never put anyone in a place of responsibility unless that person is guaranteed to be a second voice of the leader. Guaranteed.
I enjoy reading this author’s articles and I think he does a great service for our country. But there is a time to stop believing in knights riding in on white horses. There will be no one from the Republican side of the aisle who will have enough balls or ovaries to demand that the laws of this country apply to all citizens, including citizens who are armed and dangerous.
These elected officials are political cowards. Watch how brave and fierce these Republican lap dogs will become next January, when their leashes are loosed as their power drunk leaders leave town to pollute wherever they come from.
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Good Knight!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“Bobby” Knight. The “General”. He ranks up with the best in many categories, including:
Most cowardly. He shows his “courage” only against the defenseless.
Biggest quitter. He quit coaching his team in almost every one of his last 10 consecutive tournament losses. He quit from the team in Texas on his terms, as all quitters do.
Insulting person. No need to elaborate.
Anti social person. No need to elaborate.
Overrated coach. Look at his results over the last 15 years, despite having the ability to recruit any player he wanted. Of course most players had the sense to stay away.
Poor huntsman. How many people have been shot by him lately during his hunting trips? We can only wish that he and Dick Cheney would team up as a twosome and head into the woods together.
Flip flopper. One of his best was condemning and berating with dripping vitriol for years those who used lawyers to sue. Of course what did this bastion of rectitude do after being fired from Indiana? You guessed it, he hired a slew of lawyers and sued.
And so on… He is a person who never grew up. Unlike coach K, who started out in a similar career path as “Bobby”, “Bobby” remained an emotional and cognitive 12 year old. Coaching at Army may have been his downfall because Army cadets expected abuse from authority figures and Knight had free reign to dispense with his adolescent tirades. He could never separate that environment from the rest of the world.
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History repeating itself
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On the surface the actions you described in your article are hurtful to the perceived privacy rights of U.S. citizens. I agree that the legislation outlined in your article is a disservice to the future of our country.
Below the surface I see a different story. The type of spying that was outlined in your article has been going on for 40 years in this country, going back to at least the Nixon administration. It was just kept more secret than it has with the current Bush administration. The Democratic senators mentioned in the article have corporate ties to the communications industry along with long political ties to the U.S. government’s practice of illegal searches. (Not to mention Rockefeller’s membership in the Sub/Full committee on Communications.)
The practice of protecting one’s own butt, and protecting their cash cows, over the enforcement of the laws of the U.S. Constitution is a time worn practice of elected Washingtonian politicians.
It reminds me of a story related to illegal searches by the CIA. The CIA conducted one of many studies on the illegalities that it performed over the years. When the study worked its way upstairs, the decision was made that the revelations of crimes reported in the study, if released to the public, would be too harmful for the country. The ideals that prop up this country would be shown to be made of sand. Thus the study was squashed in the name of protecting the country from the truth, while absolving all involved from criminal prosecution unless the truth become known.
Similarly, the reason for squashing any hope of investigation or prosecution is being rationalized as protecting the country during in such troubling times. To find fault in our government would only be helping the terrorists.
Same old, same old. Courage is obviously not a prerequisite of elected officials.
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Lessons learned
[Read the article: How the press failed on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The author Greg Mitchell asks, “Will the lessons be heeded?” Unfortunately the lessons have been heeded by those who would be kings. The current administration and FOB (Friends Of Bush) wannabes have learned from the past how to start a war and leave the cleanup to others. After all, is there a better way to stimulate profits?
One of Woodrow Wilson’s propagandists, during the World War One effort against Germany, came up with the term “Freedom Cabbage” to rename sauerkraut. Does such boorishness and lameness of thought sound familiar?