Letters to the Editor
Silenced
Published Letters: 1358 Editor's Choice: 75
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But he's going to get us into a different predicament
[Read the article: What you missed while watching the new "Bionic Woman"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Had my judgment prevailed back in 2002, we wouldn't be in this predicament," he says.
Well, buddy, you appear to be the favorite candidate of the New York prison guards union.
Come and look at the predicament the prison guards union has caused in California. Neither the state legislature, the governer nor the federal courts are able to control them at all.
We can't have the prison reform program that the voters want, because the prison guards union won't allow it. And they fight dirty so they always get what they want and the voters and the politicians and the judges can go to hell.
So think that over while you're spending that wonderful abundant overflowing prison guard union money on your campaign.
By the way, why DO prison guards have so much money available for buying politicians?
With what they see every day, you'd think they'd want to invest their big fat wads of cash in social programs to keep people OUT of prison.
But that's not how they invest their money. They invest their money in politicians whose tough on crime politics are good for the prison industry's future growth.
So Obama -- they're counting on you to get this whole country into the predicament that's facing California.
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He's not a grown up
[Read the article: Bill O'Reilly's double standard]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's a spoiled child who alternates between tantrums and passive aggression.
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If they REALLY want more troops
[Read the article: Does a bigger Army mean another Iraq?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They might consider slowing down the rate at which young Americans being incarcerated.
You can't have an incarceration rate the size of America's and still support the size of the military force they're talking about.
This country is a nightmare. Nobody cares about reality any more.
Nobody.
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So who is this "we"? Is it just you or does it include me?
[Read the article: The bionic eucalyptus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who owns Nature?
Do scientists really own Nature?
If they think they have the right to change it, then they must think they literally own all of it and the people who don't work in their lab don't own any of it.
That's a mind-blowing sense of entitlement at work, I must say.
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By the way I didn't watch TV last night
[Read the article: What you missed while watching the new "Bionic Woman"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I went to the Dorothy Chandler to see Fidelio, an opera set in a prison, where Beethoven addresses themes of freedom and compassion and middle class culpability in the propagation of oppression.
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Know what's really funny?
[Read the article: Verizon: Abortion rights potentially "unsavory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right now Verizon is locked in a painful legal battle with the estate of Bob Marley over whether Verizon will be the exclusive provider of Bob Marley ringtones.
It's amazing that they could be so hypocritical as to censor NARAL pro-choice ringtones while fighting for exclusive control over Ganja Bob.
It's almost like the direct opposite of the censorship (cough) editorial policy at Salon.
Kudos to Bob Marley -- still feeding and clothing underprivileged media executives 26 years after his death.
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Correction
[Read the article: Verizon: Abortion rights potentially "unsavory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's amazing that they could be so hypocritical as to censor NARAL pro-choice TEXT MESSAGING while fighting for exclusive control over Ganja Bob.
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I guess there's one good thing you can say about alcohol
[Read the article: I'm working for a cokehead at a free arts magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Alcohol addicts haven't been forced pay black market prices since the end of Prohibition, so it's a much cheaper addiction to manage, financially speaking.
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He's such a sick, sad man
[Read the article: Rush Limbaugh and the "phony soldiers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you only knew about the kind of Christians who listen to Rush, then you might wonder where the phrase "Christian humanism" ever came from. Who made that one up, eh?
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Marching over the backs of women everywhere
[Read the article: Don't cry for Saudi Arabia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This affects growth rates in the world for demanding oil in the coming period and contributes to a negative impact on the march of development in our country...
Think of what would happen to the march of development in your country if American women weren't allowed to drive, you shameless mother ducker.
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One more thing about the Saudi march of development
[Read the article: Don't cry for Saudi Arabia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you want to see where a lot of that oil money goes, then come to LA and watch the hookers march to the top floor of the Bel Air Hotel.
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Are the rates really rising or are the criteria are broadening?
[Read the article: Autism debate, Take 5,832]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I recently found out I have Aspergers. Looking back, I see my reclusive intellectual behavior as a child was on the autism spectrum. My nickname was Mrs. Spock. If I were a child in school today, I'm sure I would be tagged by the system. Back then they just called you weird.
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antineocon you beat me to it
[Read the article: "The Kingdom"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ditto
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It's not just people that aren't showing up
[Read the article: Photo of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even when somebody DOES show up, the topic is not going to be how to stop the biggest engine of racial inequality in America today.
That would be the one issue nobody is allowed to talk about in this campaign. The precious, beloved War on Drugs.
For example, last year according to the FBI, there were over 800,000 arrests for marijuana in America. As those 800,000+ human beings move through the system, at every stage there will be an decrease in racial equality in America.
Despite roughly equal rates of use among black and white people, whites are being arrested at a rate of roughly 28/10,000 while blacks get arrested at a rate of about 100/10,000. So the racial de-equalizing has begun already at the arresting stage.
And then you get the case disposition. The racial disparity seen at the arrest level continues up the chain, with blacks getting statistically disproportionate treatment at every stage of the legal process, from rate of conviction to length of sentence.
On top of that, America has a whole system in place that starts to ruin a person's life once he or she is arrested for marijuana. You get kicked out of school, you're not eligible for food stamps, welfare or public housing.
Every year this engine operates, it disproportionately punishes blacks over whites, and pushes blacks further down the social ladder while it helps white people maintain our place on the top.
But whatever -- this subject is obviously BANNED from the election.
I suppose the Democrats can always talk about Katrina. That's certainly worth talking about. That could fill up a debate.
We'll just let the War on Drugs do its racist work for another four years. Right?
Let the racist engine operate exactly as it pleases for another four years. Maybe people will be ready to talk about it in 2012.