Letters to the Editor
Nequals1
Published Letters: 331 Editor's Choice: 7
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@ Cocktailhag
[Read the article: CNN's John King responds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No worries - I'm not even "from" Akron, but grew up two towns over - farm town that also welcomed the tire/rubber and power plant industry engineers. Favorite "field trip" was looking at all of the pretty colors, sniffing the unique stench and admiring the lunar landscape of the Barberton PPG chemical plant lagoon.
However, early in my childhood, it was not unusual to have blimps fly very low and slow overhead. And for the boys, there was the annual Soapbox Derby.
The highlight of the Beacon Journal was the Sunday funnies section. Blondie, Beetle Bailey and Peanuts from top to bottom. Oh, and my mother's friend's needlepoint column.
Yes, excitement abounded.
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@ HRH
[Read the article: Lawbreaking telecoms still conniving to obtain immunity from Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]America deserves this.. It is only right and fitting that the freedoms of the majority be stripped away since the majority has gleefully cheered on the stripping of the freedoms from the minority.
Not so fast there. As Glenn and others have pointed out many times, the majority of Americans are against the harm that has been wrought against the Constitution.
It is the very disconnect of accountability to we the people by elected officials that is at the crux of the problem. We have been stymied in efforts to bring about that accountability in between elections.
That's a different kettle of fish - just as sitnking rotten, but requiring different methods of disposal, cleansing and restoration.
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@ Svensker
[Read the article: Lawbreaking telecoms still conniving to obtain immunity from Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for providing the activist links.
Under my pseudonymon on the Edwards campaign blog, I have written mutiple pleas with supporting evidence for Edwards to adopt Dodd's Constitutional restoration agenda. I never received any response or feedback, and there doesn't seem to be any push to do this by supporters.
However, it might be interesting if interested commenters here and on other progressive blogs signed up for blog accounts on the Democratic candidates' blogs and began to write and to provide evidence and commentary to advocate around this issue.
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@ HRH
[Read the article: Lawbreaking telecoms still conniving to obtain immunity from Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your point is well taken, but allow me to shed some light. Why not the massive portests? Many reasons, but here are a few that readily come to mind:
*lack of wroker protections - protest and lose one's job, blacklisting, ruined credit, criminalization of beacable assembly, etc.(I am a whistleblower several times over, wrongful termination, blacklisted, now homeless and permanently unemployed - my blog has more of the specifics)
*election fraud (I fled Ohio in 2004 - I know first hand how elections are rigged. I am familiar with the county that demanded that Kenyon College student voters stand outside for many hours.)
*elected officials demonstrate accountability and loyalty to speical interests and simply use voters for ascension into office
* law enforcement carrying out intimidation and oppression of protesters on behalf of s/elected officials (been a target including death threats)
Those are just for starters. Before you casually call for whistleblowing and acts of civil disobedience, know that the average citizen is going to protect self-interests, family and property first. There is a severe dangerousness of dissent.
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re: "Professor Tim Smith"
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again, a would-be critic has made Glenn's points for him. The referenced commenter has complained about being asked to verify his identity and vetting his credentials (as any journalist would do as a routine matter of course), has impugned Glenn without having done any due diligence (as any journalist would do), and when confronted with these omission, proceeded to go to ad hominem (as any journalist would NOT do).
However, because his identity has not been verified as that of the professor from KSU, I cannot accept his comments as having come from that person with those credentials. In other words, I cannot produce the evidence necessary to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the source.
The benevolent thing to do would be to assume that the commenter is not the good professor, and that he or she is playing a practical joke. Help me out, professor.
Caveat emptor.
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@ Gordon
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for verifying the prof's identity. Drat - benevolence wasted and suspicions confirmed.
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@ gc_wall: Only the VOTE will set us free.
[Read the article: Lawbreaking telecoms still conniving to obtain immunity from Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm with you except for your conclusion:
Only defiance can set people free; and only the brave are free or dead.
The vote, with the process and the count tainted as it is, is still the means of last resort to remove those from office who acted against the oath to the Constitution.
And Bystander:
I've been to the Dem campaign site, have registered similar sentiments and supporting arguments for the same - no response from any campaign.
I've called Pelosi's office demanding impeachment with supporting arguments for the same.
I've stood up. I've spoken truth to power - more than once and in more than one location. I have had all of the forces of those in power rain down upon me.
The three branches are off the rails. The fourth estate is in foreclosure. Law enforcement tortures, tasers and kills those that the corporatacracy fears.
It's the vote and only the vote, that has the power of redemption and restoration.
If we fail to use it, then that's the end of the USA.
RIP.
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The Commentariat At Work
[Read the article: Joe Klein rewrites his role in the 1990s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again, Glenn, you strip the hypocrisy bare, and it's not a pretty sight.
What I find so revealing is the continued use of the labels, journalist and reporter, to describe commentary and opining.
Until there is some regulation and regular distinction between the accurate contextual reporting of fact and supporting evidence from that of musing, opinion and commentary, I believe this will continue unabated in the extant corporate model of accountability to investors and ratings ruling advertising revenue. News, fact and evidence are not ingredients in this model.
Thank goodness for the aggregate filters of the blogosphere. Untamable, unregulated, sort of self-policing and able to find, expose and analyze collectively.
No wonder the corporatocracy is so hostile to bloggers - we must be doing it right!