Letters to the Editor
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 5810 Editor's Choice: 5
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The Golden Rule
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Them with the gold makes the rules.
All crime is "political" and has always been political, ever since the first poor peasant was hung for a sheep as he was for the taking of a lamb in the King's forest. It's nonsense to suggest that it has ever been any other way. That's the sole reason conservatives have wanted to come to power and control the government, not because they wanted to limit government and lower taxes on everyone. They just wanted to make the rules and criminalize other people's politics and behaviors and decriminalize their own law-breaking. It's laughable to hear them whine about the "criminalization of politics" when they have been doing just that by going after trumped-up Democratic party voter fraud cases. Don't whine about the Golden Rule now, Shooter. If you don't like it, become a communist.
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Shooter... the slow rat is the last one in and a rotten egg
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]White House struggles to fill senior key posts
“The Bush administration is facing growing difficulties in filling a rising number of high-level vacancies following a recent spate of senior departures. In the last 10 days alone Mr Bush has lost four senior officials and more resignations are expected to follow. ‘I wouldn’t describe this as disintegration,’ said one senior official. ‘But there are worrying large gaps opening up and it is very hard to recruit high-quality people from outside.’
Maybe if you stay in a Holiday Inn tonite, Shooter, you can get a job with the maladministration. You could be the last rat to leave the sinking ship.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3828401e-fd89-11db-8d62-000b5df10621.html
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Pooty
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One guy has pleaded guilty to doing something Pat Leahy did
In Leahy's case, the information was not classified and it was determined there was no ethical or criminal violation. Leahy leaked unclassified non-sensitive information to an American journalist, not agents of a foreign power. The leak to the press in the Franklin case came from the administration so the FBI would be forced to act, forestalling any further investigation. Franklin was sacrificed, like Plame, to protect the real criminals in our government and other Israeli covert agents.
and providing classified information was also applauded by the left in the NSA leaks to the NY Times.
Since 2000 the amount of non-sensitive information being classified by the government has reached astronomical proportions. It's a canard to claim this is onlyn a concern of "the left" but you know that. It's not OK no matter what party or political alignment you adhere to. It's only applauded by authoritarians, hypocrites and criminals with something to hide. We've been over this before. None of what the NYTimes published was news to anyone. NYTimes, 7/2005:
Driven in part by fears of terrorism, government secrecy has reached a historic high by several measures, with federal departments classifying documents at the rate of 125 a minute as they create new categories of semi-secrets bearing vague labels like "sensitive security information."
Keeping Secrets
A record 15.6 million documents were classified last year, nearly double the number in 2001, according to the federal Information Security Oversight Office. Meanwhile, the declassification process, which made millions of historical documents available annually in the 1990's, has slowed to a relative crawl, from a high of 204 million pages in 1997 to just 28 million pages last year.
The increasing secrecy - and its rising cost to taxpayers, estimated by the office at $7.2 billion last year - is drawing protests from a growing array of politicians and activists, including Republican members of Congress, leaders of the independent commission that studied the Sept. 11 attacks and even the top federal official who oversees classification.
The other was found guilty of perjury, to which the JURORS thought he should be pardoned.
The jurors thought he was a fall guy, sacrificed, like Franklin and Plame and many others before them. They wanted Rove, Cheney and Bush, and not so they could pardon them, so they could convict them.
I'll stack that up against Feinstein, Reid and Cool Cash Jefferson D-La any old time.
And yet, with a DoJ salted with political partisan hacks from Liberty University, not one conviction. Has Jefferson even been indicted yet? Maybe that's the problem, Incompetent political partisan hacks.
And some say Glenn Greenwald's trolls are the classiest on the internet. If you guys are the cream of the crop, no wonder you couldn't hold onto power.
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A-Litter of p-p-pups
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had no idea we were the subject of discussion elsewhere in the blogosphere, but I for one will accept the compliment.
Trolls are never discussed anywhere in the blogosphere, are they? And Glenn's blog has never been discussed, has it?. You would think it's noteworthy to be considered superior to some of the more famous trolls. If anything, it was a compliment to Glenn and the level of intelligence of the diverse and numerous readers his blog, with the exception of this just modest enough to exclude himself commentor, and the trolls like you, of course.
Paul,
You are correct. It should read, "Not even the slowest of incompetent partisan hacks is stupid enough or brave enough to sign on board this jinxed and sinking ship. The bottom of that barrel has been scraped clean away until there is no bottom left."
The Financial Times is more like The Onion without a sense of humor. Hey. How is that right wing parody news show doing?
Shooter, you do have a talent, (for something), but you've got to lay off the gratuitous alliteration stop puh-puh-puh-p-peeing in your Sugar Puh-Puh-Pops.
So, we don't care about the yapping of pit yorkies. It's all just noise. Meanwhile there are interesting things going on in the world, much more interesting than the latest paroxysm of petulance, practiced by pusillanimous partisans. And I am here to help.