Letters to the Editor
bucky1
Published Letters: 1714
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A Progressive for Ron Paul on CommonDreams
[Read the article: New disappearance revelations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/09/1770/
Sean Gonsalves on CommonDreams.org:
A belated, Texas-sized, Ten-Gallon Hats-off to Congressman Ron Paul. I still haven’t gotten over what he said during the Republican presidential debate in South Carolina a few weeks back on live TV!
When he was asked if he really wanted the troops to come home, Paul pointed to the BIG elephant in the elephant party tent. (The GOP tent has several elephants, and a few 800-pound gorillas too, but I digress).
Paul provided a quick GOP history lesson for dummies, reminding his uncomfortable audience that “the conservative wing of the Republican Party always advocated a noninterventionist foreign policy.”
He reminded them about Taft’s objection to joining NATO; about Bush campaigning in 2000 espousing “a humble foreign policy - no nation-building, no policing of the world;” about Republicans being elected to end the Korean and Vietnam Wars; about the “strong tradition” of anti-war Republicanism going back to the Founders’ non-interventionist ideas.
The predictable paranoiac - I mean, “patriotic”- question followed. But didn’t 9/11 “change everything?”
Sounding like one of those “blame-America-first, wacko Leftists,” Paul said U.S. foreign policy was a “major contributing factor” to 9/11. “Have you ever read the reasons they attacked us? They attacked us because we’ve been over there; we’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years.”
“We’re building an embassy in Iraq that’s bigger than the Vatican,” plus 14 other permanent bases in the Middle East. “What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting. We need to look at what we do from the perspective of what would happen if somebody else did it to us.” ...
Interesting. As more comes out, like Glenn's latest post, on the immoral actions of my government at all levels, I hope to see an anti-war candidate make a big splash. If Paul can just educate the blinded in the GOP that the party has been hijacked by crazies; they may stay home and not vote.
I expect the Democratic Party to spend the next several years investigating the wrongdoing. You can not let people who tortured and abused children go unpunished! (even if only in the court of public opinion)
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We mistreat kids here
[Read the article: New disappearance revelations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bob Herbert has a column on how we mistreat school kids in this country; can we get some outrage over this wild issue as well? It is all interconnected to the fear-mongering by the "zero-tolerance" crowd. This is bipartisan stupidity.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060907C.shtml
School to Prison Pipeline
The latest news-as-entertainment spectacular is the Paris Hilton criminal justice fiasco. She's in! She's out! She's - whatever.
Far more disturbing (and much less entertaining) is the way school officials and the criminal justice system are criminalizing children and teenagers all over the country, arresting them and throwing them in jail for behavior that in years past would never have led to the intervention of law enforcement.
This is an aspect of the justice system that is seldom seen. But the consequences of ushering young people into the bowels of police precincts and jail cells without a good reason for doing so are profound.
Two months ago I wrote about a 6-year-old girl in Florida who was handcuffed by the police and taken off to the county jail after she threw a tantrum in her kindergarten class.
Police in Brooklyn recently arrested more than 30 young people, ages 13 to 22, as they walked toward a subway station, on their way to a wake for a teenage friend who had been murdered. No evidence has been presented that the grieving young people had misbehaved. No drugs or weapons were found. But they were accused by the police of gathering unlawfully and of disorderly conduct. ...
The rest is as good as this part, and worth your time.
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Another bigoted slander on anti-war Ron Paul
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The slander: "...The Birchers love Ron Paul. He is one of them."
I thought that most everyone here was in agreement that Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman went nuts on TV today. He spoke for the destruction of Iran just to make Israel feel safer. So, I thought that we could dispense with the normal defamation and bigotry from LWM for the day. But, more guilt by dubious association. This is Rovian!
Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who wants to bring all the troops home; and leave Iran alone. The anti-war Americans love him --- he is one of us, if anyone. John Stewart seems to love the guy. Tucker Carlson invited him to tutor viewers on real liberty. I posted about a famous progressive that lauded Paul on commondreams.org.
It is true of both people and also ideas, that they are not guilty simply because of who may lend support. This has been part of logic for a long time; did it get revoked?
Now LWM takes this opportunity to turn from the topic and man selected by Glenn, to slander some other man by linking him to some disliked group. This is the same as that damn VP yelling that Iraq is all about 9-11. I for one am tired of seeing this slimy tactic used by anyone.
Saddam/9-11,Saddam/9-11,Saddam/9-11 and now Paul/Birchers
and all without even one god damn position that LWM does not like --- just slander of the person. Is there not some nice little Latin phrase for this cheap human waste tactic? Anyone who uses this filthy tacic needs to be gobsmacked.
If LWM loves the war so much, why does he not volunteer to serve? Does anyone here think ad hominem is beneath this comment section?
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html
Bigot: A bigot is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from his or her own.
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-- nomogen (paragraphs)
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please use paragraphs; some of us have trouble reading the small type without a break here and there.
Thanks, in advance.
-b1