Letters to the Editor
SeanStuart
Published Letters: 7 Editor's Choice: 1
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President Declares 2+2 Equals 22, Some Disagree
[Read the article: Time tries again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're taking on a herculean task Mr. Greenwald, that is, to retrain the press. The mainstream media has atrophied so much to the point that I'd suspect Time and Klein genuinely don't understand what fact-checking is. Of course they haven't read the actual bill and probably never will. They're idea of fact-checking is to simply call up the same dissembling pol and ask them "Are you sure? OK thanks."
Reading the FISA bill does not even occur to them, and the suggestion that they might is met with genuine confusion and dismissal at such a silly idea. They're used to having their peas spoon-fed to them, and don't know how to eat otherwise.
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They don't want the other spouse to have the last word
[Read the article: Long live mad married people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ha!
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"Honor Killings" ... "Dowry Deaths" ... Whatever
[Read the article: Blame Muslims for honor killings?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There seem to be many different "cultural" explanations and terms for instances when men kill women, the implication being that it's not murder, but rather a culturally justifiable practice with which we disagree.
Meanwhile, it also seems that no matter what culture we're talking about, when a woman kills a man it is always called the exact same thing: "murder." And the murderer is treated as such. None of this "Oh, well, it's just their way I suppose," when a woman kills a man.
These terms given to the murder of women by men is nothing more than men in male-dominated societies justifying the brutal killing of the opposite sex.
(I'm a dude.)
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Harry Potter, anyone?
[Read the article: Saudi Arabia goes old school]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't help but be reminded of the documentary "Jesus Camp," which showed footage of an evangelical youth minister railing against Harry Potter and noting, with screaming anger, that he would have been put to death in the Biblical era.
I couldn't help but realize: These people actually think that witchcraft is real. And apparently, Saudis aren't the only ones who think it should be punishable by death.
God, I love my country.
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When the Constitution starts donating as much money ...
[Read the article: House Democratic leadership: not just complicit but also self-destructive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to the Democrats as the telecomm corporations, then you might see a fight. Not one second before.
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Maybe I'm being too picky here
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"She could spend as much as two decades behind bars for allegedly holding a walkie-talkie."
What the hell is that? The whole point of your article is that Waters could be innocent of the charges. This statement is a pointless minimization of the crime. She would not be locked up for "holding a walkie-talkie." She would be locked up for aiding and abetting an arson that caused over 2 million in property damage, plus destroying valuable environmental research.
Stick to your point. This one statement hurts your argument.
Nonetheless, thank you for the article. It's clear to me that this campaign by the Bush Justice Department is not as much about catching arsonists as it is about sending a chill through law-abiding environmental organizations.
It's like torture. They know it doesn't work - the real purpose of it is to spread fear in the innocent population of Iraq and beyond to squash dissent against the United States.
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The intent of the ad is not to link gang members with Al Qaeda ...
[Read the article: A Willie Horton ad for a new generation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as much as it is to link Obama with gang members. Fear is the strongest weapon in the Republican bag. This is simply an attempted mesh of their now commonplace Fear of Terrorism tactic with the tried and true Fear of Blacks tactic.
If you're trying to judge the ad on its logical merits, then you're missing the point, for it is not a logical argument that the Republicans are attempting to make. Rather, they are trying to stimulate that knee-jerk, emotional, and Republican part of the brain called the amygdala.
Obama. Black. Gangs. Black. Kill whites. Fear. Terrorists. Kill Whites. Fear. Obama. Kill Whites. Black. Fear.