Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 246 Editor's Choice: 22
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Dictartorship and "The War on Terror"
[Read the article: Weekly Standard: Bush has "near dictatorial power"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Aaron Russo said it best in his documentary film "From Freedom To Fascism": "The War on Terror is a war on your freedom."
All wars infringe on the freedom of people, but never have we been involved in war among whose chief purposes seems to be the intimidation and regimentation of the very public the government is supposed to serve.
I say that the dictatorial Decider need to be the subject of intensive investigation by the Congress, with impeachment definitely "on the table".
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Islam: The Synthetic Enemy
[Read the article: "America at a Crossroads" veers to the right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have watched as much of this series as I have been able and it is interesting and engaging.
However, it severely underplays the role America has played in guaranteeing that Islam would become the new Bogeyman after the fall of Soviet Communism. Our weapons manufacturers and big business in general seems to need an external threat to keep the American people from asking too many questions about the way this country of run and keep accepting a culture of crass consumerism and exploitive wastefulness. Al Queda is the creature of the CIA, deliberately provoked to violence. The War on Terror is really a war on the liberty of the American people. In the Orwellian world the neocons made for us, the West is Oceania and Islam is the new Eurasia. The West had lived in peace with the Islamic nations for four hundred years until the demise of Soviet Communism, then it became convenient to raise up a new threat to replace the old.
Once we recognize that our own "leaders" are the people who pose a clear and present danger to our freedom, our security, and the cause of justice, we can divest ourselves of them and begin to heal the wounds they have inflicted on the world.
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Put Inside Locks on Classroom Doors!
[Read the article: "I think he was just a confused kid"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a high school teacher with 27+ years in the classroom. The door to my room swings outward to open and can only be locked with a key from the outside. The drill for responding to a "gunman-on-campus" alert is to lock the door. Guess what? Of all the people in my classroom, only I can do that and to accomplish this task, I must expose myself to whatever threat may be outside . If I were gunned down, all my students would be at the mercy of the weapons-wielding intruder. With the door swinging outward, attempts to barricade the door would be useless.
In the past year I have written my state legislator three times (and President Bush once) to advocate legislation to mandate inside locks on classroom doors. The legislative wheels turn extremely slowly, but I am hoping that a catastrophe of this magniture may spur the legislature into some kind of action. I wrote to my state senator this morning. Please join me in writing to your state representative to help safeguard our children and school employees by mandating inside locks on classroom doors.
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Impeachment Has Been Earned
[Read the article: Is it OK to criticize the president again?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George W. Bush actions as president, his lies, his cronynism, his active campaigns to circumvent, disregard, or nullify provisions of the United States Constitution and federal law, have made him by far the most qualified White House occupant in history for the impeachment process. Impeachment must ALWAYS be on the table, as it is one of the few ways in which the representatives of the American People, the Congress, can check abuses to the awesome power of the federal Executive Branch. Now the Congressional investigative process needs to kick into high gear to find out how the resources of the Peoples' government have been exploited and misused for the enrichment and empowerment of the few. Mr. Bush needs to know that his days of getting his way through whining and blustering are over and that his every action is going to be critically scrutinized by those empowered to remove him from office.
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You Want To Do Something Other Than Just Rant?
[Read the article: The NRA view of school shootings, in pictures]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ranting helps you feel better, but doesn't make the kids any safer. You want kids to be safer? Write to your state legislator to get busy and pass a law that all classrooms be equipped with doors that can be locked from the inside without a key. My classroom, like hundreds of thousands of others across America, can only be locked from the outside and only with a key. A teacher who steps outside to lock the door and is hit by gunfire is not going to be much help in keeping an armed intruder from entering and shooting a bunch of kids. Google your state legislator's name, go to their website and email them demanding immediate action on this issue. I'll take you five or six minutes. Someday, somewhere, a young person will survive an attack in which he or she would otherwise have been killed, thanks to you. Do it!
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Note To Congress: Go Get 'Em!
[Read the article: A Gonzales resignation is not enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The investigative function of Congress needs to kick into high gear. The truth about the prevaricative nature of the Bush Administration must be fully exposed and shouted from the mountaintops. The political and financial oligarchs who chose these half-witted, conscience-challenged rubes to lead the country because of their low price and their willingness to go along with the globalist agenda need to see that there comes a point when we get tired of acting like naive children and refuse to be duped any longer. Neoconism is a cancer on the American body politic and has to be exposed and surgically excised. Its tenents are completely foreign to the traditions of limited government and empowerment of the People that was the vision guiding the foundation of the American nation.
We need two dozen more Henry Waxmans and John Conyers in the House and a dozen Leahys in the Senate to launch an investigative blitzkrieg against the neocon Bushies to learn the how they have corrupted our government in the service of the already rich and powerful.