Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 246 Editor's Choice: 22
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I Voted Democratic For 37 Years Until Democrats Sold Out To Bush/Cheney
[Read the article: They don't call them "unscientific" surveys for nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm now a registered Republican supporting Ron Paul. He's running as a Republican on a traditional Republican platform and seems to be the only candidate in this campaign other than Dennis Kucinich who is willing to stand up before the American people and speak the truth about the frauds being perpetrated on them in the name of government. Every other candidate is irretrievably tied to the corporate power elite that is exploiting the resources and people of our nation in support of an intrusive, authoritarian oligarchy.
Only Ron Paul stands by the Constitution while others give it lip service and subvert its mandates with ill-considered legislation and executive orders. Ron Paul can be trusted to fulfill his oath of office to the letter without being seduced by the power of the presidency into accelerating the current drift toward tyranny.
I'm not under 35 (obviously) but I value my privacy and my liberty. I am a dedicated participant in voting for Ron Paul on Internet polls because it generates articles like the current one in a press that would rather ignore and belittle candidates who oppose the lemming march to fascism.
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Fiscal Responsibility
[Read the article: Ron Paul, sitting prettier than McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Ron Paul Campaign's frugality reflects the philosophy of the candidate himself and the approach he would take in helping manage the federal budget: no deficit spending, no tax burdens imposed on future generations for current extravagances.
Not only is Ron Paul "sitting prettier" than John McCain in the size of his campaign fund, but the money just keeps rolling in from supporters who like his honesty, style, and message of personal and political liberty, political independence, and fiscal responsibility. According to ronpaulgraphs.com, the Paul campaign has raised almost one million dollars since the beginning of this month.
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Healthcare??? Join The Boycott!
[Read the article: The healthcare war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By the way, Janalu is absolutely right. The medically uninsured and underinsured represent a very large reservoir of infectious disease microbes that present a threat to everyone.
And now, my main topic...What's with this newfangled world "healthcare"? My spell checker underlines it in red, indicating that it 1) constitutes improper usage or 2) the spell checker is so 20th Century (the spell checker also underlined "spellchecker" when I typed that by mistake).
Aren't we really talking about universal medical insurance? We either take care of our own health or not, depending on diet, exercise, sleep, etc. and what we are really interested here is getting some medical attention in cases of serious disease or injury that will not result in personal bankruptcy. Aside from using it to protest the term, I'm boycotting "healthcare" and annoyingly correcting everyone who uses it in conversation.
I invite all who value precise use of language to join me.
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Bush Blew His Cover As A Conservative
[Read the article: How Bush wrecked conservatism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]when he offered that tax "rebate" his first term. If he had been are real conservative he would have applied the budget surplus to paying down the national debt.
Bush and Cheney have conserved nothing during their 7 years in office other than the power and influence of the corporate globalist financial elite and their own freedom from impeachment and prosecution.
I'm looking forward to seeing neocon betrayers of all sound principles of governance, the U.S. Constitution, and the good will and resources of the American people leaving office covered with tar and feathers riding a rail, bound for indefinite confinement in Guantanamo.
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America's Use Of WMDs In Iraq
[Read the article: Chris Floyd for Glenn Greenwald: Rain of terror in the U.S. air war in Iraq ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As I understand it, most of the world's nations have voluntarily agreed to refrain from using napalm in warfare and I doubt that many would use depleted uranium in projectiles. Napalm is considered to be a WMD. By using these weapons the United States appears to the rest of the world to be engaged in terrorism, prosecutable as a war crime.
Since the confirmation of the absence of Iraqi WMDs, no moral justification can be given for the continued U.S. military presence in Iraq. The evil acts our warriors perform in continuing the occupation confer shame on our entire nation.
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What's The Difference?
[Read the article: One of these things is not like the other]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Clinton might have a more nuanced approach to the "War On Terror" than George W. Bush, but she is serving the same "base", the corporate globalist elite. She would keep American troops actively intervening in the internal affairs of other countries to secure resources and markets for transnational corporations. Aaron Russo said it best, "The 'War On Terror' is a war on your freedom."
If you want American soldiers to continue bleeding and dying and the taxpayers continuing to be bilked out of 100s of billions of dollars annually to support transnational corporations, just keep voting for "front runner" candidates who have received the blessings of corporate controlled media. Don't pay any attention to the "fringe" candidates like Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, or Ron Paul.
There needs to be a totally new direction for America, away from violence, meddling, and intimidation. There is no question that "markets" will suffer in the short run, but who can truly say that the current approach is anything but a lemming march to catastrophe?
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What It Takes To Be A "Front Runner"
[Read the article: Chris Dodd's leadership vs. Clinton and Obama's game playing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What it takes is a Faustian bargain with the corporate globalist financial elite to serve and shill for them. The big corporations that run the mainstream media reward their indentured servants with 100s of millions of dollars worth of free publicity and appoint them as "front runners", the only "serious" candidates. The poor folks who only have integrity and the best interests of the American people don't stand a chance, but are marginalized and ridiculed. Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Chris Dodd, Ron Paul...any of these would be a vastly superior leader of the American republic than the brass-plated blowhards the corporate media is foisting on the public.
The reason the Democratic Congress hasn't been able to reign in the Bush Administration's crimes and follies is that they, too, are beholden to their masters in the boardrooms.
Until the unholy dominance of corporations over American political life is broken, you can look forward to an increasing number of outrages against diplomacy and ethics by our erstwhile "representatives" in Washington.