Letters to the Editor
DurianJoe
Published Letters: 1494 Editor's Choice: 69
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Prison is for poor people, not rich traitors
[Read the article: Libby spared the clink]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is anyone surprised? Lewis "Scooter" Libby is a member of the elite ruling class. They don't go to prison, they don't pay taxes. They only murder and steal and lie and cheat so that their useless offspring can party in multiple timezones (see Hilton, Paris).
The Bush Administration is simply another criminal enterprise of the ruling class. They are above the law. There is no getting rid of them until January 2009.
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Break the cycle of dysfunction.
[Read the article: Why Cory Booker is mad as hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What can Cory Booker do? He certainly can raise a righteous voice against a misguided, draconian "war on drugs" and for-profit prison system that absolutely encourages black people to end up behind bars. He can agitate for more business investment in Newark. He can help elect progressive Democrats in New Jersey, the better to rid our that state and our land of the nazis known as Republicans.
He should also demand that his fellow African Americans fight the dysfunction within their communities: the misogyny, the disrepect for education, the use of violence to settle arguments. He should use tax money to provide free and plentiful contraceptives to girls and boys to break the debilitating cycle of teen pregnancy, poverty, and familial dysfunction. He can, in sum, tell his constitutency that though they live in a world of shit, partly of their own making, mostly of the powers that be, they themselves need not be limited by it. They must rise above the filth.
That's what we all need in this broken land of ours.
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Werner Herzog? He can go to hell.
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, but I can't separate the artist from the art in this case. Maybe if Herzog was dead and in hell where he belongs, I would pay money to see one of his films, but I won't give the guy even a millionth of a penny while he's still sucking air that he doesn't deserve.
The bastard purposely put an animal on a raft and sent it over the falls while filming "Aguirre." For art, so-called, or because he's an egomaniacal fuck? Doesn't matter. Klaus Kinski almost beat the shit out of him for the way he treated animals and the human actors/crew during the making of that movie. Too bad he held back.
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Pull the wool over your own eyes.
[Read the article: Why Cory Booker is mad as hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's easier that way.
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America could use a black President (and yoohoo, Thrashy)
[Read the article: Barack Obama in New Orleans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Our country would greatly benefit from having a black President, or alternatively a woman President. All things being equal, I would vote for Obama or Clinton, and then between the two of them, whichever was more in line with my values.
Unfortunately, Clinton is too far right for me, and Obama hasn't yet demonstrated a passion for social and economic justice. Until either of those two individuals does better, I'm for Edwards (Kucinich is great; Kucinich doesn't stand a prayer).
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Thrashy, I'm not the Anonymous below who called you out for the racist and anti-semite that you proudly are, but it's nice to take this opportunity to do so again. By the way, you remind me of a punk lawyer from D.C. whose first name is Malik, second name (at least for awhile) was a certain African tribe, and whom I had the pleasure of calling a hustler on NPR. Might you be that self-same bigoted lunatic, O Icon?
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"because you, like most Americans, have ceded to the corporate-controlled media your legal and constitutional right to select the best candidate. "
[Read the article: Barack Obama in New Orleans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not quite, Futhark. Just like I know I will never pilot a space shuttle or win an Ultimate Fighting championship, I know that in 2008 Dennis Kucinich will not be the Democratic candidate. It's called ceding to reality.
Ron Paul speaks a good game on Iraq, but he's a rightwing lunatic on every other issue. I can understand your principled support of Kucinich, but Paul too? Does not compute.
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So much for "honest discussions" of race
[Read the article: Why Cory Booker is mad as hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Deering, you wrote: "No one _ever_ gets on the values of rich white people when folks like Paris Hilton act out--or executives like Ken Lay steal people blind."
That's nonsense. Bashing the corrupt and clueless white upper class is the bread and butter of Salon writers and readers. You just choose not to see it, just like you apparently choose not to see much else.
You call me and Healthy Skeptic less than human because we have the temerity, as white people, to discuss the problems afflicting black people in this country. Fine, we'll go away, and then let black people like you discuss the same damn thing.
I worked as a volunteer attorney for abused and neglected children in D.C. I know what I'm talking about. But, I'm white, so my opinion must be racist, right?
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Pissants
[Read the article: Why Cory Booker is mad as hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What an amazing bunch of crybabies and ostriches. You all need to grow up.
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Response to KStone, and Thrasher the racist.
[Read the article: Why Cory Booker is mad as hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]KStone, being that I've spent my entire adult like living in a majority black city, socializing more with black people than white people, and working more with black people than white people, and given that my professional work made me very knowledgeable of the problems afflicting poor, urban black people, and being that I read the news, yeah, I think I know something about urban "AA" culture. You just don't like the fact that I'm not black yet dare talk about it. Too bad, but understandable. Despite the antagonism on this board, I'm not your enemy.
Thrasher, you're a joy to read. Incidentally, how goes the sidewalk sales of incense and "Final Call?"