Letters to the Editor
Egypt Steve
Published Letters: 36 Editor's Choice: 2
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Thanks, Glenn
[Read the article: Democrats bear responsibility for restoring habeas corpus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Dems should attach Habeas restoration to *every single bill passed* in this Congress. Make Bush veto 'em all until he capitulates. It is that important.
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It was just sho-biz
[Read the article: Fondling Stephen Colbert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They were both playing characters. Would you cringe if Fonda kissed a younger man in a movie??
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Aren't date-rape drugs illegal?
[Read the article: Does sex through fraud constitute rape?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is messed up. I mean, if a man gives a woman a drink with a date-rape drug in it, and she drinks it voluntarily, and he doesn't physically force himself on her thereafter ... that's not illegal in Massachusetts?? So what was the difference here, exactly??
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If Steve was not in on the joke ...
[Read the article: Fondling Stephen Colbert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's the not knowing that made this creepy; if Colbert wasn't in on the joke and didn't know it was coming, then yes, it most certainly was sexual harassment.
I just don't think anything happens on TV by accident, not on a show like this. These guys are pros, and Stephen Colbert is serious, big-time, big bucks. This is not a home-movie. And as someone pointed out above, Colbert put this out himself. It was taped, not live.
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Amnesty!
[Read the article: Mike McConnell's clear explanation of FISA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure, Bush wants immunity for his crimes and the crimes of his minions. But while there's nothing wrong with that word, I'd like to see more people -- including you, Glen -- use "amnesty" to describe what Bush wants: amnesty for domestic spies who committed felonies by violating FISA, and even more repugnant, amnesty for torturers and war criminals who got the same deal with the Military Commissions Act. Conservatives *hate* amnesty. I say, rub their noses in the "A" word at every opportunity.
Here's a legal question, though: can legal immunity that is conferred by statute be stripped away by statute, or by court decisions invalidating the laws in question? I know acts can't be criminalized ex-post-facto -- but in this case, we're talking about acts that were crimes when they were committed, then retroactively de-criminalized. Could they be re-criminalized, without violating the Constitution's bar on ex-post-fact laws?
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What was the big deal anyway
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]with the Berke Breathed cartoons? I consider myself sympathetic to Islam, and I have say I saw no grounds whatever for anyone to be religiously offended by the cartoons. At most, they lampooned Muslim sexual restrictions on women, but frankly I didn't even see that they do that -- mostly, they showed the female character using Islam to rebuff the buffoonish sexism of Steve Dallas. But they have nothing to to with Muhammad or the Quran. So any fear of "enraging Muslims" is basically just buying in to paranoid stereotypes pushed by a clueless media.
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Re Update III: What if Broder is right about this?
[Read the article: Limitless wrongness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The assumptions he makes are shocking. Basically, he's saying that the "Serious" class is willing to put aside its doubts about Bush and his war to punish Moveon.org. And how will they do that? By sending more young people to their deaths, and by squandering untold billions more on a futile and illegal war. And since he's a member of the "Serious" class, he knows exactly what he's talking about. That's how they think.
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It's simple.
[Read the article: What happens to private contractors who kill Iraqis? Maybe nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Iraqi government should just arrest them and try them, and taze anyone who tries to stop them, up to and including Sts. Petraeus and Crocker. Repudiate all CPA regulations unilaterally. Join the International Criminal Court. Make Bush eat shit. End of story.
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Next time you have ML on the line
[Read the article: The art of neoconservative innuendo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ask him if he is willing to consider the possibility that we've actually been at war with Iran since 1956, when we conspired to overthrow their democratically-elected government and replace it with a pro-US fascist puppet?
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The legal issues aren't murky at all.
[Read the article: The dark truth about Blackwater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These people are war criminals. They ought to be indicted as such by Iraq, or by any of the various European countries that claim universal jurisdiction for war crimes, and then, if caught outside the U.S. again, they should be taken in chains to the Hague.
What better argument, by the way, for finally ratifying the International Criminal Court treaty? Our claim was always that our justice system was the best in the world, and that it would handle any war crimes committed by U.S. personnel. We see now that that's an utter joke.
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For jimminy Chrissakes!
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The guys who killed 12 million civilians in concentration camps and rained down mechanized destruction on hundreds of thousands of civilians in London and Stalingrad were not terrorists? They were less lethal, and more honorable and civilized, than the Islamofascists who killed 3,000 Americans one day six years ago?
Fuck me. Just fuck me, shoot me, bury me. That's it. I quit.
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OK, glenn --
[Read the article: Col. Boylan's denial]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't this moving into "obsession" territory now? This guy's has a very odd relationship to reality. I think that's now established. But, he's just a middle manager at best, and a flak to boot, not any sort of actual policy-maker or implementer. Can we move on, now? This blog is a lot more interesting when you take on the big boys.