Letters to the Editor
SusanMc
Published Letters: 463 Editor's Choice: 1
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Teh Stupid. It Burns.
[Read the article: Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]bernbart:
However I'm not doing anything illegal.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph on a cracker. Ask your alleged husband if all of his clients are guilty as charged, and if all his wives missed points by as wide a margin as you have.
Glenn, I'm sorry you had to take any time out of your day to deal with stuff like this; it must be distracting, to say the least, and frustrating. Thank you so much for all the work you've done on this issue; you are a clarion voice.
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Let Them Eat It
[Read the article: Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I loved this comment, from someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
Yes, the yellowcake we knew they had since the UN inspectors bagged and tagged it a decade and half or so ago.
That's what Bush meant by WMDs...
Why he didn't just say "the WMDs we left there last time" I'll never know.
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@ *Snort* ondelette
[Read the article: Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]BTW, I lied about seeing you in the Navy brig. They use those funny goggles there so I won't be able to see you.
Missed you, too, ondelette. Welcome back to The Danger Zone!
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Sign Me Up
[Read the article: Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]adnoto:
those advocating the peaceful and historically proven direct action tactics of mass demonstration, sit-ins, boycotts, marches
I didn't realize you'd organized any of these. When are they? I'll go!
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@ susan sunflower
[Read the article: Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there some reason no one has mentioned David Sirota and his book "Uprising" ...
I mentioned his appearance at the TPM Cafe BookClub yesterday:
http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/09/fisa_vote/permalink/2378ef5b80811294f9536470d3b49bb1.html
http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/09/fisa_vote/permalink/e02baf243976d632b2e343b68cf6cedc.html
It was good.
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@ susan sunflower
[Read the article: Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No worries. No one can read all the posts here (or would want to, without sufficiently strong libations) and Sirota's ideas deserve many more mentions.
He'll be appearing at Netroots Nation, btw, on a panel discussing his book:
Taking the Populist Uprising to the States
This panel will explore how the progressive populist uprising in which the Netroots plays such a central role is fighting the right at the state level. This state-level battle is a major focus of David Sirota's new book "The Uprising," which chronicles how progressives in the Montana legislature are taking on some of the most powerful bastions of the conservative coalition and winning. It is also the reason why the Progressive States Network exists. The panel will use real-world case-studies to show how state legislatures are some of the most important arenas in which the progressive uprising is unfolding.
http://www.netrootsnation.org/node/832
I'm looking forward to this one.
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Help!
[Read the article: Torture and the rule of law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm with the Reverend. I really think we need an intervention by some civilized nations that don't sanction torture. They must have seen this coming-- after all, we invaded and destroyed another country that posed no threat to us. What won't we do? We must be stopped!
I was struck by your reference in Great American Hypocrites to an article in the Washington Post last year about some WW II veterans who were being honored for their service as the story of Fort Hunt unfolds-- and in the process expressed their horror at our currently approved interrogation techniques-- so I sought it out:
"During the many interrogations, I never laid hands on anyone," said George Frenkel, 87, of Kensington. "We extracted information in a battle of the wits. I'm proud to say I never compromised my humanity."
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"We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture," said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100502492_pf.html
How ironic is it that today's military is demonstrably inhumane at a time when it is reportedly being stacked with Christian fundamentalists?
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/keep_that_sword_out_of_the_han.php
I can only hope there are still some soldiers left, like that elite group in WWII, who refuse to compromise their humanity. Perhaps the atheists?