Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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Isn't Lexis/Nexis wonderful?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too bad that the SCLM hasn't figured out how to use it yet..... Either that or they're lazy and complacent bastards who should be tossed on the dungheap of history.
Cheers,
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Golden Wanker persists....
[Read the article: Support for al-Qaida plots on large right-wing blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, yeah, there's quite intolerant Islamic states (you know, like the one we are managing to engineer in Iraq). I notice in the litany of states you most recently mention as particularly evil, only one is among those I stated were not really bad (Egypt, which is hardly as bad as you suggest, although your Islamophobia, if translated into anti-Egyptian sentiment and actions, may well enable the Muslim Brotherhood and the fundies there).
But your thesis is that Islam is per se incompatible with toleration and democracy, and that has been beat to death (amongst other things, with quotes from your proffered web page).
As I said, I don't think I have any reason to listen to you; you simply have no experience worth consideration, and your reserach skills are just as deficient.
Which seems to be what pretty much everyone else here has said. You're not being very convincing, and that should give pause for reflection.
Not to mention your silly screed at the top about how those poor passengers were justly terrified by the Big Bad Moooslims and they should have a right to enforce their bigotry. You're a friggin' panty-wetter, and that's a fact. Now take your bigotry, and go FOAD. In a non-discriminatory way.
Cheers,
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@ Golden Wanker
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, to address your last comments to me first, I am certainly not going away, despite your charming invitation to do so.
That's too bad. Because I have a Constitooshun'l Right to be free from having to sit next to Major League A$$holes on airplanes, and I was getting ready to nominate you, dear Golden Wanker, for the "too stoopid to fly" list.
And with that, I'm done with your wankery.
Cheers,
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@ elephantman
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]One case in point is the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Margaret Chiara. She was dismissed as of last Friday. Asked whether she felt that any of her cases were hampered, pressured or politicized by the White House, she has said no....
Kind of beside the point. After she's gone, the new USA can "politicize" any inconventient cases....
... She could not say why she was let go. She had no knowledge that her firing was a political payback for something she did or did not do....
Yeah, who knows why Rove and company might have looked askance at her. If she doesn't know why she got dumped, I'd think that it wasn't for "performance" reasons ... oh, yeah, sorry, forgot that they maladministration had dumped the "performance" excuse. Nevermind.
Cheers,
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I ssssseeeeeeee noooothink!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's our "Elephantman".... ;-)
Cheers,
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Golden Wanker is clueless
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I notice that you do not address the question I had, about ordinary American airline passengers being sued because they report suspicious Muslim behavior....
I did. Twice. Golden Wanker's stoopidity and lack of comprehension is his cross to bear, not mine.
Cheers,
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Elephantman is no lawyer
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The second sorts of crimes he "spots" are the substantive crimes (the only ones) that could be charged in connection with the actual USA firings themselves. Obstruction of justice, etc. And there, Mr. Cohen ignores the obvious; that none of the USAs involved say, or will ever say, apparently, that "Yes, I stopped my investigation because I felt threatened by the White House."
18 US ยง 1503. Influencing or injuring officer or juror
(a) Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or of any court of the United States,...
Success of the endeavour is not required for an OOJ prosecution.
Cheers,
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Free translations ...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]... from Republican into English:
"that disgraceful gubernatorial decision": (n.phr.) A Democratic electoral victory.
No charge.
Cheers,
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Confessions en route
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even if some suspects confess en route, when taping facilities are not available, that's hardly a reason not to tape the interviews when equipment is available. This illogic on the part of the gummint is embarrassing.
Cheers,
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@ bamage
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I concur w/ what I consider to be the underlying premise of GG's post. The only plausible explanation for the resistance to taping the confessions is - to minimize the potential for contradictory evidence when the Feds later lie under oath about their conduct.
I was beaten in a holding cell by some little punk that pretended to be a policeman, with five or six cops staning around. I thought to myself, hope it shows, and got pictures of the damage taken the next morning when I got out. I had it 'explained' to me by my lawyer that it was my word against six cops, and that I needed the "good will" of the city and the prosecution to get off on AR, so I should just let it go (curious twist: I was buddies with the assistant DA, and ran into him at the courthouse, where he read the report to me and I told him that wasn't what happened; he said he had to go by the report).
So colour me surprised that cops do things a bit sub rosa. And lie.
Cheers,
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@ rb
[Read the article: Federal agents seek to conceal their behavior in obtaining confessions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would assume the validity of a confession is a jury question?
It's an issue of fact, and determinations as to the truth of such is for a jury. The jury always gets to decide who to believe.
Cheers,