Letters to the Editor
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@ FauxName
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the risk of leading a thread that's already been hijhacked (but not until after it's done its work, thank goodness) furthen down into the mire, I'll disassemble the brave FauxName's rantings:
Tyrants and dictators are sort of as bad as the entirety of American history but that's ok because we get to wear their t-shirts and throws rocks through the windows at Starbucks.
Can you say "straw man"? Good sock-puppet; I knew you could.
You need not Godwin everything. You need only point to the Heroes of the Left and the mucked up countries they own and operate.
The only one mentioning "Heroes of the Left" here is you.
... Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Columbia and Cuba are either at or near or heading toward the bottom of economic development in the continent....
Balderdash. Try Haiti, Surinam, Guatemala, your Reagan favourites Nicaragua and El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, etc.
You really need to edjoomakate yourself. Try reading Stephen Kinzer's book "Overthrow" for starters.... More on this later.
... South Africa has negative population and economic growth now and yet its rulers hold up Zimbabwe, Burma, North Korea, Syria and Iran as their models and friendly partner states....
More "straw man" and garbage.
... I don't know if you read the newspapers much but ZA, Syria, and Zimbabwe are not what I would call rule-of-law kinds of places....
In this, they're hardly alone.
... Well sort of they are, as long as the law is the law of the leader, whatever he happens to decree....
Oh, you mean like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and most of the Gulf states? Or like your pet project Chile during the Pinochet regime?
... And while I suppose it's convenient foil for you tapping away at Salon.con to openly cheer the sacrifices those miserables have made in order to, what? ...
If what we're saying is worthless (although no one here brought these issues up; no, that would be you, Mr. "Red Herring"), then please find other more productive pastures to spew your effluviu... -- umm, sorry, "wisdom" -- in. Please. Now.
... Score rhetorical points against the US? I wonder if my leftist well wishers would entertain seriously the notion that those places are horrible....
Ahhh, "moral relativism" in action. Nice to see that amongst the stalwarts of the right.
... Truly horrible to live in. At least from the reference point of the people tapping away at Salon.com.
No. We're fortunate here. Fortunate in geography and circumstance. Sic transit gloria mundi, as you (or your children) will discover. That being said, there's plenty of hell-holes all over the world, and plenty of places of decency. The Spearmans r on the correlation of that to the letters "U.S. of Aye" is close to 0.
... I'll give you a personal anecdote. A few years ago in West Africa a European company was installing a cheap labor textile plant. This would require about 2000 people initially. People who at that time were either farmers or small merchants or did whatever they could to eek [sic] out. At one point the usual suspects from the western NGO's swooped in to protest and 'educate' the locals about the evils of globalization. About how evil it was to work for 85 cents a day at a sewing machine. I can't remember anyone who listened to them because it represented for many of them, the first time in their lives they had a little money in their hands. They could buy things instead of slaving in the bush all day with coffee plants and such. So while it's a noble posture to stand on your box and scream about how the west is evil and there's no difference between the US and the Heart of Darkness it would behoove some of you to actually experience that.
Ahhh, proof by personal anecdote (with a gratuitous "straw man" tossed in). I've been more places than you, and I have yet to see that sub-minimum-wage labour for foreign corporations does a damn thing for anyone outside of Nike/CK/DKI/MultinationalsInc. And that includes the U.S. Problems is the poor parts of the world aren't that they don't have the capitalist "freedom" to work for multinationals that don't give them squat in return and treat them like dirt. Capitalism is not a river that floats all boats. Never has been, never will be.
Cheers,
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Oh, Jeeeezzzzz.....
[Read the article: All you need to know about the Beltway journalist mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... so to speak. "Jake"'s moved over to infest this place now with more O/T persiflage (and even preachin') to augment Shooter's and FauxName's efforts. And multiple (and repetitive) posts before a single response is even recorded.
Ignore his crap. And Glenn, if there's anything sufficiently vacuous and disruptive to consider banning, "Jake" is right there at ground zero.
Cheers,
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@ Desert Son
[Read the article: All you need to know about the Beltway journalist mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the reply. Also, I wanted to join Wabanatta_3 and say thank you for serving.
Rob: Go back in the archives at thinkprogress.org and you'll see "Jake"'s handiwork. He's a RNC-TP-spewer/troll, worse than even "Shooter" or "FauxName" (and just see above for what he's done already). He's metastasized and infected Glenn's blog now. There's some doubt as to any of his claims. Please ignore (I know that sounds hypocritical coming from me, but he's not even worth the bother of addressing....)
Cheers,
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"Jake" is a dishonest sack-o-sh*te
[Read the article: All you need to know about the Beltway journalist mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a registered Independent.
Bullcrap. Ignore the RNC troll. Just check the thinkprogress.org archives where he parrots the RNC line in literally hundreds of posts, for an idea of what kind of "independent" he is.
Final warning. IGNORE HIM!
Cheers,
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@ L.W.M.
[Read the article: All you need to know about the Beltway journalist mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jake007 is a Think Progress troll. I knew I'd seen that nick before. Can I play with him a bit before I chew him up? Please?
Just point out what a dishonest and fraudulent tool he is, and ridicule him. Attempts at "substantive" conversation are pointless and only encourage him. There's plenty of evidence to back that up over at TP.
Once everyone figures it out and just heaps calumny and scorn on him, he'll put everyone on his "ignore" list, and we'll all be happier.
Cheers,