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"Talk about something scary. I glanced at the original article and 3 or 4 of the blogs. If this writer and the bloggers who write blogs by the hundreds represent the left in this country we have much of be afraid of. The far radial left which make up these stories and the bloggers appear they would rather take over and destroy the United States more than anything else. Very, Very Scary."

All the below comments come from a registered Independent, neither Democrat nor Republican:

The far radial left? Maybe, in your haste to post nothing but weirdly vitrolic rants about "The Left" all over Salon's pages (nice history of postings there - no one can say you aren't firm in your beliefs) you've lost sight of clear communication.

In any event, it's only ignorance I fear - and I fear your ignorance. Only someone utterly committed to an ideology without regard for its abuses and inconsistencies would comment this way on what is, to a cool and collected mind, a recounting of actual events sworn to under penalty of perjury. While you may take issue with the writer's tone, facts are facts - and only a zealot ignores cold facts that contradict their own opinion.

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"Patrick Henry said it best: Give me liberty, or give me Death."

Actually, Patrick Henry didn't say it best, because Patrick Henry arguably didn't say it.

Mr. William Wirt, who published Henry's speech 18 years after the fact, attributed the quote to Henry and his source for it was not Henry, or Henry's writings, but a Judge who orally recounted his memories of the speech to Wirt.

Henry's devotion to the principle of liberty has been questioned by some scholars who note that, despite the stirring words, Henry retained his slaves following the revolution. What they don't acknowledge, or consider (I say, tongue half in cheek) is that Henry/Wirt says "Give ME liberty," which, like most political speech/acts, centers entirely around the self.

QUOTE: "I'm not sure THE DARK KNIGHT is a bad movie, but it certainly feels like a racist movie, doesn't it? African-American characters in this film fall into three categories: Gangsta thugs, buzzard bait, and Morgan Freeman. (I know, I know: Welcome to Hollywood.) Yet in the comics, Harvey Dent is an African-American politician with a distinct if unintentional resemblance to Barack Obama -- both conceal (or at least Obama seems to conceal) barely suppressed rage beneath superficial placidity. (And Obama's most fervent netroots supporters have already hauled out the "Two-Face" label over the FISA bill.) In any case, it's no surprise that Hollywood has run screaming from yet another three-dimensional African-American character, and although Aaron Eckhardt is good in the part (even better, I'd say, than Heath Ledger's Joker), I can think of half a dozen African-American actors who could have handled the part just as well without compromising the character."

Timothyhulsey, you are clearly incorrect on one point, and arguably bizarre on another.

First, 'in the comics' Harvey Dent is decidedly NOT African-American. He is Caucasian, and always has been. He has been portrayed on film as African-American once - in Burton's original Batman - by Billy Dee Williams.

Thus, 80% of your weird diatribe means nothing. More interesting is your implied (wrongful) argument that because Dent is a black man in comics, he should be played by a black man in the film. Since Dent is clearly white in the comics, doesn't that automatically mean, according to your logic, that a white man should play him? And isn't that focus on skin color over ability just a little bit....racist?

As for your bizarre Dent/Obama comparisons, the less said the better. I am no "Obamaniac," and remain a committed independent, so I have no partisan motivation when I say that your reference to the "barely suppressed rage beneath superficial placidity" is ludicrious and baffling.

These absurdities have been tolerated for too long.

If you are a conservative/libertarian/Republican who supported the last administration, but are now screaming and stomping your feet over Obama's imaginary socialist agenda then you are a hypocrite. You are a hypocrite for allowing eight unchecked years of Constitutional abuse. You are a hypocrite for not speaking out when the President demanded 'loyalty oaths' from all attendants to his speeches. You are a hypocrite for not demanding accountability when Reagan's anti-torture legislation was shredded under the Bush/Cheney aegis. You are a hypocrite for watching as the very banks that the federal government has attempted to save were abused and looted by the proponents of 'unfettered Capitalism,' thus necessitating the very bind we are in now. And foremost, you are a hypocrite for demanding fealty to President Bush in all cases and at all times when that stance was politically attractive to you.

You have no authority, moral or otherwise, to wail about dangers to the Constitution or to the country when you have stood by, slack-jawed, self-absorbed and uncaring as all of this occured. All the self-satisfying anger in the world cannot, and will not, dilute these facts.

You are a farmer who has willingly let the fox steal both your and your neighbors chickens for eight years and has now decided to blame the neighbor for his decision to build a fence around both your properties.

You are irresponsible. You are anti-logical. You are filled with hatred and invective and worst of all bone-deep hypocrisy. And you know it.