Letters to the Editor
NotOrbitBoy
Published Letters: 499 Editor's Choice: 5
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Glenn's on a Slippery Slope
[Read the article: What does Sarah Palin have to hide in her Yahoo e-mails?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"As despicable as I personally find the Palin hacking to be, it pales in comparison to the Bush crimes, because when someone runs for President or Vice President, they voluntarily cede vast amounts of their personal privacy" - Glenn Greenwald
I have previously tried to address the implications of the Bush crimes, but was told that I shouldn't justify law breaking. But since Glenn is now comparing the crimes, let me try this;
1) The person(s) who posted Palin's emails broke the law.
2) Bush broke the law.
Palin has had her private information made available to the general public. The emails were posted on publicly available web sites. She was harmed.
Glenn, you have offered stories and lists of people who were illegally surveilled.
Can you demonstrate how they were harmed?
Can you provide a motive for the government to obtain this information, one that is backed up with evidence showing how the information was used?
How do you compare illegally obtained private information held by the NSA or FBI, with private information posted on public web sites?
Much of the salonista faithful seems to believe that the government is obtaining this information illegally (agreed, to a point), and using it in a harmful manner against innocent citizens (disagree).
As an added note, your link under the text "available evidence strongly suggests" provides a description of internet pranksters, it does not provide evidence as to who hacked Palin's email account.
Maybe waxman or conyers can conduct a thorough investigation, and get to the bottom of this. Save our democracy.
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@zenwick, @bamage
[Read the article: What does Sarah Palin have to hide in her Yahoo e-mails?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Zenwick - What innocent US citizen was illegally surveilled, and sent to Gauntanamo or Damascus? Can you provide any evidence to this claim, or did it fall down the rabbit hole?
Bamage - I asked 3 specific questions, you answered none of them. I guess I am a nitwit to expect an answer from this audience.
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@Carl Nyberg - Speaking of Faith
[Read the article: What does Sarah Palin have to hide in her Yahoo e-mails?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Faith - a belief held in the absence of proof.
Carl, isn't it the case that those acting on faith are the ones that believe the government is using the information it collects to harm innocent citizens?
Where is the proof that the NSA or the FBI has used this information to harm somebody?
Try proving a motive behind the government's actions as anything other than attempting to protect us.
When you can do that, I will believe that we live in the dark empire described by your salonista brethren.
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A Salonoid Argument I am Familiar With
[Read the article: What does Sarah Palin have to hide in her Yahoo e-mails?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I can't comment on that quote without reminding you that you are too stupid to breathe in order for you to have posted that." - Kitt.
This is an example whereby Kitt offers reminders to a non-breathing person. I didn't know you could remember things when you are dead. Clearly, Kitt has faith.
Kitt's non-sensical post is the type of salonista rant that I am familiar with. At least good celery is poetic about it.
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Palin Envy
[Read the article: Sarah Palin's dead lake]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]salon's got it.
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Good Case for Tort Reform
[Read the article: Inside the vaccine-and-autism scare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dubious "science", emotional appeals targeting worried parents, and greedy personal injury attorneys feeding at the trough.
Gee, where have we heard this story before?
We need tort reform. That won't happen while the trial lawyers continue to pay the democrats to do their bidding.
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An Open Letter . . . from a Closed Mind
[Read the article: An open letter to independent and undecided voters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's what gary kamiya has to offer.
Gary thinks victory in Iraq is a fantasy. Dumb harry reid thinks (thought?) the same thing. . . . despite the fact that;
1. The left said Iraq wouldn't hold elections (they did)
2. The left said Iraq wouldn't be able to form a constitution (they formed a constitution)
3. The left said the surge wouldn't work, they now say it hasn't worked, they smeared Gen. Patreus, . . . they were wrong, obama agrees.
gary's simplistic, narrow view, makes sense, if your mind is closed. If you can't see.
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More Palin Envy
[Read the article: Mean girl]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember the argument that McCain showed a clear lack of decision making ability by selecting Palin as his VP candidate?
I assume the editorial staff at Salon thinks otherwise. What else would they write about had McCain not picked her?
1) Maybe Charlie Rangel's IRS problems? . . . did you see that he paid his back taxes, less the fines and interest that ordinary Americans would have pay in similar circumstances? If Charlie can't understand the tax code, why is he given the job of writing it? Is that an example of Pelosi acting as an effective manager? Give the job to the crook?
2) Maybe Salon could write about Biden's opinion regarding obama's recent ads attacking McCain. Biden said they are terrible.
3) Maybe Salon could write about Hillary's recent comments about Iran. She sounds tougher than Winston Curchill. Let the bombing begin.
Nah, stick with Sarah Palin. I don't expect honesty from Salon, and I'm happy to see these attacks working against your end goal.
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Why? . . . Glenn, you answered the question yourself
[Read the article: Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the "Homeland"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"After Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration began openly agitating for what would be, in essence, a complete elimination of the key prohibitions of the Posse Comitatus Act in order to allow the President to deploy U.S. military forces inside the U.S. basically at will" - Glenn Greenwald
If we want the federal government to respond quickly to natural disasters or acts of terrorism, we need some sort of an action plan in place. A starting point, from which to deal with the future problem.
Bush has chosen to train and deploy the military to handle this task.
If you have a better means to deal with such a scenario (hurricane or terrorist act wipes out a city), let's hear your plan.
Or, you could simply wait for it to happen, and bitch about it afterwards.