Letters to the Editor
artforhumans
Published Letters: 10
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Thank you, Glenn
[Read the article: The banality of the surveillance state]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I appreciate deeply your careful consideration of these issues that profoundly affect free thought and free expression for Americans. The connections are not asymmetrical. When our government and leaders fail to protect the arena of ideas, including its basic premises, as outlined in the Law & Constitution, then the effects are articulated throughout the nation's economy, arts and culture in seemingly unexpected ways, that shouldn't really be unexpected at all. The relationship between the Bush Administration and the Echo Chamber and the Congress and Judiciary is only abstract in its first phase. As an artist concerned with the impact of expressive form, I study every day the ways in which the very medium of thought and its forms respond to causal influences. Your outrage and indignation are warranted. On a personal level, you provide a voice that tells the truth in context, on the national stage, which is an indication that hope for improvement is not gone. Historically, the stages of decline that follow this one are ugly, in terms of a society's free speech environment. Raw despotism, military interventions, etc., are always just a few clicks away, unfortunately. We have lots of great examples all around us and from the recent past, with photos, to remind us what that looks like. I pray that our great nation never dreams that dream on a universal scale. Keep up the great work. It matters.
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Congratulations
[Read the article: House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you Glenn for your dedication and remarkable tenacity. It is extremely heartening to see Democratic legislators stand up and courageously defend, with intelligence and fairness, the Constitutional rights of the constituents they were elected to represent. Over the weeks, the efforts you and others expended to keep this issue of warrantless wiretapping and retroactive immunity for telecoms in the news were impressive. If one could take a moment to reflect, however, in the aftermath of a significant, if limited and not certain, legislative victory for civil liberties, it should be to consider how deeply our liberties have been eroded by Bush and the Republican/Special Interests allied with the President's administration.
Best
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wow
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I watched the interview all the way through. Truly heartbreaking. The subtext is that hope is what is at stake for Iraq, and the US has failed to realize its responsibilities, abandoned the goodwill it has earned over a 100 yrs on the world stage, and reinforced the ugly profile entrenched in much of the contingent world since vietnam. The worst part: it was so easily avoidable. All people had to do, and still have to do, is to say no to the bullies of Bushco, the neocons & their super-powerful backers and fight them here. The spiritual maxim: put your own house in order before you go to fix someone else's house. This is it. Fooled again. Time to pick up the pieces & the first step is to hold those responsible (the agents, their supporters, the witnesses who did nothing), essentially, America minus like 4 people, and make them/us accountable. Publically. Appropriately. Expeditiously. Start with Rove. Finish at street level, with everyone who voted for Bush's 2nd term & everyone who didn't take to the streets immediately in the aftermath & put a stop to it. This is America, right?
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A Prayer for America
[Read the article: The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love my country. I also love free speech. Thanks for practicing the latter in service of the former, Glenn.
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MCBUSH ON A NEW GI BILL:
[Read the article: McCain sides with Bush, opposes new GI Bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McBUSH HATES AMERICAN SERVICEMEN & WOMEN & WANTS THEM TO BE STUPID, SO THAT THEY WILL NEVER HAVE ACCESS TO THE SORT OF POWER THAT HE WIELDS NOW AS A WEALTHY PERSON IN THE SENATE. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO SHOULD GO TO COLLEGE IN THE MCBUSH WORLD ARE KIDS OF PEOPLE LIKE MCBUSH.
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Thanks for the update
[Read the article: How telecoms are attempting to buy amnesty from Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your exposure of the dynamics at play in the warrantless wiretap issue & retroactive immunity for telecoms engaged in blatantly criminal behavior is incredibly heartening, Glenn. I appreciate your tenacity on the issue. I continue to contact my congressional representatives to demand action on the corporate illegality and hypocrisy and the complicity of corrupt elected officials. Investigate, Impeach, Imprison!
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coverage of retroactive immunity, etc
[Read the article: George Bush's latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I contributed to the fund. I have written my representatives. I have blogged. This is tantamount to treason in time of war. Our servicemen & women are supposedly promulgating Democracy in the Mideast while our Democracy is being ravaged from within by those we have elected to serve and protect it, at the behest of the Decider, in collusion with the Military/Industrial/Corporate/Banking/Media Complex. It is a disgrace and stain on our nation's history, especially when viewed in context of the abominable actions of the current criminal administration. Big Oil and Bushco must be disenfranchised. The nation must be mobilized to stop these power mad men and women. What does this mean? 90% tax on top 1% until the nation's treasure is retrieved? Abolishing "personhood" for corporations? Defunding Halliburton and Blackwater and all private military intel ops currently supported by tax dollars? Withdrawing all money from banks and Wall Street? Picketing EXxon and all gas stations whose profits fund terrorist regimes? Buying nothing from an INC? I'm starting with closing my Verizon and Sprint accounts in favor of Qwest and commencing to work to unelect anyone who signs this law, including Obama, whom I voted for in the primary. Impeach, imprison, investigate. I want to know exactly what pressure by telecoms/intel agencies caused Congress to cave. These people are war profiteers and traitors.