Letters to the Editor
DQuintanaNY
Published Letters: 422 Editor's Choice: 22
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TSA= Assholes with too much authority
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've mentioned this many times, but for the sake of this article, I'll throw in my $0.02 again.
TSA is yet another example of bloated bureaucracy which hands its enforcers- I'm sorry, "agents"- too much power in the course of their jobs. EVERY SINGLE time I fly I feel like I have to go through some Orwellian/Nazi humiliation to give me the illusion of safety. It's why I absolutely loathe flying in the US. It's not the traveling itself, it's not getting to the plane, it's not the crowded planes, or the overpriced food at the airport- it's the TSA.
Why? Nearly every single agent I've had the displeasure of encountering has a chip on their shoulder the size of Nebraska. Not only that, they treat everyone, and I mean everyone, as if they're Osama himself. They also have the whiff of people who were picked on in elementary school who, at long last, are given outsized authority and are relishing every second.
I want statistics as to how much their actions have ACTUALLY made us safer. How many potential terrorists have they really caught at screening? The fucking shoe bomber got on the plane before anyone even noticed something was up!
The TSA is just another example of how much liberty and freedom the sheeple of America are willing to throw into the garbage for the illusion- the fiction- of security.
The full body scanners are the most outrageous example of this. When will our leaders, and the paranoid, pathetic citizens of this country, finally stand up and put the brakes on this out of control monster?
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When did Rupert Murdoch buy The New Yorker?
[Read the article: The Obama cover kerfuffle]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is racist bullshit that The New Yorker is trying to pass off as half assed satire.
As satire it fails. As political commentary it fails.
I'm glad I don't subscribe to this magazine. If I did, I'd be canceling my subscription this very minute. For those of you who do subscribe, I urge you to do the same.
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Let. It. Go.
[Read the article: Clinton die-hards want floor vote at convention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please.
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I agree
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The outrage factor in politics is absurd. Most importantly, it distracts us from the important issues at hand- things that rightfully outrage the American public- a never ending quagmire of a war, a tanking economy, and administrative policies that shred our rights and liberties.
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The Photos
[Read the article: The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of all these grinning criminal scumbags signing their own "Get Out of Jail Free" card are revolting beyond belief.
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When the Chickenhawks come home to roost
[Read the article: Tom Friedman doesn't understand why America is unpopular in the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Friedman represents the adolescent, knee jerk, warmongering mindset that has pervaded this administration and its policies for the past seven years. It is not the rest of the world’s opinion of us that is “knee jerk”, rather it is an expected response to a nation which has been grossly reckless and irresponsible.
I wonder what “moral backbone” this country has when we have caused the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands, as well as debased and defiled our ideals and laws by detaining and torturing people.
As for the video- I can’t recall any single instance in our media, or in our society, where terrorism was treated or addressed with a, “that’s okay” attitude. After that airheaded statement, I expected Friedman to trot out the right wing “fact” that Clinton was handed bin Laden on a silver platter and declined to take him.
As far as “taking out a big stick and burst(ing) that bubble” – this is exactly the response that has gotten us into all of this trouble. I love how these chickenhawks pull out folksy phrases to justify attacking a sovereign nation and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
The more he talks about “bubbles” and less about concrete facts, nations, and international players, the more it seems that he is pulling this out of his ass and doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. To distract from that we get a meandering locution about sticks and bubbles, but no facts and no concrete justifications.
Friedman’s mindset, which is shared by all of the top members of the Bush administration, is immoral to the core and sociopathic. Anyone who would gleefully advocate the killing of thousands and the destruction of a nation, and then fabricate the justification on a pack of lies, is so thoroughly a revolting excuse for a human being that we should pay no credence to anything they say. That goes for Friedman, Bush, Cheney, McCain, and anyone else who thinks massacring civilians is a good way to present ourselves to the world.
I’ve got something Friedman can suck on.
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scotty06
[Read the article: Tom Friedman doesn't understand why America is unpopular in the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No one here is saying that the world would be better off without the US. Nor is anyone denying that other nations act in questionable ways.
What people are saying, is that the US has been acting in violation of the law, and has also been demolishing our founding ideology to do so.
Pointing this out in order to change it does not mean that people are advocating that the US disappear. But sweeping everything under the rug, or justifying our atrocities by pointing out that others do worse helps nothing- in fact it degrades us further.