Letters to the Editor
Allene Swienckowski
Published Letters: 191 Editor's Choice: 10
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The Issue of Democratic Malaise
[Read the article: Battling Democrats' indifference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I used to think like Mr. Greenwald...that Democrats felt intimated by the neo-con machine and feared being called "supporters of terrorists." But then a dissfernet song began to play in the fabric of my background...Just how much malfeasance has occurred in the life of every politician? What types of unusual sexual peccadillos might be trotted across the pages of the so-called liberal press, all under the guise of information that should be disseminated for the public good? The fact is, each and every person over the age of twenty-one has something in our lives that we are ashamed of, some foible or family member that leads a questionable lifestyle. And my God, can anyone deny that such revelations surely end careers?
The well oiled Republican machine is very aware of the damage that scandal can do to a political career. Look at what they did to Bill Clinton. Yet, the Democrats have individually and severally committed the same crime - none of them, male of female, have the balls to stand up anf flings the Republican lies back in their face. It has something to do with being too well educated not to engage in a street fight. And with such sensibilities, the democrats are losing their very souls.
I tried during the Kerry campaign to reach key democrats, to tell them to simply speak to the plain people, people just like me, speak the truth and not to shrink from the unfounded lies that flow like water from the Republican camp. My letters, to my knowledge went unread and yet I was expressing exactly "how" the democrats needed to proceed to try and gain back voters and dignity.
The democrats in office, each and everyone live at the top of American economic society. To be sure, each and every democrat, just like each and every Republican, will not do anything to jeopardize that lifestyle. We have all become slaves to what we consider the "good life" and yet what we are sacrificing everyday by embracing the lies and the subterfuge from the powers that be is just that...we are each living the life of an indentured servant, slaves to an ideology that worships power and covets greed.
To loosely quote from Farenheit 451 "keep them entertained, keep them so busy that they don't have time to think and no time to question..." And that my friends, is exactly where we find ourselves today.
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The Blind Leading the Incompetent
[Read the article: House majority leader: Saddam had WMD and a supporting role in 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Each senator, whether Republican or Dem,ocrat who voted for the President's Detainee Bill should all hang their heads in shame. Where will the madness end? And how many more American lives will be lost due to the incompetence of man who never had the credentials (votes) or the intelligence to govern a first world nation?
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Democrats and the Election
[Read the article: A Democrat explains his detainee vote: I just follow McCain's lead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]President Carter's son, Jack Carter, has the right idea about running for office as a Democrat. He tells his audiences that "I'm a democrat and I'm for the working man while the republicans are not."
If only the well-heeled, educated Democrats would remember that it was the educated middle-class and the working poor that got them into office time and time again. But democrats today have forgotten their roots and are just as separated from the working classes as are the well-heeled, close-minded Republicans.
The twelve democrats who voted for the President's habeas corpus bill need to hang their heads in shame and do the country a favor, they should each resign and admit that they not only failed the American people but they betrayed the Constitution. Of course such an admission will never be forthcoming from the twelve. Funny, isn't that the number of jurors in a jury trial? But I digress, soon the right to habeas corpus for American citizens will soon disintegrate as well and just as life unfolds in many foreign domains American citizens will disappear off of streets and out of their homes in the night because due process is no longer a concern in the American justice system. They'll be no need for a justice system - no Supreme Court, no courts or judges or lawyers, just the President and his Secretary of Defense. Makes you feel kind of warm and fuzzy all over doesn't it?
What a mess!
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Writer's Jitters
[Read the article: Kirkus shrugged]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A personal note to the author: You made an impact on several people who actually enjoyed reading your book. Never forget those people rather than fixate on the two reviewers who didn't identify themselves. You have an audience...seek it and maybe you'll, in the process, breathe life and interest into your book that consumed four years of your life.
Think of this as an unlikely scenario: I lost my book, three actually, to a hard drive crash. How stupid was it of me not to back up five years worth of work? There's only one answer: it was the ultimate stupidity. So, back to the salt mines I go and hopefully I'll resurrect the dead. And hopefully, you won't have to write me a note to keep me on the even keel, that is, once my book is reviewed.