Letters to the Editor
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Nazi Analogies Are Very Apt
It's always the Christians who stand up huh? Except when they are sitting down. Don't forget that that most ardent of Conservative Christians, The Pope let the Holocaust happen and didn't make a sound. Disgraceful.
Besides, The parallels aren't based on content, they are based on the distortion and manipulation of existing power structures that the Nazis used to seize and maintain control of society...exactly like "Justice" Moore and Bush and Cheney...ad infinitum are seemingly attempting to do.
But that wasn't the point for you, was it Geno? You just wanted to put the word "Liberal" out there with "Nazi" and try to make a connection.
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Pretending the evidence isn't there
I'm absolutely staggered that there can be people who look the evidence right in the face and say, "Oh, you silly ninnies, you're blowing things way out of proportion."
They are DOING IT, people. Right under your noses!
Yes, there are fundies with fascist tendencies in every society and in every religion.
The big difference in your country right now is that THEY'VE GOT CONTROL OF YOUR GOVERNMENT.
That's when it becomes an issue. That's when you stop saying, "It can't happen here."
It. Is. Happening. There.
Do something about it.
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dealt with these loons in 1990
not the southern type but some heavy on the bible folks attempted to take over the cirriculm guidance of my high school in grayslake, ill. basically since everyone else is busy working like 50-60 hours per week and didnt give a damn about school board procedings, these folks began to heavily campaign to change the school cirriculm to reflect what they were calling, the community standard, which of course the implication was that they reflected the "true" feelings of the community, which was hilariously largely catholic/ secular. so this fight went on for some time and eventually the towns people woke up when their children started to organize and contacted the aclu to get involved as a consultant. what was missing from this all was that the superitendent was in fact in league with the christian activists and was giving them greater access to the school board etc. what was to be changed? of course the science, history and english departments etc. in order to reflect a more christian world view, or something, in fact they had ordering book catalogs freshly printed from bob jones university.... what is funny is that these activists only represented about ten students out of 1,000... evenutally cooler heads prevailed, the super was fired and the business of education was back on track. I have always been suspicious of these types, essentially anyone who refuses to compromise and seeks dominion in the name of any religon is scary to me and also was scary to the founding fathers of this sad sack democratic experiment. in fact they wrote about this ad nauseum, one can read their opinions in the federalist papers and in countless other essays etc. The point is that why should ordinary people have to become activists in order to maintain the status quo with regards to the upholding of the seperation of church and state and any other clause in the constitution and its amendments? unfortunately complacency will always lead to a brain drain that will lead to the ability of activists of whatever ilk to insert whatever adgenda they wish into the public discourse. Lets just say that I dont think that Martin Luther, of germany, sought the reformation so that there could be another corrupt theocracy ruling the individual... the other problem is that literally the national identity is one of nihlistic hedonia, even with these "christians" who seek to control the populace with their interpretation of the bible. it feels really really good to belong and to have a seemingly large enemy that "together we can crush," and yet many of these same types believe in nothing. To inspire such mindlessness for the sake of "dominance" seems to me to be against the teachings of christ...
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Juan Torres.....
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
That would be the first line of the first amendment to the Constition of the United States. So, there's the concept you say doesn't exist in the Constitution.
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For Juan Torres
I've heard this lame line of argument more times than you can imagine.
Just because the actual words "Seperation of Church and State" do not appear in Amendment One of the U.S. Constitution does not invalidate the concept, or make it "unConstitutional" as you so erroneously claim.
"Seperation of Church and State" is an elegant summing up of a rather unweildy clause:
"Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. "
Are you always such a literalist? Go buy a clue already.
Why you "cons" and your radical fellow travellers always have to dispute settled law and undermine our most basic institutions with their radicalism?
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Alarmist Or Not...
...if these groups of fundolites influence our present congressmen and women, then I applaud Michelle Goldberg for writing this book.
So much deceitfulness goes on in the halls of Congress, either behind closed doors or in plain view, in order to subvert the values of the opposition. I want books describing how the leadership of the ruling party brings in these wack-o-nuts to bolster support concerning issues they both agree on. It helps me ponder what exactly do our legislators give these nutjobs in return.
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Run for the hill - the end times are here - REALLY
Is this just a leftist way of saying the end times are here? You know it's been a bad month. Gas going up and all. Let's see now, we're about to drop nukes on Iran, we're just about enemies with every rational society in the world, New Orleans is still languishing in bureaucratic confusion, Cheney blasts Russia so we're back in a Cold War, the NSA is monitoring this message as well as keeping tabs on whether or not I'm buying plaque fighting toothpaste, the ABC movie (of the year?) informed us that the
Avian Flu is going to be really depressing when it kills over 30 million people, Chris unexpectedly was dropped from Idol, the market soared to a recent high only to fall again, the Fed looks like it's going to raise rates yet again, Lou Dobbs is telling us the Feds are informing the Mexican government about our ad hoc border patrols, Florida's burning up, people are trying to get Jeb Bush to run, keeping the Bush dynasty alive, Hillary Clinton praises GW's personality, calling him "good company", the CIA is going to be run by a military dude, Tom Cruise has lost his appeal and
now this - the news about a Christian fascist state.
How much more can we handle? Does this mean I can't pray anymore because the wrong kind of people are praying? What do I turn to? 80% vodka? Prozac? Nihilism? Automatic weapons? Video games? Yes there are many distractions, but none of them, unfortunately, are strong enough to make us forget that no matter what your political beliefs the commercial viability of hyperdramaitization still works. Thank God something's going right.