Letters to the Editor
shanlone
Published Letters: 7
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Learning to Say No! To Say Revolutin now!
[Read the article: Bush's blank check]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What Congress and people like Bush and Hillary have fiorgotten is that they are servants for th people of America, not the Masters of America. We have said as a nation no to moe Iraq spending, but they are not listening, so maybe they should be removed either by peaceful or not so peaceful means from office. Its time for the ordinary people in America to take back our country from th 3% wealtist who are hell bent on its destruction for their own ideological and personal gain. Maybe another revolution should happen in America when we purge ourselves of these people who are fleecing us with their lies and assertions.
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Norman Mailer remembered
[Read the article: Norman Mailer 1923 - 2007]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A great writer. I remember reading the Naked and the Dead in high school literature class in the late 1960's. First I had seen the movie starring a young Frank Sinatra,Earnest Borgnine and Burt Lancaster. A really great movie. I followed Mailer rants and editorials and Articles in the New Yorker for years. He will be greatly missed. A true American hero.
William Scanlon
Associate Professor of English
Guangdong Baiyun University
Guangzhou, China
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Smart Cars are Great
[Read the article: The Smart car is coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Should have had them years ago in America,but those gas greedy hounds of the Big Three auto monopolies lobbied Congress not to allow them in/not to mention the large shareholders of Big Oil like Bush and Cheney. Here in China,Hong Kong and in Taiwan they are best sellers for being roomy and efficent at the same time,plus they are cheaper and hold their value.
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Where does Rain come From?
[Read the article: The evolution of creationism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like to say to Creationist and the children of those who put forth I.D.; "Its because the God is crying". When they ask why is God crying,I also think its great to tell them; mostly likely because of something stupid you did!"
For the rest of us we understand the biologic principles of where rain comes from.
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Define the term Terrorist
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Salon,
China this past two weeks has said that those protesting in Tibet are terrorists,America's homeland security under the disguise of the Patriot Act has spied on evryone, including Catholic Nuns, students and those that speak out against Mr.Bush and his cronies both in the White House and on Capital Hill. Now under the Patriot Act those that read pornography or worse yet send it on the internet are being singled out for domestic terrorism by Homeland Security. The right to free speech including,including having to read what we want, burning files or the flag is now an act of terrorism and treason. America has gone mad. Thats why I choose to live outside of America in a non-extradition country in Asia. My friend Phil Berrigan would be rolling over in his grave. Who know's I may be now on a watch list. So to my fellow Americans at Homeland Security. Watch all you want. Want me, come and find me.
William Scanlon
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Whats Next for TSA-Romove all Metal on Your Body?
[Read the article: Taking stock of the war on terror]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mandi Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.
The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said.
Hamlin said she told the woman she was wearing nipple piercings. The women then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the jewelry, Hamlin said.
She was not allowed to go into a private room but was forced to strip naked behind a curtian with male TSA personnel snickering and making jokes, then forced to use a pair of pliers to painfully remove a nipple piercing. This is ridiculous. Whats next naked flights? I have metal parts in my body from surgeries. Does that mean I cannot fly because they cannot be removed? Our rights are being trampled on in the interest of National Security. This is the administrations answer for the war on Terror. That ordinary people who are not a threat in America are brutalized,humiliated publically and terrorized in America by the TSA(Tránpỏtation Sàety Adminỉstation). Bin Laden hás not bêen caught. We are not evn looking that hard for him anymore. But American's are being terrorized by those Nazis tatics from Homeland Security and the TSA.
They operate more like Hitler's infamous SS than security personnel. Terrorism has become a catch -all virus that has made America Law enforcement mad. We are all now the suspects.At both in America and abroad. We should all protest and refuse to submit to TSA. Maybe if the airlines started losing money from people refusing these tatics things would change, most likely not. All those lazy people on the Welfare roles need a job. So they work for the TSA.
William Scanlon
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
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RE:Next on the Agenda of Homeland Security
[Read the article: So long, Canada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Bush Administration could not care less about Canada or anywhere else for that matter. Its foreign policy and moron diplomacy really sucks. Besides immigration these new set of moronic regulations are meant to stop Americans from buying cheaper perscription medications in Canada or Mexico,thus assisting the Drug Baron Corporations at their price gouging in America. Its one of the reason I live in Vietnam now. You can buy things like Ventolin for asthma for 5 bucks here whereas in America its $75.00.
But I would not surprised if Homeland Security will next require all of us to have a National Idenity Card(with an RF ID so we can be tracked) and permission to reside in different cities. Just two weeks ago a women was forced to remove nipple piercings at the airport(these items are not on the phohibited items list)in public by those morons at TSA.
Our rights are slowly being stripped from us. Maybe its time more of us engage in Domestic Terrorism against the government and take our country back from these neo-nazis's