Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 51 Editor's Choice: 5
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John Dean's speculations...
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I, too, am curious about the notions Dean put forward re: ambiguities concerning future charges for the telcoms. I'm not an attorney, but it seems that if they can get a pass on civil litigation because of this boneheaded business that The Village Idiot TOLD them warrantless domestic spying was just fine, couldn't the same meme be tossed around if criminal liability were tackled. (Not that it will be.)
As always, well turned article, Mr. G.
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Is it Nader or Fraud?
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Well, I hate to break it to you, but you just might not have any more choices if McCain gets elected. The Republicans have already stolen two presidential elections, and God only knows how many congressional elections. They've saddled us with unverifiable, no receipt black box voting machines. They've illegally suppressed the Democratic vote in every way they can. They've attempted to criminalize being a Democrat, with blatantly political prosecutions.
And they've gotten away with it, carte blanche, not in small part due to people like you, who can't see the forest for the trees.
-- Renegade Iconoclast"
Is it the assholes who voted for Nader or is it Karl Rove and RNC fraud that gave the WH to Cheney/Bush? It may be annoying that people stuff "protest" votes into the box but it's juvenile to avoid the realities that you yourself detail. Rove has been working on engineering rope-a-vote by computer processing for over thirty years. Admittedly, it wasn't his only angle, vote caging and suppression of every stripe was employed. These elections are his masterworks, though. The laurels don't go to the foolish people throwing tantrums.
(In advance of the "Oh it's just like the bogus WTC theories to buy this..." stuff that inevitably crops up when I mention the obvious; cheats CHEAT. If there is any chance in hell that a crooked player can put his thumb on the scales, he WILL. A cheat leaves NOTHING to "chance" or fairplay.)
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Hold on a minute
[Read the article: The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow's new show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG says
"Ever since MSNBC's extremely suspect and viewpoint-based cancellation of Phil Donohue's Show in the run-up to the Iraq War,..."
Keith Olbermann says the show was killed because Donahue had a live audience. He even insisted he wasn't kidding.