Letters to the Editor
bignose
Published Letters: 370 Editor's Choice: 22
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After September 11, everything changed
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]We can’t go back to the old way of thinking. We’re living in a different time now. A time when we have to fight to maintain the ideals of freedom and democracy that our founders held dear. And freedom isn’t free. Freedom takes hard work, and hard cash, and hard choices. Choices between appeasing the terrorists, and preserving our democracy. Democracy isn’t about micromanaging the very agencies that are here to protect us. Democracy isn’t about letting people who don’t believe in freedom talk to people who do believe in freedom. We can’t talk to people who don’t believe in freedom. That’s called appeasement. Appeasement makes us unable to see how bad our enemies are. It makes us blind, and it causes warts on the hands. Washington, Jefferson, Adams…They could never have foreseen the circumstances that we now find ourselves in. Quaint ideas about open government, and privacy, and the pursuit of happiness, the idea that people can just run amok, doing and saying and writing whatever they want, that’s anarchy. The founding fathers didn’t intend for that to happen. Terrorists can’t expect to have freedom of speech. Terrorists can’t expect to hide behind the skirts of judges. Terrorists can’t expect the agents of justice to cease pursuit at their front door. Plain and simple.
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Tempus..Baby steps and patience
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The conservative-Democrat cunumdrum is a tough one, but one that is an inevitable result of the 50 state stratagy.
Not that this is a bad thing. In the long run.
Getting people in once-red districts used to voting for Democrats is a big part of the battle, I think. In the coming elections (And especially between cycles) I would hope that Dean is examining these districts, to find suitable democratic primary challengers.
Sorry I got a few of you riled up about my previous post. This one is not snark, though, so have at it.
Also, a request: Can somone out there tell me, or lead me to a site that will explain how to do things like italics, bold, etc..? thanks.
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bystander
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for your
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(How great depends on how well the above came out :))
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Thanks to all...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had noticed the indicators above the body of the message, but was unsure of how to use them, or what they did (As evidenced by what I did above)
Y'all can look forward to exciting new posts in vibrant 3-D from me, in the future...
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Impeachment? I donno...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That would mean a lot of long boring hearings, and indignant posturing by Republicans...
Can't we just give them to the Hauge? Seriously...What would be the procedure for doing that? We wouldn't have any dancing around the meaning of "High Crimes and Misdomeaners". It could be straight up mass murder.
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Adnoto
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just getting back online...Wanted to respond to you.
I see there has been some discussion on impeachment already. Let me start by saying I agree with you in almost every respect, when you wrote:
Why are you looking for "other ways" when we have the means, the procedures and the evidence to do it ourselves? What good are we if we incapable of getting our own house in order? How will we ever deal with these types of issues in the future if we cannot put our house in order now? We are in this position, in large part, because we have avoided doing the correct thing in the past. How many times are we going to let these people get away with this shit before we do something about it? Never? We are incapable? We now need the international criminal court to do the right thing for us? As a nation, are we really that devoid of principles and morals?
I would submit that unless we do it ourselves it will not mean much in the long run.
While we seem to have "the means, the procedures and the evidence to do it ourselves", we (and by we I mean congress) seems to lack the political will to do it. And if it is not done, and done with ferocity, and succeeding thoroughly, it will only end up vindicating Bush.
Maybe our leaders have become devoid of principals and morals. Maybe we do need an outside body to show us how it's done. It is my lack of faith in the current crop of leaders that leads me to suggest what I did. The way I see it, we already had the chance to get our house in order, and we blew it.
Maybe, by joining, and showing faith in, a neutral international system of justice, instead of once again "Going it alone", we can actually raise our stature abroad. Maybe that's a stretch, but I think our future as human beings depends on us moving toward a more international cooperation, in this way and others.
Plus, I would really, really like to see pictures of Bush in chains.
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It's always more fun...In Bed
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]In bed, it's cozy. In bed, it's safe. In bed, you can feel lazy. In bed, secrets are safe, lies are safer. In bed, it's just you two, and no one else matters.
This whole idea, in this post, is also what really got under my skin when the Administration let journalists embed with units in Iraq.
Ever play that game, after take out chinese, where everyone reads their fortune cookies out loud, and then ads the words "In bed"?
Killing is more fun...In bed.
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And McCains presence
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Will be symbolized by one of those skeletons which, when you pull the string, flaps its arms and legs wildly, and lights in the eyes flash on and off.