Letters to the Editor
Bill Owen
Published Letters: 509 Editor's Choice: 6
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Descent into fascism
[Read the article: The company we keep]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The descent into fascism, or authoritarianism, in America -- is pretty much undeniable. This march, and that is what it is, is bipartisan, and transcends all of your institutions. The Supreme Court is on board, the Congress, the Senate, State, the media, and of course the legions of FBI's, CIA's, NSA's, DEA's, and now Homeland security -- they all applaud and enable any new power, or restriction on liberty and free speech.
Michael Reagan, the evil son of an idiot president is now calling for the assassination his enemies and for the murder by grenade of Muslim babies. Has he been arrested? No. Has he been fired? No. Censured? Casitgated? By whom? There is no one left to speak anymore, no one but Glenn and a few others.
What's going on? That's a good question. Was 911 the chicken or the egg? Actually it's been going on for a long time. Look at all the cop shows, and the many movies about the lone lawman who must fight, not only the "criminals" but the liberal institutions that protect them. Freedom has been the enemy of the elites, the autocrats, and the oligarchy in America for a long time.
Why are they doing this? Power. Money. The old reasons. Every day there is more for them, and less for us. "They" know that it's getting so bad, that someday, maybe soon, the people will wake up, the revolution will come, and the plutocrats will be dragged from their limousines by the starving masses. To prevent this they need to shut it down before it happens. They need to know who the leaders are, and what they are planning. They are making lists and checking them twice; and they will not be nice.
BTW Glenn, a small correction, as of 96, the KGB was no longer in operation, having been replaced by the FSB. That amalgamation of the various "security" agencies predated what happened in America. In fact it was a model for what has happened in America.
"The Federal Security Service (FSB - Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, previously known as Federal Counterintelligence Service - FSK) is the most powerful of the successors to the KGB. In the years since the fall of the Soviet Union, the FSB slowly took on the responsibilities of a number of agencies. Most recently, it absorbed FAPSI, the Russian equivalent of the United States' National Security Agency." http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/russia/fsb.htm
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Micheal Reagan, the diseased face of the new order
[Read the article: The company we keep]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This video showcases the sickness and the utter moral degradation of the new order in America. Reagan wants to put hand grenades up the "butts" of Arab babies and "light it", and he wants to kill their mothers too. Scum like him are proof there is no Al Qaida, because if there was, he would be dead.
This is the preemption policy of the bushites taken to its logical conclusion.
"What's wrong will killing the mothers and the babies?" Good question Micheal. Good question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntz7SWm-xWo
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@ Pi Or like Sweden for that matter
[Read the article: The company we keep]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who the hell cares what Sweden does? Two wrongs don't make a right. How hard is that for you and yours to understand?
The right does this all the time, Clinton did this, Clinton did that. These are all separate cases. Are you deliberately trying to muddy the waters, or are you really that illogical?
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@ adnoto, buying ads vs direct action
[Read the article: The company we keep]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are correct. Buying ads is not going to change anything. They plan for that, they don't care about that, in fact they like it, it keeps the peasants busy attacking straw men. Working against a particular collaborators reelection is similarly useless, or almost so. People who promote the agenda of the oligarchs know full well that they will be taken care of, so they don't really care if they are reelected. When was the last time you saw Bill Frist bumming quarters on Main Street?
As for direct action, it's a good idea, in fact it is the best idea, but you are right, there seems to be no upper limit on the outrage scale, 4000 dead soldiers, sad but acceptable. 1.2 million dead Iraqis... there are dead Iraqis? Who knew?
There are other factors that mitigate against direct action, such as learned helplessness. I get that all the time. "Why do you bother, there's nothing you can do?" But I think the biggest factor is fear, this is why most of the people who do participate in direct actions are young, they don't have kids, they work at McJobs, and have little to lose. Most people who read the news enough to get worked up over (pick your issue) also know that were they to demonstrate, or march, or sit down, they may/will be arrested, there names will go on a list, their photos and videos into a database, and their comfortable lives could be disrupted or destroyed.
There is one "outrage" that may get Americans into the streets and that is the price of gas. Ironically, the high price of gas will, in the end, turn out to be one of the best things ever to happen to the environment -- and therefore America.
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This is not a new idea
[Read the article: And Obama's veep is ... a Republican?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A democrat running with with a republican Veep is not a new idea. Gore did in 2000.
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@ notorbitboy, innocent until PROVEN guilty
[Read the article: Targeting Steny Hoyer for his contempt for the rule of law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am glad that you used the word "convictions". Until such time as someone in America has been convicted in a court of law, they are innocent.
Why would the Democrats, or anyone else take action against someone who is innocent? I guess you are one of those authoritarian personalities who believes that if someone is merely charged, they must be guilty.