Letters to the Editor
Orville H. Larson
Published Letters: 179
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All the best to Bob Barr, Larry Hunter, and others who favor freedom
[Read the article: Bob Barr endorses Accountability Now/Strange Bedfellows coalition]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bob Barr has endorsed the Accountability Now/Strange Bedfellows effort, and that's commendable. When he was in Congress, Barr was no Ron Paul. Nevertheless, his concern for civil liberties puts him in a class apart from the monopoly candidates, Obama and Mad Bomber McInsane. (Neither Obama nor McInsane
has endorsed Accountability Now/Strange Bedfellows, nor will they. They've both voted to piss on the Bill of Rights.) I'm happy to vote for Barr in November.
My compliments to Larry Hunter. He's a conventional conservative who's so repulsed by the Liar-in-Chief's lawlessness at home and abroad, that he's voting for the opposition.
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The D. C. Beltway shithole
[Read the article: Political harmony v. the rule of law: an easy choice for the political establishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course the D.C. Beltway class is corrupt. The Beltway is a closed, insulated world where everybody's on the make, and everybody's on the take.
Harold Ford and Cass Sunstein are horse's asses, what with their look-the-other-way tolerance for high-level criminality. (Sunstein doesn't want the Liar-in-Chief's crew brought to book. No doubt Sunstein hopes that the D.C. Establishment will show the same
gracious understanding toward President Obama's criminality, if it came to that.)
Back in 1992, Richard Cohen of the Washington Post was elated that his fellow Safeway supermarket denizen Casper Weinberger was pardoned by Bush the Elder. Cohen knew that Weinberger was an honest man. How? Well, Weinberger PUSHED HIS OWN SHOPPING CART. As we all know, that's a mark of supreme character. No sense making a man like that stand trial for perjury, now, is there?
The D.C. Establishment: All for one, and one for all!
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The American and Iranian peoples want peace
[Read the article: Rendering public opinion irrelevant ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's no doubt that the antiwar views of many Americans (including Jews) are ignored by the MSM in general, and the D.C. press in particular. The MSM essentially represents government--and the Israel Lobby--to the American people.
America's mindless support for Israel and its criminality has damaged, and will continue to damage, America's standing in the MIddle East and, indeed, the whole world. There's no reason why the U.S. and the Middle East can't be on good terms. We need to cut Israel from America's apron strings, and force it to grow up (something it's never had to do with America propping it up).
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America's piss-poor reputation in the world
[Read the article: Leaders of the free world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The United States and Israel are the most disliked and/or distrusted countries in the world today. Of course, when we're no longer true to our ideals, how can we expect otherwise? We torture people, we arrest people and hold 'em for years without trial, we conduct warrantless surveillance on our own citizens, we invade, threaten, and hector other countries, and the D.C. Beltway class ignores it all.
What's there for the world to like?
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The McInsane campaign intends to play rough!
[Read the article: McCain campaign adopts Bush's respect for free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The fact that Mad Bomber McInsane's campaign signed on this Greg Jenkins cretin does not bode well for protesters.
If you don't like McInsane, stay away from his campaign events--or else.
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"Zionist Joe" LIEberman; Greenwald and Sunstein
[Read the article: The honorable centrist Joe Lieberman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Senator "Zionist Joe" LIEberman of Israel--er, Connecticut--is at his morally depraved worst by pandering to a swine like Hagee. Hagee's idiocies regarding Catholics and Jews are beyond the pale. (Hey, Mr. LIEberman, did you clear this event with Mad Bomber McInsane?!)
Regarding Greenwald and Sunstein: Greenwald's comments were focused and specific, while Sunstein's comments were rather general and vague.
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The piss-poor MSM; the piss-poor Newsweek magazine
[Read the article: Who is doing real journalism?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The MSM is a Goddamn joke. It's corporate-owned, and Establishment-oriented. It's essentially a house organ for government.
Jonathan Alter's Newsweek magazine meets the preceding criteria. Fortunately, Newsweek's circulation (like that of the other government P.R. rags, TIME and USN&WR) is declining. Let's hope all three disappear.
We used to have plenty of good, hard-digging reporters and newspapers in this country. Men like H.L. Mencken, I.F. Stone, William Allen White et al. were credits to journalism. Today? Just craven, ass-sucking newspapers and
glorified talk-show hosts like Brian Williams, Charles Gibson, Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw. . . .
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Bruce Fein; Cass Sunstein
[Read the article: The parade of "shrill, unserious extremists" on display at today's impeachment hearings]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I respect Bruce Fein. He's a principled man who believes in civil liberties and the rule of law. He knows that criminality must be investigated and punished, regardless of party.
Cass Sunstein is one strange sonofabitch. He's a law professor who turns a blind eye to
government criminality, and who tries to justify Saint Barack of Obama's civil liberties-trashing FISA vote.
Time for a Supreme Court nomination? Nominate Bruce Fein, and piss on Cass Sunstein.
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"Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald"
[Read the article: Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Congratulations, Mr. Greenwald, on the debut of "Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald." Daniel Ellsberg was an excellent choice for its inaugural guest.
You say you'll make it a practice to invite as guests people who've been criticized (savaged?!) by you. I suggest you invite all the neocon chickenhawks you've slammed. Call 'em out, and see if they're man enough to respond.
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Piss on the Washington Post's depravity; piss on "national security courts"
[Read the article: The Washington Post editorial page's latest rule of law sermon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Piss on Jackson Diehl, Fred Hiatt and the rest of the Washington Post's depraved neocon thugs. America, I'm afraid, is in no position to lecture ANYBODY about ANYTHING, not after the colossal criminality (known and unknown) of the Liar-in--Chief's (mis)administration.
So the Washington Post actually advocates the creation of "national security courts," which can jail people without requiring legally sound evidence? Just "intelligence" that the guy's a "terrorist"? What crap will they think of next?
(Suggested motto for the "national security courts": "Evidence? We don't need no stinkin'
evidence!")
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Never hesitate to call out political hacks!
[Read the article: Things I learned today about democracy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, there's nothing wrong with calling out our bought-and-paid-for political hacks on their pissing on civil liberties, their warmongering, and the like. Assholes--let me repeat that, ASSHOLES--like Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller, Steny Hoyer, Chris Carney and others deserve to be called out on how they sell out to lobbyists.
Piss on Jennifer Rubin, Norman Podhoretz, and that neocon piece of crap Commentary. Those Zionist warmongering swine think that Americans exist only to fight Israel's war(s) If Rubin's of military age, she ought to enlist, and get the hell over to the Middle East to secure it for the boys in Tel Aviv.
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Piss on Sam Brownback!
[Read the article: Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That slimy sonofabitch Senator Sam Brownback sheds crocodile tears about China's surveillance of foreigners' calls, yet he voted for telecom immunity and warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans.
Piss on him.
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My compliments to U.S. District Judge John Bates
[Read the article: A federal court rejects Bush's "executive privilege" claims]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's applaud this ruling by Judge Bates. (Of course, Cass Sunstein probably doesn't like it!)