Letters to the Editor
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This was a nice concert, a great idea and I love Al Gore's leadership of it, BUT
At the end of the day on Saturday, a certain truth was self-evident: we can do the right things for the right reasons, and the right answer can benefit everyone. Al Gore demonstrated nicely that the truth, however inconvenient, will eventually set you free.
But does he still believe in a Drug Free America?
Seriously, the man is no saint. He's stood up for some ideas that are really just fantasies and have nothing to do with truth -- not even the truth making itself evident within his own family.
As a politician, he was part of an administration that stood for the noble lie. They confined their noble lying to drug policy, for sure, but you can't look back at his time in office and claim that administration stood for accepting inconvenient truths.
I'm grateful for Gore's leadership in the global warming issue, but fight against global warming should not become a cult of personality wrapped around Al Gore.
This article kinda makes me queasy, frankly, because it seems to do just that.
And about Cintra's use of the slogan "Flower Power" -- the Clinton-Gore administration specifically attacked the hippie legacy when they went after cannabis users with a vengeance, tripling the national arrest rate from 250,000 under Bush I to 750,000 when they left office, roughly where it stands today.
Putting the name "Al Gore" together with the concept of "Flower Power" feels like a kind of sick joke at the expense of all the aging hippies whose lives the Clinton-Gore anti-cannabis pogrom managed to destroy.
So let's think for a moment before we start anointing Al Gore as the new Flower Power Messiah.