Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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The troll family: nth in an ongoing series
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are Electro, Scooter, Norbitgeek, etc. all really the same person?
No. Scooter is far more detached and efficient than the otehrs, and doesn't change every topic to the persecution of Jews. He reads Glenn's posts, ignores comments he can't use to his advantage, and only comments about once per day. He has shown remarkable facility in changing his tune over the years, an indication that he doesn't believe---and doesn't need to believe---most of his assertions.
Arne's characterization of Electrotroll is dead on. Of course, he's not really a spambot, but he may as well be. When he's not introducing persecution non sequiturs to get the crowd riled up, he likes to pile on meaningless facts like "the USSR has twice the number of nuclear-armed missiles possessed by the US." But he can't put together a single coherent comment. He is easily drawn into juvenile fistfights (see General Zod's expert handling of these) and is emotionally immature. I think he's actually too unprofessional to be working for AIPAC, though I have accused him of it.
Knorbit is naive, not very bright, probably quite young, and has a lot of time on his hands. He is easily confused and thinks he is far smarter than he is. (Use this to your advantage.) He literally spouts nonsense and silliness to get attention, yet takes himself very seriously.
"Susan" is more in control and probably older. He is capable of mounting disruptive attacks that demand counterattacks, because they actually sound almost reasonable. I suspect her of professional status (possibly AIPAC/ADL) for this reason. She doesn't comment as much as the above 2, but chooses her words well.
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@LWM
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ADL perhaps. Not AIPAC. They move in the more rareified atmosphere of policy makers. CAMERA - or FLAME (perfect name), to a lesser degree - are the organizations that monitor media.
Thanks for that intelligence.
Of course there's always a moat of alphabet soup surrounding any such operation. I'm sure Scooter would be technically truthful if he denied working for the GOP. But I have no doubt he is a professional political operative/communications specialist of some kind.
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Some things don't ever change. Empire is Empire.
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We hear much in these days about the dangers of innocence, much that is false and a little that is true. But the argument is almost exclusively applied to sexual innocence. There is a great deal that ought to be said about the dangers of political innocence. That most necessary and most noble virtue of patriotism is very often brought to despair and destruction, quite needlessly and prematurely, by the folly of educating the comfortable classes in a false optimism about the record and security of the Empire. Young people like Barbara Traill have often never heard a word about the other side of the story, as it would be told by Irishmen or Indians or even French Canadians, and it is the fault of their parents and their papers if they often pass abruptly from a stupid Britishism to an equally stupid Bolshevism. The hour of Barbara Traill was come, though she probably did not know it.
"If England keeps her promises," said the man with the beard, frowning, "there is still a chance that things may be quiet."
And Barbara had answered, like a schoolboy:
"England always keeps her promises."
"The Waba have not noticed it," he answered with an air of triumph.
The omniscient are often ignorant. They are often especially ignorant of ignorance. The stranger imagined that he was uttering a very crushing repartee, as perhaps he was, to anybody who knew what he meant. But Barbara had never heard of the Waba. The newspapers had seen to that.
G.K. Chesterton, Four Faultless Felons. 1930. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300781h.html
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Your number is up, LWM
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please report to the detention center downtown.
Brightstar will provide directions, since only he knows where it is.
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Just a comment, but a serious one
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I will say, I see entirely too much apologetic excuse making by people on here on behalf of government. How do you know so much about why the government is the way it is, that you can feel safe making weird suppositions?
Maybe LWM really does have his head buried in the sand, and thinks everything will be all right if only he keeps his head down and believes.
But I can't see how accurate observations of actual behavior by the US government, and gross distinctions of same, can be seen a excuse-making. Maybe we're reliving Germany in 1930, but if so, then it's not yet 1941, is it? Witness intimidation and death camps simply are not the same thing.
And you say there is no difference, then YOU are the one making weird suppositions.
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@Brightstar
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do my part, I did my part. Nobody cared. I gave up. Fuck you all, jerks. You get WHAT YOU DESERVE apparently.
I have to conclude from this that you didn't care that much in the first place.
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P Morgan
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nicely put.
I can't imagine placing my trust, if that matters, in any dissident who is too eager to abandon argument and turn to direct action---who does so long before the potential effect of "words" has dried up. I'd have to believe he just enjoys bashing heads.
There are always such people. Revolutions need them to spark and to sustain them. Often they are the same people who turn around and purge the revolution after it has succeeded and has nowhere to go but inward. Such people provoke and invite provocation.
I'm betting brightstar doesn't really believe in "action"---he's just caught between an intuition that the time for words is past, and knowledge that the time for real "action" has not yet arrived. If so, I sympathize. But I won't listen.
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@adnoto
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As far as I can see, you have it backwards.
PDA has made no such claims about his own accomplishments. Rather, Brightstar has. With no evidence.