Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 1283 Editor's Choice: 4
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Classic conservative thinking
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is so unhinged, so certifiably insane, that I too am at a loss. Surely, the reason that you don't see any of this my way is not because you were in Manhattan in 2001 when the planes were crashed into the World Trade Center; it is because you were a Manhattan liberal when you cast your vote for President in 2000, and you didn't like (and still don't like) the electoral outcome.
_I_ think only for myself, therefore YOU think only for yourself. There is no morality, only THE GAME. All actions and thoughts are for personal and class advantage.
Yes, wackpachy, all this is nothing more than one long whine: I WANTED AL GORE! I WANT A GREEN PRESIDENT! BOO HOO!
Keep thinking that, and please do continue to present us with your unique brand of humor.
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@bystander
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm skeptical of any meaningful distinction between conservatism and neocon-ism. I think it's analogous to pointing out that not all barons are robbers, or that not all kings are mad. For me, the last 7 years have simply brought into focus the fact that conservatism, even when practiced according to its own rules, is still nothing more than a conspiracy to commit grand theft and mass murder. It's almost a matter of style---gentility vs thuggery.
However, I recognize that it's a distinction many make.
If any conservatives vote for Obama this election, I'd take that as more a sign that Obama is insufficiently dangerous to the political establishment than that said conservatives are not criminally insane.
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How about
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Non-Americans, held outside of America, picked up as POWs, are guaranteed access to American courts? I predict that "no prisoners" will be the future prisoner policy.
no torturing prisoners? A good thing, no?
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Bingo
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And as for Obama... the fact that someone like shooter is saying he is fine with voting for Obama should give you pause. These "honest" conservatives don't have a problem with Obama or Clinton primarily because they know corporatism rules and Obama will play their game to their satisfaction.
Which, to me, doesn't invalidate the value of electing either of them (i.e., of voting for either of them, given the current set of choices), but yes---these people know their power is diffused throughout many centers, and that no true revolutions in American politics are likely to occur just because a non-aristocrat gets elected president.
I foresee no reenactment of the beheading of Charles I, in other words.
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Obama did this?
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]n short, not only is he wrong, he's willing to use depraved verbal imagery to shock and offend.
I am surprised I did not hear about that.
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Norbitboy
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you trying to suggest that the draft was struck down as unconstitutional?
What alternative history are you living in? Don't get me wrong---I like it so far, as light summer fiction goes. As long as I don't have to live in it.
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In a word, the freedom to torture
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here].... what great difficulty would be caused by treating the Girmo detainees in accordance with the Geneva Convention?
would be constrained.
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yes it is
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Constitution provides for impeachment of judges, and also contemplates an independent judiciary. It's a pesky piece of paper, ain't it?
Makes my head hurt, it does. Let's get rid of it.
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OMG!!!
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I forgot all about my kumquat preserves!
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actually
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm currently engaged in making limoncello. (Tag line: "It makes teh butt-sex better.")
Google your own damn recipe!
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Now this is curious
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or as Justice Scalia puts it: thousands of Americans will pay with their lives due to this misbegotten travesty of justice, most likely before November 2008.
Nozzlebuffer, do you and the Two-Fisted Judge know something we don't?
If so, I suggest you take it to your local Homeland Security franchise. They'll know what cell to put you in---I mean, what shiny medal to give you.
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Watch it, scoot
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps you should consider that if you can't demonstrate that you are a US citizen or a non citizen resident, then you have been "disappeared" and have NO recourse to liberty whatsoever. Now well and truly, STFU.
or soon you'll be making our own arguments for us.
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Brezhnev, Obama, Gorbachev, and Me
[Read the article: Conservatism vs. authoritarianism: The British vs. the U.S. right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the last thread. WT commented that Obama need not be the solution, just a first step toward a possible solution---at least, perhaps, a step away from the problem. This is exactly how I feel about his campaign.
And I want to comment that the Wall, mentioned here today, was not brought down by an enormously competent, shrewd, educated radical raised outside the system (and no, I'm not describing Reagan). It was brought down by a bumbling bureaucrat whose primary characteristic was his fundamental decency. Gorbachev had no idea that his glasnostic reforms would do what they did. He was in that sense the worst premier the USSR ever had---but at the same time the best.
As Glenn remarks, it matters what politicians do, not what they believe in. Experience within the system, lack of experience, lack of convictions---all the slings and arrows cast in Obama's direction from left and right---don't matter. What matters is whether we can hold him accountable in a way previous presidents have not been, and McCain never would be, and make sure he does what needs to be done.