Letters to the Editor
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Why isn't Salon writing about innocent poor Americans who are suffering?
Given the horrible economy, with working poor, long term un and under employed American citizens facing homelessness, and experiencing it given their jobs being outsourced, and others are being displaced. They and their children facing real hunger, deprivation. Citizens diagnosed with more cases of malnutrition than during the great depression. Citizens dying because they are denied much needed health care, it seems obscene for Salon to treat Briana Waters as some kind of victim, or poster child of those treated unjustly.
She is affluent (you can't live in Berkeley unless you are), has had every opportunity.. given the real suffering that exists among her fellow Americans, there were options for activism based on need, rather than extremist ideology. While Waters and those like her fiddle with ELF and Earth First, poor citizens suffer demeaning and immoral deprivations. Their human and civil rights are violated and ignored.. but clearly some, like Briana Waters stands out as more worthy a candidate for discussion?
Frankly, I don't care if she's tossed away for 20 years. There are working poor Americans who worked hard, struggled to provide a roof over their childrens heads, food on the table, for an opportunity for their children to have things a little better than they did, to go to college, yet so called "progressive" elites can't be bothered to care about the humanity of the poor in their own backyard.. who are slipping through the cracks, forced to be the ones to continuously pay for the caprice of clueless leftists who could care less. Perhaps because they are more concerned with their investments, and that forthcoming third world junket they have planned?