Letters to the Editor
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Wait a minute
Schumer doesn't get reamed for backing Mukasey? Tsk.
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Clever Troll
Ah, right out of the chute comes the troll. The one who thinks he's clever.
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All I can say is
Kieth is my congressman, I'm proud to have voted for him. I never have to call him to vote a certain way. I only call him to thank him.
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Right-wing bloggers are funny
They like to throw in little phrases like "What bothers me most..." that make it seem they have actually done some thinking and chin-stroking and have been forced to conclude that Greenwald has the wrong end of the argument, etc. etc. They love that kind of thing. Strip it away and you have nothing but WAHHHH!
Imagine reading this:
"What bothers me most about Stalin is that he has slaughtered millions of innocent people in his quest for total power. We cannot overlook this when we ponder whether to support his regime...."
But you won't. Nothing about Stalin bothers them. And sane people don't write like that about Stalin, outside of The Onion.
What bothers them most is that Greenwald exists, that Greenwald thinks and speaks, that Greenwald raises points they fear and want buried and forgotten---quaint and outdated bogeymen like due process, habeas corpus, freedom of speech, and on and on.
What doesn't bother them about the US Constitution?
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Accused sympathizer
I guess that conservatives think that if your name is Arabic, that being "accused" means never being afforded any rights what so ever.
Scary.
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It's the main reason I've always supected this WH
wants to imprison people without going through the US judicial system....Cheney knew that he would put anyone and everyone in jail whom either dissented with the WH over the war or illegally imprisoned people just to have a body-count in prisons to justify the war as well.
At what point is Congress going to realize the gross politicization of our Govt. and the GROSS Hatch Act violations of it, misappropriation of power, deriliction of duty...
Don't get me started on how many crimes this WH should be charged with.............
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New Cause?
"This week's Star Tribune report on Ellison's new cause [due process for al-Haj]..."--Scott Johnson of Powerline
How is that standing up for due process could be labeled as a "new cause"? And Scott Johnson calls himself an attorney at law?
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About your last paragraph
who simply do not believe in the founding principles of the country -- have always been, and continue to be, the ones who most loudly accuse others of anti-Americanism.
Clearly, we're at the point where a belief in due process, press freedoms and basic restraints on government and military power demonstrate a hatred for America and its freedoms.
I know your presenting the argument facetiously but in doing so, your missing an opportunity to turn the argument on its head, where it belongs. Not to put too fine a point on it, people do don't believe in due process, press freedoms and basic restraints on government and military power are anti-American traitors. They'd clearly have trouble passing the sort of Constitution test we require of immigrants. Why they should even be allowed to call themselves Americans remains a mystery to me.
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Power trippers the neo nazis of America
are everywhere you look these days.Politicians, newsrooms, Police departments, schools, next door neighbors. Fear creates the worst in a society and the wonderful newsrooms of America pump out that fear with daily talking points and rarely stray from their agenda.
To try to document life as it happens through photojournalism has become a dangerous profession here in Amerika and anywhere America has an interest to protect. The interest America has to protect is the phony war on terror that is and always has been a sham and a hoax for the express purpose of putting the American people under a national security police state and to further the global agenda.
In Iraq it is to control the flow of oil to artificially keep the price of oil as high as possible for bush and cheneys pals to get as rich as they possibly can. A monetary policy based on war only helps the elites to become more powerful and more corrupt and digs all of us in to a deeper hole and not to mention all the enemies we create along the way while doing so.
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The Unamericans
These folks have never believed in core American political principles. I'm old enough to remember the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. When the Committee was in session, it was frequently the case that the only Unamericans in the room were the members of the Committee themselves.
How many devotees of the Enlightenment have there ever been in America? The miracle is that we've done as well as we have. Belief in democracy, and belief in civil liberties of the kind encapsulated in the Bill of Rights will always result in at least some cognitive dissonance in an age of powerful demagogues. That it has let to outright schizophrenia in our own time is a measure of how badly we've failed to measure up to the hopes that the founders had for us. Sadly, this failure didn't begin with George Bush; it began even before the ink was dry on the Constitution itself.
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"They can't process it ..."
Indeed, they can't process the importance of due process and civil rights. Unless that is, they're specifically told that it's their civil rights that are to be threatened.
When meeting with apologists for bush II's violations of human rights, I've taken to saying how I would like a leftist government to inflict on these right-wingers what they inflict on us. I go into detail how they would be spied upon, arrested on bogus charges, restricted in their freedom to travel, harrassed at work for speaking their minds, etc., and that's when they accuse me of "fascist" tendencies.
But, alas, when I then point out the blatant hypocrisy of their position, they get confused again. Case in point:
http://thwapschoolyard.blogspot.com/2007/10/suppressing-dissent.html
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Does this remind you of anything?
Ellison, because he is a Muslim, is expected to prove that he is NOT on the side of America's enemies. When Nancy Pelosi visited Syria and donned a headscarf as a gesture of common courtesy toward the social customs of the host country, Michelle Malkin screeched that she was "wearing the uniform of the enemy."
Can you think of a political group in another country, in not-so-distant history, that defined its "enemies" not by their actions but by their religious affiliation? Do you remember what that group finally did about it when they got political power, mainly be defining everyone who opposed them as "weaklings" and "wimps?"