Letters to the Editor
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The way constrictors kill
Contrary to popular belief, constrictors do not crush their victim. What they do is tighten a bit every time the victim exhales, eventually the victim cannot inhale any more and dies of anoxia.
Our democracy is dying of anoxia from the constrictor of government. Every time we allow a little incursion into our liberties, government tightens the coils a bit.
I've been watching this constrictor tighten for nigh on twenty years and trying to warn others of this danger, almost always to no avail.
Even here, my concerns are pooh poohed and dismissed as the rantings of an obsessive.
You exhaled for the drug war and the governmental coils tightened , now you have exhaled for the terror war and the coils have tightened further.
Once fully in the coils of a constrictor the victim seldom escapes death.
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-- The Notorious W.E.S.
"Right Now We Have Bigger Fish To Fry
Than the subpoena stuff or telecom immunity. We have to win this damn election. It's 10 months away."
To what end would you win "this damn election"?
Would you win it so that the newly elected President will be a Democrat? If so, why do you believe a Democrat President would be any different than a Republican President given the performance of our currently elected Democrats?
Frankly, the only candidate currently running for President who will get my vote is John Edwards......and he won't get it unless he gets off his ass and starts leading the discussion toward correcting the lawlessness of this current bunch of miscreants.
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10 Months Isn't Enough Time
To do anything about that stuff. It may have been craven a while back, now we have to be practical.
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karrsic
In Nevada, we don't like wiretaps. We don't like lie detector tests. We are very private people. I think that is basically where America is. They don't like their privacy invaded.
Oh bullshit.
People in Nevada piss in cups just like anywhere else.
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Glenn Quixote versus the Windmill part 23
We have a negligently authoritarian government of one branch and one party.
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There is No Party Priority Now
Other than smoothing out the Clinton-Obama feud. That can lose it for us.
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Unruly Democrats, "Rife with Umbrage"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/65579
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@HRH, Karrsic
There are times when giving up some personal liberties works. After Vietnam the military had a terrible problem with drug usage. Everyone, four-star generals on down, had to pee in a cup without prior notice. We cleared up a substantial portion of the drug problem very quickly as a result. And yes HRH, I did not mention alcohol which wasn’t covered by the test and yes we continued to have a major problem with alcoholics because drinking was at that time an essential part of the culture. Over time, one DWI could be enough to ruin an officer’s career or mess with enlisted promotions and the amount of drinking gradually decreased to a more reasonable level.
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W.E.S
Clinton knew damn well that Bush was going to invade Iraq and voted for it anyway.
Obama is lying about his "faith".
Neither is going to do crap to save us.
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Follow the Money
Sen. Reid is like a religious convert: he's more GOP than the RNC. This former Democratic leader of the Senate has become chauffeur and sexton for the Bush/Cheney regime. He's breaking all speed limits on his way to the cemetery and hopes to bury before dawn the remains of the Constitution, FISA, and the string of other laws the administration has desecrated. Tom DeLay must be scratching his head, wondering why he still risks prison time for having helped gerrymander Texas into a snake's nest of GOP-dominant congressional districts.
Why has Harry gone over to the Dark Side? Has he, like Faust or Dorian Grey, sold his soul for knowledge or power or long life? Is he protecting his own and burying Democratic connivance in Republican criminality? Or is he simply a closet neo-con who believes the administration is justified in doing what it has and more?
Whatever the rationale, Reid and his cohort are not serving the public or Democratic interests. Who does he serve? Should we just follow the money to find out?
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The power of corruption
Is found through blackmail, coercion and the lust for power by the sitting members of congress. This government for years has been secretly gathering information on members that may oppose the white house and it's radical criminal political agenda and make sure that the offending members of congress whoever they are be well informed of the information the executive may have gathered.
This will silence any career politician that has as their main goal in life to become rich and powerful. These kind of tactics are what comrade Karl excelled at.
Nothing will be done by the sitting congress as they are part of the problem as Glenn so aptly pointed out.The good ole boy network is tearing this Republic apart bit by bit in a slow rotting process that is perhaps the worst kind of decay in a system that continually lies to its constituents on a daily basis that everything is ok and therefore "don"t worry be happy", I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.
The destruction of our Republic can be easily seen by anyone not falling for the magicians tricks on the hill. Those that inhabit the star chambers are digging themselves a hole that will haunt them and cost them in the next incarnation they endure, which in and of itself will be others living lessons to recall for the treachery they performed against innocent beings.
Enjoy the riches now magi, it is very temporary.
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Hillary
May be a pleasant surprise to you if she wins.
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RMP
There are times when giving up some personal liberties works. After Vietnam the military had a terrible problem with drug usage.
So we are all in the military now?
I did not know that.
/johnny carson
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HRH - Good POint - Pissing in a Cup IS ABOUT CONTROL
Control exercised by corporations at the behest of the government controlled by the corporations.
Huh? There's more, I think. Nothing happens on such a large scale and so consistently unless there are several powerful interests allied. So what and who is responsible for the sorry state of America? It wouldn't be so unless there were a significant portion of the population that supports the authoritarian agenda. Just as the Nazis were supported by an alliance of the Junkers (military), the big bourgeois (corporate moneyed interests), and a big chunk of the dispossessed lumpen who were empowered by the movement, the authoritarian movement in Amerika is sustained by the same interests.
And as we get more and more disposessed lumpen, homeless, unemployed, and broke, I think it could get worse. Much much worse. I mean scapegoats being hunted down and beaten in the streets (not jews - Mexicans - it's already happening, and supported explicitly by the Republican establishment.)
Batten down the hatches. These fuckers would rather destroy the country than yield power.