Letters to the Editor

• Ignorance may be a choice, lack of "patriotism" isn't

  Consent of the governed. People must want to believe these fantasies, because there is so much available information to the contrary. Ignorance, in this country with the availability of information resources that every person (except perhaps the most destitute or extremely rural), is a choice.
  — omooex

  History — Lessons — Ignore — Repeat.

  Have you been paying attention since 2001? Have you been listening to how the country's nominal 'leaders' have been exploiting the "threat" of "Islamofascism"? (Hint: It's called "fear-mongering"). Have you been listening to how those who claim that the threat is exaggerated have been characterized? If you don't want to page back through the editorial pages of the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal, just look at the local version by reading the back posts of shooter or nabalnazi. How many people have had their patriotism questioned by the lapel-pin patriots? The amount of information to the contrary is irrelevant. Human nature doesn't change and there are always people willing to exploit that immutability.

  -- Frankly, my dear, ...
  [Read Frankly, my dear, ...'s other letters]
  Permalink Saturday, April 12, 2008 03:20 PM