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• Saturday, May 10, 2008 08:56 AM

  Bucky, are implying that Glenn believes "all government is tyranny anyhow"?

  You quote me saying:

  " ... Politics to me is just a given, like having umpires or referees in sport - and it seems so obvious that if one starts out with the idea that all government is tyranny anyhow, then one has deprived oneself of any means of combating tyranny in the normal sense, because one has said, it's all the same ... "

  Then YOU say:

  "Politics in America at this time may well be a force that one must contend with, but ignoring the truth is not a wise plan. Glenn Greenwald spends the majority of his published words setting the record straight and pointing out the falsehoods and pro-government propaganda that pretends to be "news". Should he just stop and tell everyone that all is well and to believe your 5th grade teacher about how our system works? I think not."

  Either this is a complete non-sequitur, or you are trying to tell me that he writes his articles because he starts out from the idea that "all government is tyranny anyhow." If this is the case, it's the first I have heard of it, and I should appreciate if someone could show me where he says this. My argument was that anyone who thinks this will have no incentive for trying to "improve" or "reform" it, and therefore no motive for writing detailed critiques in the way that he does.

  Oh, and whoever it is who claims to infer from my dismissal of simplistic attitude metrics that I have done them, and disliked the result I have obtained, is just spinning his wheels.

  —Rowan Berkeley Read Rowan Berkeley's other letters
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