Letters to the Editor
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@Mona
It'll make you laugh so... one more:
Not Holier Than Thou -
How Queer Is Bush?
By Alan Stang
8-29-7
That is the title of my new book, which has finally hit the streets. It is the story of the takeover of the Republicrud Party by Organized Sodomy...
http://www.rense.com/general78/holier.htm
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The Past Isn't Dead...
Aych, I'm well aware that certain news barons have, at times, lapsed into such deviant complicity with the government they were supposedly "covering."
What feels new is the unanimity of the practice now. No longer is it one or two "news" organs that are corrupted, it is all of them, to the point where the one that steps out of line, in this case the NYT, stands alone. Admittedly, the Washington Post found itself in a similar spot after the 1972 election, but the other segments of the media were more ignorant than complicit in allowing that to happen, and the story was much murkier and (it seemed at the time) a little less significant than the pretext for a preemptive war.
Funny, although the Nixon Administration politicized, expanded, lengthened, and manipulated the Vietnam war to arrogate more power, screw its enemies, and enhance government secrecy, they didn't start the damn thing to do so.
For that, the Bushies get the prize. Cheney was taking notes, wasn't he?
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Cocktailhag
What feels new is the unanimity of the practice now. No longer is it one or two "news" organs that are corrupted, it is all of them, to the point where the one that steps out of line, in this case the NYT, stands alone.
In the case of Anslinger and Hearst, who "stepped out of line" in the mainstream press and told the truth?
To the best of my knowledge, no one. The lies promulgated by government and press continue unabated to this day.
Which is quite a large part of why we have ended up where we are today.. At least in my estimation.
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messagemultipliers.com
I am compiling a list of the "military analysts," along with their phone numbers and other contact information. This is to help the public get in touch with expert strategists to check up on how the war's going. See http://messagemultipliers.com/ for what I have so far, and email me additional names and contact information!
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@LWM re: Stang on "Organized Sodomy
It'll make you laugh so... one more:
Hey, I do not remember that as a theme from the one speech I heard from Stang as a teen. (As I VERY vaguely recall, he then was all up in arms about international banking/UN conspiracies.) But I'm all in favor of Organized Sodomy, which, per common law, includes oral sex. Poor Alan if he hasn't. . . well, let us not complete that thought.
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Organ-ized
Mona, thanks for the chuckle; I too am in favor of organized sodomy. There are some things one can be disorganized about, and sodomy is decidedly not among them.
But thanks for not completing that thought, since everyone her is fully capable of doing so.
What's better than roses on a piano?
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Cuban hotel bomber interviewed in prison, 8/06/2005
Bomber initially thought task was `heroic mission’
Jim DeFede
Former Miami Herald columnist
As he explains precisely how he planted a string of bombs at hotels around the Cuban capital in the summer of 1997, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon mentions the Hotel Nacional...
I tell him that’s where I’m staying. He laughs and then smiles and shrugs.
Among Cubans, Cruz Leon is known simply as ‘’The Salvadoran,’’ the man who placed six of the dozen or more bombs that rocked Cuban tourist sites that year, including the bomb at the Copacabana that killed Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo.
He was captured not long after the Copa bombing and was sentenced to death in March 1999. His sentence is under appeal—which means the Cuban government values him more alive than dead, at least for now.
In his first interview with a U.S. newspaper since his conviction six years ago, Cruz Leon talked about his life in Cuba’s Guanajay Prison, the death of di Celmo, and his feelings toward Luis Posada Carriles, the man responsible for sending him on what he once believed was a “heroic mission.’’
Our meeting takes place away from the prison, in a house used by Cuban state security in Siboney, a neighborhood on the west side of the city. Dressed in jeans, a polo shirt and sneakers—as opposed to his normal prison uniform—and with his hair neatly trimmed, Cruz Leon appeared healthy.
A former member of El Salvador’s military, Cruz Leon was 26 when he was recruited in San Salvador for the bombing campaign. He said he was approached by another Salvadoran, Francisco Chavez Abarca, who was familiar with what Cruz Leon described as his “spirit of adventure.’’
‘’He also knew I had right-wing thoughts,’’ Cruz Leon said...
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They say they have a small garden where they grow vegetables and a television set where they watched the news about Posada’s entry into the United States and his arrest by Homeland Security...
http://havanajournal.com/politics/entry/cuban_hotel_bomber_interviewed_in_prison/
I'm not sure if it sounds worse than a regular prison here or not. Possibly not.
Mona,
In my own defense, let me just point out where it all went south and explain that I had made no mention of what's his face at this point:
By the way, L.W.M., your attitude makes YOU
and people like you, apologists for EVIL, the TRUE problem.
-- brightstar65
Excuse, like assholes
Y'all get your stuff organized, Glenn is doing a good job trying to rally opposition to these travesties.
But I will say, I see entirely too much apologetic excuse making by people on here on behalf of government. How do you know so much about why the government is the way it is, that you can feel safe making weird suppositions?
First ADMIT your government is evil and inimical to the future of this nation and to its people (who have less than $100million or so). Then either begin to do something about it, or admit defeat and let your fascist task masters roll over you already.
-- brightstar65
In fact, I had just commented on the eclectic collection of writers at a Christian Reconstructionist site, CovenantNews.Com.
This is the kind of insane ranting we could all do without.