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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 02:34 PM

    tommy

    You see, I can't understand why Glenn needs to use this kind of childishness in his writing. It's just dumb and rude.

    -- tommy1733

    You can smugly call Glenn "dumb and rude" and "childish" and feel all righteous about it, but he is 'dumb and rude and childish' if he tells Shooter to basically go take a hike? After reading the thousandth BS comment from Shooter? After someone spits on your shoe a couple of hundred times you get fed up with it. Politeness is afforded to those who deserve it. A dressing down is afforded to those who scream for it over and over again.

    —Kitt Read Kitt's other letters

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