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Testing Tolerance

5.24.06 @ 12:01AM

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Good luck, Mr. Hynes, as you gather and socialize with your left-wing family and friends. I would be inclined to tell them to leave their liberalism at home or stay home themselves -- but that is just me.
-- Ken Shreve
From my camouflaged bunker behind the enemy lines in New England

INTELLECTUAL MOLEHILLS
Re: Ralph R. Reiland's Hoping for Armageddon:

I'm with you Mr. Reiland.

I say we send Messrs. Falwell, Robertson, and Phillips, to a quiet deserted island where they can duke it out for king of their peculiar intellectual molehill.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

America being destroyed by true believers? Phillips is right. He's just focused on the wrong set of true believers.

Far more dangerous than those of us he casts as insufficiently secular are those whose morality is unanchored, who confuse openness with having insufficient defense and security, who loathe truth but embrace fluff and who major in the minors of life, rather focusing on what's important.

BTW: What if Robertson and Falwell are right? What if 9/11 was a wake-up call for the country founded on Judeo-Christian principles to remember that fact and act accordingly rather than, say, having allowed approximately 40,000,000 in utero murders of children since 1973 and still allowing that practice now?
-- C. Kenna Amos Jr.
Princeton, West Virginia

PRINT IT
Re: Eric Peters's How Creepy Can It Get?:

"How Creepy Can It Get?" Not creepy enough. It's never bothered me. I have been fingerprinted for my driver's license, for a civil service job, for being employed by an airline -- also had a photo badge with encoded information in it (we were told -- I always doubted it), the likes of which you wouldn't believe.

But apparently our Congressional royalty, from Patrick Kennedy to Mr. Jefferson of Louisiana, enjoy some kind of diplomatic immunity. Jefferson thinks the FBI overstepped its authority in rifling his office. Bill Frist and Newt Gingrich agree. Are we to believe that the most highly paid criminal class in America have some kind of King's X territory where they can hide the evidence of bribery? It didn't work for Randy Cunningham, but Jefferson has that Ace-in-the-Hole, RACE, which trumps everything. Has the Mouth of the South, Cynthia who slugged a congressional cop, had charges dropped? Probably.
-- Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California

I can see it now.... One bright morning in the near future, the Neighborhood Health and Safety Commissar will want to break down someone's door for smoking cigarettes, eating red meat, or watching movies with no social conscience. But she'll be prevented by the NSA, who will want to keep their wiretap undisturbed. No problem: the Highway Patrol will catch the villain at its next random commuter roadblock, where they test the chip in your arms for nicotine, caffeine and cholesterol as well as booze on the breath (but never for THC from marijuana).

Who needs fascist repression, when everybody's rights are at the mercy of "health and safety experts" that nobody elected? Will we only wake up when government calls dissent a "health problem," too, as the Soviets used to do? Fat lot of good it will do then!
-- Martin Owens
Sacramento, CA

Since our government is in a fingerprinting mood, then let them start with Congressman Jefferson, Democrat from Louisiana, Tom DeLay, Republican from Texas, and every other corrupt politician that hasn't been caught yet. The very repressive and dim-witted laws that Congress comes up with are the very laws that our esteemed law makers violate. The old, "Do as I say and not as I do," mentality definitely applies.

If the United States Congress is the best and the brightest that this country has to offer then, "Then God help us." Ooops, I not going to be fingerprinted for making a reference to "God" am I?
-- Melvin L. Leppla
Jacksonville, North Carolina

Eric Peters was doing fine with his comments on the intrusion of government surveillance into our society, but then he couldn't resist the temptation to cheapen his work by a gratuitous slam at Richard Nixon. "Sullen DMV personnel and low-grade Nixonian bureaucrats will shortly have total access to our vital personal information at their whim, anytime -- without any meaningful legal/judicial protections against such random searches."

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