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6.9.08 @ 12:01AM

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DO ALL YOU CAN BE
Re: Ron Schoenberg's letter (under "Better Think Twice") in Reader Mail's Pick Her:

Ron Schoenberg's concern about civil rights is frankly hard to take seriously. When Clinton cronies were poking through raw FBI files of political enemies, liberals like Schoenberg were looking the other way. Who hired those hacks and gave them access to those files? Hillary Clinton would be a very good guess but the incurious Schoenberg and his pals couldn't have cared less. Where is Hillary today? She is a liberal Senator and recently grabbed about half the vote to be the Democrat nominee for President. When liberal Washington Congressman Jim McDermott was making illegally recorded phone calls of his fellow Republican Congressman public, liberals like Schoenberg said and did nothing. No right to privacy here. No need for warrants here. Where is ethically-challenged McDermott today? Still representing the "good" folks of Washington in a very liberal district.

There are all kinds of schemes in Congress by good liberal Democrats to shut down talk radio, always dressed in "fairness" talk. Where are the concerned liberals defending free speech? They are a pretty quiet group. College campuses (Republican-free zones) are using speech codes to silence opposition because the usual threats of violence and the disrupting of free speech betray what these liberals are really about. Do liberals call for reform? Not really. The way liberals closed ranks concerning Ruby Ridge and Waco was a sight to behold. It was more important to protect their President than to worry about the civil rights of some weirdoes.

An interpretation of Schoenberg's concern might be that he cares about constitutional rights only for those he agrees with politically. If you are a Republican, look out. If you are part of Al Qaeda he is there to help. Like today's feature on "Liberal Scrooges," liberals speak about civil rights only as away to make themselves feel better about themselves. Their actual performance is very menacing to many of their neighbors -- and not only a hypothetical way.
-- Clif Briner

Doncha just love it? Ron, from the Socialist Soviet of Seattle, equating the terrorists with something akin to a pesky wart or hangnail: "All they can do is terrorize"?

I sat there, literally shaking my head after reading his audacity...

Unbelievable -- if it weren't so prevalent in too many instances.

Now, if you'll pardon me, I'm about to be ill.
-- Frost

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