My anger flowed today at my newspaper. I'm tired of feeling unhinged.

[mmonk]

In response to an editorial they had called "9/11 forever", I wrote this to the editor of the paper in an email:

I decided to send you a note on the last paragraph of your paper’s editorial, “9/11-forever”. Evidently we live on a different planet. We have been living through an historical assault on constitutional government, governmental checks and balances, and the Bill of Rights. Those of us who have been trying for years now to be Paul Reveres warning our fellow citizens who can’t see through all the distortion out there, always seem thwarted by a press that seems to be a wall between what we know and the citizens who have bought into all the cheap propaganda following the 9/11 tragedy. The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights have been swamped for years now under a case load that conflicts directly with your sentence “The country has managed to maintain freedom, all those wonderful freedoms noted in the Bill of Rights, even as an ever-present threat looms.” We have been under a full system failure of checks and balances and the press has been an integral part of the failure. Sorry for the anger but we are angry and have had quite enough. Are we allowed a rebuttal?


I'm tired. Though I have a friendly relationship with this editor, I couldn't help it. Should I be ashamed? I don't seem to fit in anymore hardly anywhere. How do I clear my mind and accept the new America?

[gratuitous]

1. A terrific missive

If you and the editor are truly on friendly terms, it should have an impact on that person. Your imagery of a wall of cheap propaganda thrown up by the popular media is very, very good. And which freedoms are we observing or celebrating when we lock up people for years on end, torture them into insanity and then refuse to charge them, try them or release them?

[mmonk]

2. Sometimes, I don't even know if they know.

Newspaper people are polite with me and allow my letters but they remain the same.

[barbtries]

3. i think your letter should be published

maybe it will make the editor THINK. somehow people have to stop letting the fucking republicans tell them what to THINK.

and don't feel alone. i've been a peace symbol crammed into a swastika for years. it sucks.

[mmonk]

4. A lot of my letters are published. I just thought I would send him a

personal one since we discuss things time to time.

[otohara]

5. Never Be Ashamed

for despising what Bush/Cheney did to our country in the wake of 911. They are the shameful criminals in this mess.

I'm guessing you live in a red city/county/state.

Find an Obama campaign office (if you have one in your hood) go volunteer, make some calls - get these assholes out of our government.