Tuesday, October 09, 2007

another letter and a response

Stop the slaughter in Burma. Call in the American Civil Liberties Union. Burma news says as many as 10,000 people - many of them monks who led the demonstrations, have been rounded up for interrogation in recent days. We have been lectured time and time again about how the ACLU defends our liberties. Here is the perfect time for them to show what they are made of.
I call for a delegation to immediately pack their bags and get to Myanmar aka Burma and demand that the killing stop, for the people only want freedom and democracy. And who better to defend peace and freedom than the ACLU? I am sure that if the ACLU argues long and hard, the murderous leftists will have a change of heart and stop dragging thousands of people into the jungle to be gunned down and left to rot. And if all else fails, the boycotting of Chinese goods will surely push them over the edge. Do not buy those Chinese stuffed teddy bears and you will drive the ruling junta into immediate capitulation. Now if Halliburton were doing work in Rangoon, the ACLU would be on the next flight.

From, John T.

My response.

" A new low for Partisonship "

John T , had a letter published in the AJ on October 6th, using the horrors in Burma, as a backdrop to write a satirical argument, lambasting the ACLU (yet again).

What kind of sad excuse for a human being would endeavor to use twisted humor referencing Burmese Monks being slaughered and dragged into the streets, as a foundation to take a shot at the ACLU?

This is partisonship gone mad. John T., despite the fact the ACLU is one of your favorite whipping boys, your letter is unconscionable. What staggers the imagination is that the ACLU, again, is solely in existance to protect the Bill of Rights!

Have you lost your mind? Isn't there a more productive way to explain your viewpoints?

Where is the outrage from our Conservative community? Silence is unacceptable.

5 Comments:

At 5:17 AM, Blogger Chris the Hippie said...

Here in Iowa all you have to do is whisper "ACLU" and everyone immediately grabs pitchforks and torches...

 
At 2:55 PM, Blogger mrsleep said...

screw with the NRA and the wingnuts are all over you. other civil liberties? you get a yawn.

 
At 4:22 PM, Blogger Intellectual Insurgent said...

What does the ACLU have to do with Burma?

 
At 4:02 PM, Blogger mrsleep said...

nothing.

 
At 2:52 PM, Blogger Odysseus said...

I'm not sure what's more disturbing, the logic in the original letter or that the publication printed it. Hope you're enjoying some indoor time while your land absorbs the rain for next season.

 

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