You know, what am I not getting? I mean, if only this would be true and the Management of the Pelican Press really did offer diverse views, then why on earth did they not permit this great column from appearing in their paper?
You know, while some readers may have been upset at first, then have gotten over it, I say this is the best time for everyone to offer Support to Mary and write to the Management of the Pelican Press. We need Mary back more now than ever. Or, you can keep reading the same mundane writing by other local columnists of the other major rags out there…. Buy a dictionary; better yet visit the library and read something other than that leftist propaganda.
Name required. Email required. Follow MC: Newsletter. To wit: Disloyalty is a President who sends American soldiers into combat with unarmored and soft-topped Humvees — the vulnerability of which has made them a target of choice for roadside and suicide attacks. And dissent? The only disloyalty in this drama comes from a man repelled by the notion that much of American eminence came from its ability to prosper from dissent. Art Thiel is co-founder of sportspressnw.
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If you have an opinion you wish to share for publication, send a letter to the editor to letters heraldnet. Box , Everett, WA But war breeds powerful and often dangerous passions. No one wants to hear that his son or daughter, brother or sister, is putting life and limb at risk for an ignoble or futile cause.
In the throes of wartime, it is easy to lose sight of the essential difference between dissent and disloyalty. Throughout our history, a succession of irresponsible and opportunistic journalists and politicians has intentionally blurred this line to incite fear and hatred. I recently encountered just such a "journalist" firsthand. Of course, this is a loaded question. It not-so-subtly implies that those who oppose the war in Iraq want the United States to lose and, worse, want American soldiers to die as O'Reilly later actually charged.
Sadly, this tactic is all too familiar in U. In , when the nation was on the verge of war with France, Federalist newspapers in defense of President John Adams characterized Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and their followers as the "worst and basest of men" who were "preying on the vitals of the country. In the Red Scare, during which thousands of "radicals" were rounded up for deportation in the Palmer Raids, the Chicago Tribune screamed that "it is only a middling step from Petrograd to Seattle," and the New York Tribune fumed that strikers, "red-soaked in the doctrines of Bolshevism," were plotting "a general red revolution in America.
And that goes for all of them.
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