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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (167523)	4/11/2003 1:46:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583742

Ted, <The kind of stuff the CNN guy reported [and worse] goes on daily all over the world.> What really apalls me is how you seem very tolerant of this kind of stuff everywhere else in the world, yet very intolerant of trivial concerns here in America. What appalls me is that the right seems to be discovering crimes against humanity, specifically crimes committed by Saddam, right as WMD appear to be a bit scarce in post war Iraq. Am I being a little cynical.....nah, I don't think so. A cancellation of the anniversary of Bull Durham is considered censorship on your part, while Saddam's brutal oppression of any speech whatsoever barely gets a peep out of you. Yes, I am growing more and more worried with the increase of informal censorship in this country, the tone for which is being set by this administration. And yes, my concern is for events first in this country, and then, for other events in other countries. I'm sure you can identify with the concept. It's a shame when Susan Sarandon suffers some publicity setbacks for her anti-Bush stance, but when Iraqi women get tortured and raped for even looking at a Saddam statue the wrong way, liberals respond with "s--t happens everywhere in this world, so what?" I don't remember the right focused on the rape of Iraqi women when they were beating the war drums last summer or fall. Back then, the concern was that Saddam was getting ready to storm the Statue of Liberty or to ship us a suitcase of nukes. Again, this belated concern for the Iraqi people is a relatively recent event corresponding with the increasing number of bogus finds of WMD reported by the White House News outlet, FOX. But hey, I'm sure liberals would give a damn if a Democrat were in office, so maybe I should pray for that before hoping that they too put the atrocities of this world in the right perspective. Yeah, that's right; we only care about people when a Dem is in office. At least when we do, the caring is real. ted

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (167523)	4/11/2003 1:49:09 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1583742

But hey, I'm sure liberals would give a damn if a Democrat were in office, so maybe I should pray for that before hoping that they too put the atrocities of this world in the right perspective. These people aren't liberals. True liberals would NEVER sit still for the kinds of atrocities that were taking place in Iraq. True liberals would NEVER sit still for a president sexually assaulting women (remember, they were LIBERALS who drove Bob Packwood out of office for making unwanted sexual advances (not rape, mind you)). The bottom line is we have a new class of political entity. Not conservatives, not liberals. We need a new name that reflects the inherent political nature of these people, devoid of principle, people who act only to preserve political viability. Any ideas for a descriptive name?