In These Times

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• • 29 May 08
  • 8:44 am

  Dear Candice Gorman, When this Administration is tried in the Hague for the war crimes it committed, and when world public opinion condemns its cruelty, venality and cowardrice, you and a handful of other brave lawyers defending Guantanomo prisoners will be honored by history just like German resisters to Hitler and Soviet dissidents now are. Your work redeems the sins of the apathetic sheeplike nation of WalMart shoppers and American Idol watchers. It also makes it impossible for us to say, at some future date: "What? Our government did this? How horrible. We had absolutely no idea." We all bear the …

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• • 29 May 08
  • 8:42 pm

  To rlcn7910 Whatever is a good word, esp. all by itself. People who shop at WalMart are properly called "WalMart customers". References to the "poor of this country" are either made by the very rich, who deem themselves aristocrats, or by members of the lower middle class, who fear to be lumped with the poor. This estemed social group has always provided recruits for various brown shirt movements. You know the type, I guess, the ones who rally around the flag, sing patriotic songs and forever advise liberals, intellectuals, foreigners and gays to "get a life". No, thank you, my dear …

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