Comments on: A Little Last Minute Post http://locative.myvelodrome.org/2008/02/12/a-little-last-minute-post/ class blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:40:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: ktucker http://locative.myvelodrome.org/2008/02/12/a-little-last-minute-post/#comment-26 ktucker Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:39:53 +0000 http://locative.myvelodrome.org/2008/02/12/a-little-last-minute-post/#comment-26 If you read Naomi Wolf's book "The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Yound Patriot" you might think differently about American ideals and freedoms that our government is supposed to preserve. She may be an insistent and passionate speaker because she believes in her research and being a messenger, but that does not make her "damaging." Frightening might be more appropriate, but in a world where people are less sensitive and more tuned out to information, you can't blame her for fighting fire with fire. And really, what is so "damaging" and "weak" about comparing our current government to the fascist regimes of the past with valid facts? And Bruce Springsteen may not end the horror that torture is, but to laugh about anyone coming out about torture is disrespectful. Just try to laugh at someone being water boarded and think about the policies in place that allow the US government the ability to detain anyone, even you, for no reason, hold you without trial in a degraded facility miles away and torture you as an enemy combatant, without a shred of evidence that you in fact could be convicted of the crimes you are supposed held captive for. LOL. If you read Naomi Wolf’s book “The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Yound Patriot” you might think differently about American ideals and freedoms that our government is supposed to preserve. She may be an insistent and passionate speaker because she believes in her research and being a messenger, but that does not make her “damaging.” Frightening might be more appropriate, but in a world where people are less sensitive and more tuned out to information, you can’t blame her for fighting fire with fire. And really, what is so “damaging” and “weak” about comparing our current government to the fascist regimes of the past with valid facts?

And Bruce Springsteen may not end the horror that torture is, but to laugh about anyone coming out about torture is disrespectful. Just try to laugh at someone being water boarded and think about the policies in place that allow the US government the ability to detain anyone, even you, for no reason, hold you without trial in a degraded facility miles away and torture you as an enemy combatant, without a shred of evidence that you in fact could be convicted of the crimes you are supposed held captive for. LOL.

]]> By: aperritano http://locative.myvelodrome.org/2008/02/12/a-little-last-minute-post/#comment-24 aperritano Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:16:22 +0000 http://locative.myvelodrome.org/2008/02/12/a-little-last-minute-post/#comment-24 This is cool. Google is on this already this. They have the spectrum, the cell phone will come soon and then this with our gPhone will become part of our social experience as much as google maps and utube have. off topic, as far as Naomi Wolf. i checked out the 30 minute interview. She is naive to think we lost "freedoms" after 9/11 . she plays in the same fear pool as the people that make it. making her just as damaging. her arguments are weak. +the fact that we are going to be saved because "bruce springsteen came out about torture." LOL. This is cool. Google is on this already this. They have the spectrum, the cell phone will come soon and then this with our gPhone will become part of our social experience as much as google maps and utube have.

off topic, as far as Naomi Wolf. i checked out the 30 minute interview. She is naive to think we lost “freedoms” after 9/11 . she plays in the same fear pool as the people that make it. making her just as damaging. her arguments are weak. +the fact that we are going to be saved because “bruce springsteen came out about torture.” LOL.

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