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What exactly are the protesters protesting?
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Updated: Apr. 10, 2012 | 9:14 a.m.
To the editor:
After watching the coverage of the protests that were held in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, I was both proud to be an American and confused by the comments made by some of the protesters.
Many said they had gone to D.C. from around the country to "take their freedoms back" from the government and the Obama administration. A curious thing to say, considering that these folks were able to travel unimpeded through various states to get to their destination.
They were able to assemble peacefully and voice their opposition to government policies without fear of persecution or prosecution.
They carried signs, some insulting and others downright crude (depictions of Mr. Obama as Hitler or the Joker) without being hauled off to jail or attacked on the street by "jack-booted thugs."
Others, given occurrences at recent town hall gatherings, probably carried firearms without worry.
Some carried signs saying that Mr. Obama is converting the United States into a fascist nation. Really?
I wonder if any of these fine Americans can tell me precisely which "freedoms" they lost and need to "take back."
Joel Rector
NORTH LAS VEGAS
Alarm bells
To the editor:
The U.S, Department of Education's distribution of a lesson plan for all public schools to use in conjunction with President Obama's online back-to-school talk was more than a "ham-handed" operation of little or no consequence, as you assert ("President Obama and education," Sept. 13 editorial).
Indeed, it was consistent with the Obama administration's current use of federal stimulus money to blackmail states into adopting national education standards and tests currently under construction by a coalition of academics and Washington lobbyists. According to regulations published this summer in the Federal Register, states must adopt these standards and aligned tests (amounting to a national curriculum), or else forfeit billions of dollars of federal aid.
Once all these tools of nationalization are in place, federal lesson plans will be commonplace.
The set that accompanied the president's seemingly innocuous speech was a precursor, which should be setting off alarm bells.
Robert Holland
CHICAGO
THE WRITER IS SENIOR FELLOW FOR EDUCATION POLICY AT THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE.
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R.J. promoting another Right Wing loon?
This Chef Holland of the Chicago 'Obama Swiftboaters' takes a little facts, mixes it with some fiction and stirs in a little lewd innuendo for effect.
Why would this paper print a letter from a Winger Nut Job from out of town over the hometown ones?
Why would this paper print anything about public education from a Far Right Libertarian Lobbying group who helped create the disastrous "No Child Left Behind Act"?
Wake Up Conservatives!
Wingers think their base is gullible and better off Fearful and DELUSIONAL!
It will only take you a few minutes and a Library card to figure out the connection between the "R.J." and the 'closet supremacists' doing business as The "Heartland" Institute!
TO Stoke Fear, Promote Misconceptions and Embrace Hypocrisy!
That's seems to be the mission of this paper's Editorial Board.
Where Have The Real Conservatives Gone?
Has the whole party been hijacked by the Far Right?
How many local citizen letters were disregarded for this hack job?
Oh, whats the use? It's like trying to reason with a doorknob.
Why call them Delusionals??????
I just read where a Winger here is decrying the Obama administration for causing harm to "people who can barely afford to buy tires for their cars", and then HE accuses Democrats of being "deceitful hypocrites".
I, uh....well, uh...... Oh forget it!
It would be pointless to debate you tommy!
All I can say is:
Go get your gun, tommy! Somebody is at your door trying to give you free Dental Care!
Sublimate: Pronunciation: \ˈsə-blə-ˌmāt\ Function: transitive verb: to divert the expression of (a desire or impulse) from its unacceptable form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable. To divert the energy associated with (an unacceptable impulse or drive) into a personally and socially acceptable activity.
"They carried signs, some insulting and others downright crude (depictions of Mr. Obama as Hitler or the Joker)".
Is much of this behavior the expression of sublimated racism by folks who simply cannot abide the fact that a black man is President?
Tommy is a liar.
Tommy is a liar.
Tommy is a liar.
His very first post referenced the entire category of "tires." The entire category of tires.
After we then proved the idiocy of Tommy, he backpedaled and narrowed his statement to "Chinese tires" but only, only, only after he was corrected by your's truly.
Just review the history below and witness the desperate bobbing and weaving of yet another con who cannot lead, but can only mislead.
Tommy. Can you hear me? Tommy? Tommy?