Posted at NoQuarter 6/20/06

Hi, Larry. Stay feisty! I, on the other hand, am about out of juice. Consider this: POTUS says we're in a War on Terror. Yet he trots around, posturing, fund-raising for his buddies. I am beyond despair, approaching apathy. I can hear the drumbeat of the 'net roots', and I can be thankful that there are thoughtful people like yourself taking the 'point' in this advance. But I feel powerless, and worse. I feel as if, knowing what I know, I am being the world's biggest coward by not grabbing my torch and pitchfork and walking across the country to confront the fascists that run the country. But here I am, afraid that the NSA is gonna 'find' something in my communications that will let them put me away, just for feeling desperate! I don't even rate Cowardly Lion status. At least you stand up to them. Those people the other day who harrangued you for the comment on Rove. . . even they have more guts than me. You don't see me wandering over to the right side and blasting the bastards for their lies. You don't hear me calling up Limbaugh to excoriate him for his lies. Why? Because I don't have a 'voice'. You, Larry, have a voice. People will listen to you--even people who don't want to! So, like it or not, Larry, you and Christy and Jane and John and Kos and Murray and emptywheel and the rest, YOU are going to have to carry the torches and lead the rest of us across the barricades. We are all in a perilous position in this moment. Bush has already suspended Habeas Corpus for whomever he wishes to call a 'terrorist' (just like Hitler), and declared all communications--electronic, paper, or otherwise--fair game (just like Hitler), has said that he doesn't need to listen to what the legislative branch has to say (and his 'signing statements' are tantamount to laws, in and of themselves), which is only a thread's width from saying he can make the laws without the legislative branch (just like Hitler), he's planned concentration camps and already let the (of course) no-bid contract to Haliburton, 'should the need arise' to incarcerate large numbers of illegal aliens and terrorists (just like Hitler), and changed the armed services manual to accommodate instructions as to how to build, maintain, and operate such large incarceration facilties (on, by the way, military bases). We are so close to a fascist dictatorship that I am constantly fearful. We all should be. Like Hitler, Bush has a YES congress. Like Hitler, he has a popular message--kill non-Christians, scapegoat liberals and intellectuals, and homosexuals, and keep women pregnant and quiet (where is Laura, these days? anyone know?). But I dribble on. You and your readers have encouraged me to be engaged, only to be discouraged by the enormity of the situation we face. Where to?

and then this, later that day.

Dear Liberals are oh so very deep!,
Your blindly ethnocentric assertion that assertiveness is "the human ideal" truly underlines the fundamental difference between righties and lefties. Righties don't really give a shit about anybody but themselves and their intellectual peers, while lefties advance the notion of plurality and inclusiveness. I have only one response to your diatribe: Let whomever is without sin cast the first stone, else that person be branded a hypocrite.

Which brought this in response from Liberals are oh so very deep!

"blindly ethnocentric assertion"? lol

Please don't mistake yourself for an insightful intellectual, unless you wish to continue to be an unwitting clown. Which is fine with me, if you so wish btw.

If being assertive isn't the human ideal, what is, agressiveness? To you and your laughably clueless liberal comrades, Iunderstand that it is! :)