Sound Off!: September 2007

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Hope

Subject: Intellectual Book Burning in a Totalitarian Democracy

I have been wondering when someone would step forth to point out this assault on the First Amendment. Unless I have missed a protest somewhere, yours is the first except for one previous lonely letter to the editor of "The Daily Regress". You did it articulately and eloquently.

Let us hope that the "UVA community" responds as they should with support for this young man, and condemnation of those who would stifle his right to free speech. I'll bet Martin Luther King would be in this young man's corner, because he was intelligent enough to understand what Woolard was trying to say in his cartoon!

--Gary L.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

No Kidding

Subject: Intellectual Book Burning in a Totalitarian Democracy

Regarding intellectual book burning, no kidding. As an editor of a community newspaper, I have come into a number of journalistic scuffles with both readers and the much larger city newspaper here for featuring articles that poke at the soft white underbelly of our community. Being even the slightest bit politically incorrect raises a vicious influx of letters to the editor, not to mention braying phone calls from irate, slack-jawed, mongoloid hausfraus. The respondents resort to name calling, character assassination and threaten to organize advertising boycotts of our paper if we don't step to the beat of their drummer. It makes me sick.

--Editor

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Respect

Subject: It's a Constitutional Republic, But Can We Keep It?

I agree with your argument in principle and the need to respect and protect our 51 US constitutions, especially our national one. Our system has worked very well for all of our people for two centuries plus and is the envy of the world. But, we have to qualify those important principles by the present need to protect our people from the active realistic world-wide Islamist threat--by appropriate measures that are sunsetted, reasonably focused on likely targets,under review by Congress, and reasonably controlled by authorized courts, taking timing factors into account.

All the best,

John M.