“The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.”
-- Jacob Bronowski 1908-74: “The Face of Violence” (1954)
Lest any of you think Ann Arbor is strictly the province of leftist intellectuals out of touch with political reality, I’ve included two letters, the second of which is a response to the first, that offer a conservative aspect of A2 that many of you may be unaware of.
If Mr. Buchanan was more in touch with current events he might laud Obama’s decision to stop the release of detainee abuse photos taken at Baghram, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo. Obama’s justification for this, which I consider to be quite pathetic, is that making these images public would further inflame the terrorists. Oh really?
Even the novice student of war knows that applying logical conclusions to the irrationality of military conflict makes no sense. Believe me, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda suicide-bombers are not going to be any less suicidal for having not seen these photos.
Who does the Obameister think he’s kidding? This isn’t about domestic security, it’s about stopping an album of photos sure to reveal a narrative that documents a systemic pattern of torture authorized by the Bush administration, and not the work of a “few bad apples.” Now is the time for social justice, not governmental subterfuge. The public deserves better. We deserve the truth.
To The Ann Arbor News:
Interrogations should be free of restraints (5/8/09)
I give President Bush lots of credit for his efforts in keeping our nation safe. I only wish he could have been able to serve another term. I would feel now that with his steady hand at the helm he would continue to keep our nation safe from terrorists.
Methods used to get information from our enemies to keep our country safe should have no restraints of any kind, especially with enemies or terrorists who vow to destroy our country.
During past wars, that person who leaked or conducted any espionage with our enemies about how we were conducting our efforts to keep our country safe would be tried for treason (comes to mind Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for espionage in the 1950s). They felt they were victims of fascism. Fascism is what this country appears to be headed for under Obama, after taking a good assessment of what Obama has done during his first 100 days in office.
Neither Nixon nor Clinton committed such heinous acts as Obama has by revealing top-secret information to our enemies, nor openly consorted with them. Obama should be impeached and put on trial as a traitor to his country. According to our constitution, no American is above the law, not even the president. I’m personally for impeaching him and treating him as an enemy of this country. Amen.
Billy R. Buchanan, Saline
To The Ann Arbor News:
Re: “Interrogations should be free of restraints” (5/13/09)
The Hand at the Helm
How pleased I was to hear a kindred voice in that left-wing wilderness, Ann Arbor. For you see, Billy, like yourself and, I’m sure, our sorely missed recent president, the venerable George W. Bush (we should have abolished term limits while he was in office), I too miss his “steady hand in keeping our nation safe from terrorists,” and couldn’t agree more that our interrogation “methods” should have "no restraints.” Those misguided “fascists,” like Obama, and Porter Goss, director of the CIA, who told a Senate Intelligence Committee that “torture doesn’t work, there are better ways to deal with captives,” are indeed, “enemies of this country.” What pains me most, and I’m sure Rush and Thayrone would agree, are those yammering bleeding hearts who argue we wouldn’t want our own soldiers to be tortured. Again, I smell a fascist. But how do we answer this disturbing sign of patriotic weakness? What do we do about this fascist element amongst us? How might we rid ourselves of the left-wing pestilence infecting this great land? It’s really quite simple. We take a lesson from that most anti of anti-fascists, the great Josef Stalin. We make sure our soldiers obey the Spartan warrior ethic, either on your shield or with it. This makes the treatment of our soldiers a moot point. Since only a “traitor,” like Obama, would allow himself to be captured, whether he is tortured or not should be of no concern to “the hand at the helm.”
Randall L. Tessier
Ann Arbor, MI U.S.A.
-- Jacob Bronowski 1908-74: “The Face of Violence” (1954)
Lest any of you think Ann Arbor is strictly the province of leftist intellectuals out of touch with political reality, I’ve included two letters, the second of which is a response to the first, that offer a conservative aspect of A2 that many of you may be unaware of.
If Mr. Buchanan was more in touch with current events he might laud Obama’s decision to stop the release of detainee abuse photos taken at Baghram, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo. Obama’s justification for this, which I consider to be quite pathetic, is that making these images public would further inflame the terrorists. Oh really?
Even the novice student of war knows that applying logical conclusions to the irrationality of military conflict makes no sense. Believe me, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda suicide-bombers are not going to be any less suicidal for having not seen these photos.
Who does the Obameister think he’s kidding? This isn’t about domestic security, it’s about stopping an album of photos sure to reveal a narrative that documents a systemic pattern of torture authorized by the Bush administration, and not the work of a “few bad apples.” Now is the time for social justice, not governmental subterfuge. The public deserves better. We deserve the truth.
To The Ann Arbor News:
Interrogations should be free of restraints (5/8/09)
I give President Bush lots of credit for his efforts in keeping our nation safe. I only wish he could have been able to serve another term. I would feel now that with his steady hand at the helm he would continue to keep our nation safe from terrorists.
Methods used to get information from our enemies to keep our country safe should have no restraints of any kind, especially with enemies or terrorists who vow to destroy our country.
During past wars, that person who leaked or conducted any espionage with our enemies about how we were conducting our efforts to keep our country safe would be tried for treason (comes to mind Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for espionage in the 1950s). They felt they were victims of fascism. Fascism is what this country appears to be headed for under Obama, after taking a good assessment of what Obama has done during his first 100 days in office.
Neither Nixon nor Clinton committed such heinous acts as Obama has by revealing top-secret information to our enemies, nor openly consorted with them. Obama should be impeached and put on trial as a traitor to his country. According to our constitution, no American is above the law, not even the president. I’m personally for impeaching him and treating him as an enemy of this country. Amen.
Billy R. Buchanan, Saline
To The Ann Arbor News:
Re: “Interrogations should be free of restraints” (5/13/09)
The Hand at the Helm
How pleased I was to hear a kindred voice in that left-wing wilderness, Ann Arbor. For you see, Billy, like yourself and, I’m sure, our sorely missed recent president, the venerable George W. Bush (we should have abolished term limits while he was in office), I too miss his “steady hand in keeping our nation safe from terrorists,” and couldn’t agree more that our interrogation “methods” should have "no restraints.” Those misguided “fascists,” like Obama, and Porter Goss, director of the CIA, who told a Senate Intelligence Committee that “torture doesn’t work, there are better ways to deal with captives,” are indeed, “enemies of this country.” What pains me most, and I’m sure Rush and Thayrone would agree, are those yammering bleeding hearts who argue we wouldn’t want our own soldiers to be tortured. Again, I smell a fascist. But how do we answer this disturbing sign of patriotic weakness? What do we do about this fascist element amongst us? How might we rid ourselves of the left-wing pestilence infecting this great land? It’s really quite simple. We take a lesson from that most anti of anti-fascists, the great Josef Stalin. We make sure our soldiers obey the Spartan warrior ethic, either on your shield or with it. This makes the treatment of our soldiers a moot point. Since only a “traitor,” like Obama, would allow himself to be captured, whether he is tortured or not should be of no concern to “the hand at the helm.”
Randall L. Tessier
Ann Arbor, MI U.S.A.
2 comments:
"... kept us safe from attack since 9/11 ..." is a logical fallacy called Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, ‘after this, therefore because of this.' I myself, a resident of Oakland, CA, for 20 years, step onto my back porch each morning and scream, "Cobras, stay away." I have yet to see a cobra anywhere near my back porch in Oakland. You do the myth. (sic)
Temporal sequence is insufficient to demonstrate causation.
Dear Michael:
Spoken like a true english teacher. You know your logical fallacies well. Speaking of (sic) puns, here's one we could have told the nuns at St. Johns, that would be Pete's for you, Michael. Why didn't Moses starve to death in the Great Desert? Because of all the sand which is there.
Love - Professor Tessier
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