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Letters to the Editor Nader's Supporters I would like to thank Ruth Conniff for her article on the Nader campaign in Madison ("Nader's Students," November issue). It was very fair overall. There...
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...Christopher Dalzell El Paso, Texas Shame on Zinn Howard Zinn's "Our War on Terrorism" (November issue) is a recipe for despair...
...But this is a juvenile cheap shot that isn't even close to being worthy of your pages...
...His claim that "no major political figure has pointed out [that] a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory" is transparently false...
...support for the oppression of Muslims by Russia, China, and India...
...However, I think you make one statement that played into the hands of Cheney and Bush...
...Pretending that it is, even potentially, an opposition party is a morass in which large parts of what passes for the left in America has allowed itself to be trapped for generations...
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...Petersburg, Florida Bin Laden's Goals "The Manipulators of 9/11" is a very good piece...
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...Matt Goins's quote comparing the Democrats to "the mafia without the killings" referred to the Democratic Party and their supporters' harassment of petition circulators...
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...policies toward the Islamic world, not to destroy the United States, which he knows he cannot accomplish...
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...Conniff's peevishness detracted from her article's serious anti-Nader message and could actually have alienated undecided young readers...
...Bill Linville Madison, Wisconsin Wisconsin Field Coordinator Nader-Camejo 2004 Ruth Conniff's article "Nader's Students" could have been more persuasive without her repeated and obviously dismissive references to the pro-Nader subjects of her interviews...
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...She sounds like a cranky senior citizen, offended by "these young people" who just won't listen to her...
...Even under the harsh conditions of holding pens and jail cells, every arrested protester that I met showed unfailing humor, kindness, and camaraderie...
...We were not acquiescing to the Democratic Party line...
...said so well, "Whenever you take a stand for truth and justice, you are liable to scorn...
...I am an opinion columnist for the Athens Banner-Herald, the daily paper here in Athens, Georgia, and was arrested in New York on August 31 while covering a protest...
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...I was simply making the point that regardless of whether Bush or Kerry was in office, we would be doing things that people should hate us for...
...He also would have continued the war on Iraq and kept the military in more than 100 different countries...
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...Roger Lindsay Minneapolis, Minnesota Nader and his student supporters missed the point...
...While Bush, et al., try to convince us our terrorism problem is who we are, bin Laden says it is because of what we do...
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...Such repressive measures underscore the need for stronger street protests...
...On Page 10 you say: "While bin Laden and Al Qaeda certainly would like to destroy the United States...
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...The New York mass arrests were just one more example of a war on dissent that has escalated under the Bush League crew...
...should shut down all its military bases abroad," was in the context of Conniff's laments about the U.S.'s standing in the world...
...Often you will be called an impractical idealist or a dangerous radical...
...He has named six clear and focused foreign policy goals: 1. The end of U.S...
...I believe I have read everything that bin Laden has said publicly...
...Greens Abroad Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Cheap Shot In "The Manipulators of 9/11" (Comment, October issue), you say that Dick Cheney "had his conscience surgically removed three decades ago...
...Was it really necessary to keep describing their T-shirts, how they "giggle" and "snort," etc...
...John Kerry was perhaps more pro-Israel than Bush and would have continued to crush the Palestinians...
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...By contrast, her faint praise for their (apparently misguided) idealism seems like an afterthought, tacked on after Howard Zinn's more levelheaded concluding comments...
...Of course, people in general, and Bush and Cheney in particular, did argue that bin Laden will accomplish these goals over our dead bodies...
...aid to, and the ultimate destruction of, Israel...
...and all Western forces from the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Muslim countries...
...The future was our main consideration...
...Sometimes it might mean going to jail...
...John Wilkins Bradfordwoods, Pennsylvania Arrested at the RNC Thanks for Marcellus Hall's article and illustrations about being arrested at the Republican Convention in New York ("Under Arrest," October issue...
...I could certainly identify with Hall's words and pictures...
...Outside of your humor columns, I don't recall past articles, even those on rightwing sleaze bags, focusing so much derisive attention on trivial details...
...They refused to acknowledge progressive pragmatism in favor of progressive idealism...
...Getting arrested during protests over the Bush Administration's repressive regime is an occupational hazard for a journalist, but it also is a badge of honor...
...As you say in your last sentence: "Fear is their trump card...
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...While David Cobb, the Green Party's candidate this year, may not be a major political figure, Ralph Nader most certainly is...
...We were all threatened at one point...
...Zinn also referred to the Democratic Party as the opposition party...
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