Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor 9/11 Conspiracy I used to read your magazine. I used to subscribe to it. You will never, ever get my money again. You have proven your allegiance to bad journalism and the...
...Who would come forward after such carnage...
...And last, but not least, read the book Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer...
...But I guess this all doesn't matter to such a "progressive" magazine...
...We can already count on Sean Hannity and the usual chorus of rightwing fascist parrots for that...
...Letters may be e-mailed to: editorial@progressive.org Please include your city and state...
...She can watch a documentary about Cuba's revolution, Fidel Castro, or the poetic movie by a Soviet director, Yo Soy Cuba...
...Even Jack Bauer does better than that...
...If a threat is sufficiently grave that you torture someone, you should be willing to go to prison for the actions you took to meet that threat...
...All letters may be edited fror clarity and conciseness, and may appear either in the magazine or on its web page...
...Without 9/11 truth, we will never get out of Iraq or the Middle East, and Bush will never be impeached...
...It is the key to stopping the occupation of Iraq and future attacks and invasions (possibly nuclear) of Iran, Syria, and North Korea...
...He dedicated several sections to Cuba's history...
...He accepts that he can go to jail...
...People have always conspired, and ridicule has always been heaped on those who voice their suspicions, whether reasonable or otherwise...
...She has the courage to say what is needed to be said about this Administration...
...Edward G. Robles Franklin, North Carolina To argue either side of conspiracy theories is at once a tragic, and ultimately pathetic, distraction...
...Mike Wiese St...
...I expect this kind of narrow-minded policy from the nationalist zealots in the Republican Party, but I guess any hope for open-mindedness in the party that runs on promises of fairness and equality will have to wait until the election season has ended...
...It is absolutely shameful when a so-called progressive magazine like yours shouts down people who question the official story of September 11, 2001...
...What George W Bush and his cohorts want is routine torture, torture without legal consequence for the torturers...
...Sensible people know they can use 24 for guilty pleasure, but not as a model for counterterrorism...
...There are also a fair number of torture victims wandering around from earlier 24 episodes who would be, were 24 realistic, plotting revenge...
...I urge Molly to learn more about this tiny island's history...
...Molly might note that there are no billionaires in Cuba-they are all in Miami, voting for Bush...
...This country has existed for 230 years because we have accepted diversity in people and customs, not by pandering to extreme nationalist pressure from the political right...
...Cuba was our playground...
...Andy Schmidt Granger, Indiana Though I'm not a faith-based believer, I can't help but tie the Project for the New American Century's reference to a new Pearl Harbor, the seeming determination of a few key players to ignore or suppress assiduously compiled reports, warnings, and suggested actions, and-voila-9/11...
...When Fidel retires, there will be dedicated representatives ready to carry forward the revolutionary gains of the past forty-seven years...
...I'd like to add two cruder points...
...As an American-born citizen, I am embarrassed once again by the actions taken in our name by this government, and I apologize to all the non-English-speaking people in this country...
...I suggest you print another article on this topic by a real journalist, one who dares to ask serious questions and doesn't rely on FEMA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Hearst for the answers...
...First, Jack Bauer on 24 has personally tortured at least one wrong person and has murdered at least one witness who was the only lead to a dangerous conspiracy...
...Aliete Antunes via e-mail The editors welcome correspondence from readers on all topics, but prefer to publish letters that comment directly on material previously published in The Progressive...
...Richard D. Erlich Oxford, Ohio Molly Doesn't Know Fidel When Molly Ivins wrote, "We could have and should have made friends with Fidel Castro decades ago," she was right ("Fidel, You Ol' Fart," October issue...
...J. Washburn Minneapolis, Minnesota Accept Other Languages I agree with Luis Rodr?guez's column "Press 1 for English" (September issue...
...The "false flag" authors appeal to elementary physics, while you resorted to ad hominem attack and vilification and shed no light on the subject...
...However, her latest column in The Progressive disappointed me...
...Charles, Illinois Ticking Ethics Thank you for Alfred W McCoy's insightful and nuanced article, "The Myth of the Ticking Time Bomb" (October issue...
...This is just more evidence that the Democrats feel it is more important to get reelected than to stand on principle...
...Fidel is a great figure in Cuba's history...
...I really never expected The Progressive to join the lockstep of apologists for the Bush Administration and try to "debunk" the discussion of 9/11...
...The "otherwise" tends to delegitimize the "reasonable...
...Abusing a small country of eleven million people because of the threat of a good example belittles America, and allowing Jesse Helms to determine our foreign policy denigrates the USA worldwide...
...We are spurred on by our leaders to believe that we are so insecure in our identity as a nation that we need laws institutionalizing English as the official language...
...This issue, 9/11 truth, is the most important issue of our time...
...The Administration let 9/11 happen...
...You have proven your allegiance to bad journalism and the military-industrial complex with Matthew Rothschild's incredibly ignorant essay about 9/11 ("Enough Conspiracy Theories, Already," Books, October issue...
...Sue Saunders via e-mail I usually agree with Molly Ivins...
...After all, the occurrences of that dark day have led to the difficult times in which we find ourselves...
...That so many Democratic Senators abandoned their principles to vote for English as the official language is not much of a surprise...
...Far more seriously, the figuratively ticking bomb argument is simply bullshit in terms of straightforward ethics...
...Doesn't it seem more than plausible that there was a plan, not intricate and organized, but one of inaction...
...Paul Snodgrass Chillicothe, Illinois Amazing...
...He liberated Cuba from the claws of the United States...
...The political powerbrokers continue to use race, language, cultural differences, and fear to divide and isolate people...
...Our glorious avenging leaders are arrogant, incompetent, and quite willing to sacrifice many thousands to further their perverse ideologies...
Vol. 70 • November 2006 • No. 11
