LOCKSTEP WITH THE STUPID
"Handcuffed" (Cover Story, by Wayne Garcia, Feb. 15-21) seems focused on race and drug issues, with only the passing mention of the fact that "minorities" are "more likely" to vote Democrat, skipping over the fact that Jeb Bush and his mistress Katherine Harris not only implemented draconian laws to keep registered and likely Democrats from having their voting rights restored, but also resorted to thoroughly illegal tactics such as "purging" from the voting roles even those felons who had already had their rights restored, and falsely identifying "minorities" and registered Democrats as felons who had nothing more than a speeding ticket to their name.
This is not about felons. This is about the lengths to which the family and friends of the self-declared dictator-wanna-be will go in order to hold onto their power to steal the rest of us blind. (See also "school vouchers," in which John Ellis "FIB!" Bush is still using every dirty trick he can find to divert our tax dollars for our children's education to his religio-whacko buddies and their wealthy tax-exempt "churches," the same crowd that made such a putrid spectacle of Terry Schiavo while hundreds of children entrusted to the crime cartel Bush has made of Lawton Chiles' DCF are missing and pretty much presumed dead. See also "Mr. Education's" adamant refusal to implement the class-size-limit law that was advocated by a dozen nationwide studies, overwhelmingly approved by the voters, and to which he has been desperately using his "devious plans" — his own words.)
This is about the fact that educated and informed people oppose the Bush Crime Cartel and everything they stand for, and the Bush Crime Cartel will therefore do everything in its power to prevent educated and informed people from voting.
If you don't want to be declared a felon, you must march in lockstep with the stupid. Until the busheviks are impeached and imprisoned for their crimes, no one who is honest is safe.
Dian Hardison
Via e-mail
MASS INSANITY
Reading John Sugg's column ("Cartoon Villains," Feb. 15-21) the other day, two things occurred to me. 1. Mr. Sugg has never had any significant relationships (platonic or intimate) with Muslims. 2. Lacking any legitimate argument, he resorted to a broad mixture of "code" words, apparently hoping to at least persuade the underinformed that the mass insanity being played out night after night is somehow justifiable.
I lived in the shadows of Muslim terrorism for nearly 10 years, as they courageously bombed kindergartens and restaurants. The violent fanatics actually believe that they are superior to infidels, and this translates into actions that normally they would consider sinful, but because the victims are infidels, it's justifiable.
Why not take a few copies of your newspaper, book Sugg on a flight to one of those Islamic theocracies, and see how well he will be received.
Jeffrey M. Letter
St. Petersburg
TOONED IN
I want to nominate John Sugg for the 2006 Dhimmi Award for his commentary on the Danish Cartoon Conspiracy to Provoke Otherwise Peaceable Muslims. Obviously this brouhaha has nothing to do with preserving press freedom or freedom of expression, the basic tenets of liberal democracy, and everything to do with a diabolical neo-con plot to piss off the ragheads. There could be no other plausible reason for the Danish editor to interview Daniel Pipes other than to coordinate their nefarious scheme. Reading the comments posted at Sugg Blog I also see John has now attracted Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites, too. Nice going, John. Every day I become more convinced that the paranoid style in politics described by Richard Hofstadter in 1962 now is solidly entrenched on the left of the political spectrum. In typically paranoid fashion, they don't notice their pathology, assume it's normal ("reality-based") and eventually discover that the Jews (i.e. Israelis, Zionists, Straussians, neo-cons, men named Pipes and Perle and Wolfowitz) are responsible for the ills rampant in the world.
Ray Zacek
Tampa
MOVING ON
I think Max Linsky is a perfect example of the new St. Petersburg/Tampa resident (Urban Explorer, "Bay to Bay," by Max Linsky, Feb. 15-21). They move here looking for an interesting job, nice weather, etc. Instead they will find mediocre to downright underpaid jobs, and an inflated real estate market making what was a normal cost of living place into someplace where if you make less than $20,000 a year you should be making plans to move somewhere else so you can afford to live.
The same 10 movies showing in every movie house and all of them bad. Don't like The Dukes of Hazzard? How 'bout Four Brothers, the new Lindsay Lohan, the latest TV remake or a hilarious family comedy about 10 kids under the same roof?
Less than two years later, they'll leave, but don't be alarmed, Chamber of Commerce — there's always an influx of unhappy people from places like San Francisco where cost of living is so insane that this area seems like a downright bargain. Until they get a job here and find it's definitely not.
Bob Meier
St. Petersburg
EDITOR'S NOTE: Max actually kind of liked it here, but we'll pass on your note to make sure he doesn't come back.
This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2006.
