Comments on: No Truce, No Mercy, No Surrender, No Rest, No More, This Is War

By: TheOtherWA

TheOtherWA — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:49:20 +0000

Alan Grayson: We’ll put people in prison. We’ll take away the thing that they care about the most, their money.

Doesn’t he sound wonderful? We need a lot of Alan Graysons.

I have to agree with vmaverick about the prison rape comments. We shouldn’t wish that on anyone.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:45:41 +0000

Here, here. Is it really that you’re wrestling with endorsement, or wanting justice?

Personally, I’m for justice. Long, drawn out hearings, all the gory details, plenty of messy subpoenas and handcuffs and frogmarching and ultimately justice.

By: vmaverick

vmaverick — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:38:46 +0000

Spencer, I call foul. It’s entirely appropriate that these people should be brought to justice — charged, tried, convicted, imprisoned. To fantasize about the violence other prisoners will do to them, though, crosses the line. Don’t go there. Being locked up should be punishment enough — the mutual rape, torture and murder prisoners visit on each other is a tragedy, not a cockfight for our vicarious pleasure.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:28:38 +0000

The truth is that our country will be better off with more people like Alan Grayson in office. How can you not endorse?

The ‘no endorsement’ rule is a dodge used by the media to pretend they aren’t players in our political system. If you take it to its logical conclusion, like Len Downie you wouldn’t vote either.

Even if you don’t endorse, those guys will still think you’re covered in Cheetos dust.

By: Spencer Ackerman

Spencer Ackerman — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:56:43 +0000

I think I clearly take sides; the question is about endorsement.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:41:06 +0000

Tell that voice to shut up. Seriously, despite what our press culture has become, the job of a journalist has never been to be non-partisan or merely objective. Your job is to tell the truth. The truth may have a partisan outcome and it is always more than objective. When our country has been hijacked by venal, torture-loving, warmongering tyrants, the biggest lie is to remain silent. Not taking sides is an immoral choice.

Speak truth to power.