[CLUE-Talk] Traitors, Cowards, Scoundrels, and Intelligent Dissenters

[Jeffery Cann]

David,

I'll take the put up or shut up challenge!  :-)

Your President started the us/them rhetoric when he said:

"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."  just after 9/11.  
Seems pretty cut-and-dry there, doesn't it?  What about those of us who are 
not 'with' the President or the terrrorists?  I suppose we are all 
terrorists, but the President's "logic".

Want some more quotes from other conservatives?

Ari Fleischer warned that "all Americans" should "watch what they say."  
Attorney General Ashcroft said that those who complained of lost liberties 
during the war on terror "aid terrorists" by giving "ammunition to America's 
enemies and pause to America's friends."

When Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle expressed sadness that Bush's failure 
to find a diplomatic solution was finally leading to war, House Speaker 
Dennis Hastert said Daschle had come "mighty close" to giving "comfort" to 
the enemy. 

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, more bluntly told the South Dakota 
Democrat to shut his mouth. "Fermez la bouche, Monsieur Daschle!" he snapped, 
equating Daschle's criticism with France's efforts to block a war resolution 
in the United Nations. 

CBS warned musicians not to protest against the war (before the war) at the 
Grammys.  Last week, Clear Channel (our favorite local radio monopoly) barred 
protest groups from distributing literature at an Ani DiFranco concert in New 
Jersey -- and threatened to pull the plug on DiFranco or anyone else who made 
antiwar comments from the stage.

Is this enough evidence?

Perhaps you can see why some of us who do not agree with the President get 
upset at such inflammatory statements made by him and other conservative 
politicians.

Later,
Jeff

-- 
Life is a tie. In the end, no one wins. 
 -- Oswald Neimo