-hilary gardiner.

Since you obviously don’t understand the point I’m trying to make with my letters, please allow me to elaborate:

Your opinions are not the issue here; it is the manner in which you present them. You’ll notice that Ms. Goodman, in her recent column, “Innocent, even when proven guilty,” seems to hold a similar opinion as you on the Guantanamo Detainees situation. You’ll also notice, I hope, that her column lacks the inane tangents, the ad hominem arguments, and right-winged stock phrases that your column is riddled with.

By including such garbage in your column, you are inviting criticism of this form. Why should I spend time arguing against your actual point when it is so clear that you have no understanding of the subject.

I didn’t even bother to comment on your column on global warming because you so obviously misrepresented the facts that there was almost no argument to be had. Luckily, a number of more dedicated readers pointed out the flaws in a more thorough (and serious) manner then I would have.

Mr. Perry, these are serious issues that deserve serious contemplation. By oversimplifying these issues in such a negligent fashion, you do nothing to actual solve the problems; instead, you just perpetuate the mindlessness that caused most of these problems to begin with.

Alan R Levin

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“In his column, he states that, “any chance above zero is a chance I’m not willing to take.” A noble concept, but everyone must realize that, not only is this impossible to achieve, but attempting such a feat would mean a virtual elimination of civil liberties.”

You can have a 0 percent chance of these people conducting a terrorist attack here if they are not here. Obviously i wasnt talking about someone else already being here potentially carrying out a terrorist attack.

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“He also denounces Amherst for debating and approving “resolutions such as urging the United States to use diplomacy and avoid military action against Iran, opposing genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan.” I’ve always said that opposing genocide is a gateway to allowing terrorist attacks…”

Yeah you’re right. No way terrorists would ever attack innocent americans who arent proponents of genocide. They would never do something like that. That’s one of the first things terrorists take into consideration before they blow up buildings and subway cars, “where does the local government in this area stand on genocide in darfur?”

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“Of course, Mr. Perry believes that people “take their ideals too far.” Again, not something I realized was a flaw.”

Well you mustve missed 9/11 when people in the name of a religion took their ideals way too far.

Again alan, i love you’re sarcasm in the letter and i love how you attempted to make me look terrible. Well done. You even got me to respond.

I think it wouldve been more effective had you actually addressed the columns main point though, which of course was what is the benefit of bringing them here.

Thanks.

“El Toro”, “La Casa.”

Animate objects are male, inanimate ones are female. Blame the Romans, this all comes from the Latin roots of our languages.

Our railroad tracks are the width of Roman chariots, and the current red/yellow/green system of traffic lights dates to kerosene lanterns and the steam railroads of yore — the 72 character line in computer applications comes from the 80 column IBM punch card (the first 8 columns were needed for something else).

At some point, we need to have some sort of order lest we have total anarchy — why can’t I drive on the left side of the road???