You just support the other commitees and coalition.

God forbid that the priestley caste should ever be forced from their protective moat and field comments and questions from the “little guy” - us slobs, the great unwashed. That must be avoided at all cost. We don’t have journalism degrees, for God’s sakes.

Like the Catholic church, at the height of its authoritarian worst excesses, comments or questions from the pews were verboten.

The last thing that the MSM wants is comments from us. The carefully selected one or two per topic letters to the editor is as good as they permit.

Unedited comments, the unwashed challenging their premises and facts, the MSM would rather go broke. And, thank God, will.

I’ll tell you why (IMO) they don’t have a blog with comments.

Because then some “pipsqueak” (one of the hoi polloi) would ask these esteemed (pompous), oft-quoted (pontificating), experienced commenters (old gasbags) to be clear instead of ambiguous and specific instead of general.

They’d rather stroke their beards and click their tongues on Russert. A NY Times ad is good for that.

It turned a blind eye to oppression in favor of short term risk reduction and a perception of stability. It was a product of the cold war, and has become dangerously irrelevant.

The unifying element shared by all mankind is a desire for liberty.

In short: Freedom sells, it is something we can all agree on.

I will grant the realists some rear guard butt covering, but it is non-productive to look backward for direction, in my opinion.

Hint: there is no but after “The spread of liberty and human rights worldwide will increase security for everyone”

So why use “but”, when “at the same time” would have worked so much better? Because, I’d argue, the authors of this statement aren’t mainly concerned with making a strong statement. Their true goal is dissent against the Bush administration. The whole *meaning* of the statement is not what comes after “but”. *The whole essence and intent of it is the “but” itself.* (No giggling, please, this is serious.) With that qualifier, it’s evident they care less about what they believe, and more about how different they are from the current administration. “Framing” themselves, as it were, in opposition. Defining themselves by what they’re not.

Contrary to impression, George Lakoff hasn’t done a goddamn thing for these people.

That aside, this looks like a short lived movement. Too many in government really like partisanship.

Lin B.

When I even see some of the names on the 9/11 Commission, I think “oh no, the Weepy Widows” have returned. That group that made themselves into straight political hacks……..not the group that is fighting so hard to stop the “blame America” crowd’s Ugly American Monument.

So I guess I won’t sign up to give full support to that Sacred UN. That is what this is, isn’t it? Nice package.

http://www.falange.us/perplexed.htm

Try changing the word “but” to “and” and see how it reads. Things seem a bit more gray and problematic … black and white is so much easier.

There are always competing values at stake when we struggle with freedom and personal rights versus collective dangers. This, I believe, is why America is growing much more uneasy with the “for me or against me”, “black and white” ideology that both political extremes seem to find necessary. Hope we can have real debate versus spin.

A laundry list of positions does not amount to a philosophy.

With the human race out to destroy itself, I hope they can make some progress. The PSA site says, “To heighten public awareness of and support for a bipartisan national security and foreign policy;
To bring leading Democrats and Republicans together to seek common ground in national security and foreign policy; and To accomplish the above tasks through the use of the most effective tools of modern communications.” I think a blog could be an effective tool for modern communications. I never saw a blog that you would have to wait months for. They have a budget for ads in the NY Times and the blog isn’t ready yet. What’s it take to set up a blog? Like 3 minutes and it is free at that! Go figure this one out. Maybe they’ll have a blog with no comment posting like Current TV.

It says, “Thanks for your interest in the Partnership for a Secure America blog. This page is currently under construction. We expect that this page will be fully operational on November 15, 2005. Please revisit this page then.”

A blog is easy to create and deploy and may be more effective than an online petition. Now we have new blogs that we have to wait for. Don’t hold your breath until November 15, 2005. It would make sense to compliment a petition with a blog, but who cares about what makes sense?

Save the whales!