There must exist a Fear and Loathing Tool
Box from which ultra-conservatives pull damnation gizmos. Susan
LeVay put her hand in it and wrote July 14's Soapbox calling for
"Real Americans to make Sacrifices against Muslims and
Liberals."
LeVay begins her pitch with the appeals
Salmon P. Chase allegedly received in 1776 to recognize the
deity on the U.S. coin. Chase was born in 1808, and was
Lincoln's Treasury secretary.
Her liberal bashing is vague, yet so virulent
that it smacks of hysteria. "Blame liberals for everything" and
"Liberals are evil" inanity should be put out to pasture with
that other red herring: "Have you or anyone you know ever been a
member of the Communist Party?" By now, most people know that
any accusation of fault for malfeasance is aimed at the Bush
administration, not America. I'll acknowledge there are liberal
"Bush haters," but there's no such thing as liberal "America
haters."
LeVay's second target uses facts cropped
from a blogger on JihadChat.com, going into that hole where
there is no history and no editorial oversight. The quote of the
radical cleric were the words of H. Rap Brown, the former Black
Panther, at a rally in Cambridge, MD in 1967. Brown is now a
Muslim, but he did not speak those words at UCLA two days before
9/11:
www.foxnews.com/.
The Coloradoan may have sunk to a new low
by publishing a piece so filled with error and more importantly,
one that is a veiled threat against fellow residents.
Ann Ruddy,
Fort Collins
originally
published in the
Fort Collins
Coloradoan