Some one who grew to understand that evil had been elected to high office in this country - and the media that exposed it was WaPo - a very sad day has come. The editorial titled “Assault on an Ally” attacks the Dems for their refusal to support a criminal regime because they are friends with the maladministration.
The comments to the editorial are far more knowledgeable than the editorial is. And yesterday’s news was full of the finding of bodies of the victims of the militias carrying out the various factions’ goals which extensive aid from the U.S. has not been brought to bear on.
I am going to put up here a valuable and informed comment from WaPo, and think you readers do well to see what is real which is not making an impression on that no longer viable media organ. Though its reporters are excellent, its editorial board is ignorant.
Labour activists killed in Colombia We have decided to defend ourselves undertaking a well planned military operation to once and for all locate, exterminate, disappear and finish off this trade union cell. Threat sent to the Trade Union Congress offices in Santander Department by the Bloque Central BolÃvar army-backed paramilitary group. Colombia: aramilitaries Power Threatens Democracy Congressional Testimony on Democracy, Human Rights, and US Policy towards Colombia So, if you take the time to educate ourself, youll see that in fact the Democrats are unwilling to enter into a free trade arrangement
with a country that allows death squads to handle their internal labor disputes. Good thing too, we cant really compete with a country where you get murdered for asking for a raise or decent working conditions. As recently as February of this year a Columbian labor organizer was kidnapped and murdered by the government. I think this farce has gone far enough, arguments in favor of the agreement are vapid and unsurprisingly lacking in factual substantiation, much like the editorial I am responding too. I know the editorial board of the WaPo is comprised of over-compensated lard bottoms who dont have a care for the oppression, persecution or murder of other human beings, but are we really going to let these human pigs lead us to betray the people they exploit? Are we really going to join them in impoverishing ourselves as well as the Columbian people? I wont. Id ask you to join me.
By dijetlo | May 6, 2007 11:28:46 AM | Request RemovalI just discovered WaPo wont let you post a hyper-link to demonstrates their morally bankrupt sophism. How unsurprising. Take a look at Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International to get the story. Dont bother with the WaPo and its editorial board, they are just too busy quivering over the opportunity the further exploit both the US workers, as well as their Columbian counter-parts,
to bother with facts or reality. Republicans want to trade with murderers, but then again, who else with even talk to them? Birds of a feather, after all.
Colombians leave their country every day to come here illegally so that they can live. It isn’t just the wages, it’s the conditions. The kind of ignorance this editorial demonstrates is making the illegal immigration problem daily more serious in the U.S.
(Posted also at cabdrollery.)
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Vermont. The Rutland VT Herald as a matter of fact. Regrettably it is unsigned, but that indicates it’s a locally-written editorial, since if it was a syndicated item it would have to have the writer’s name on it. Try this sample, from one of the few examples I can think of in which historically analogy is carefully and accurately applied:
The writer is him/herself quoting another writer, of a recent book on political events of another era. But the whole piece is just spectacularly well done…shoo. Go read.