by
Alan Myerson
09/09/2006
The following was printed in the Culver City
News "Readers Letters" dated August
31 2006
In response to Carl Hampton’s column about
the overwrought, incompetent, corrupt and
bloated Departments of Homeland Security and
its consequences (Aug. 17 “Your Money
Matters”), Martha Doran (Aug. 24 Letters)
begins “Yikes! I just finished the
over-the-top, paranoid political rant…by
Carl Hampton. There is so much wrong here I
almost don’t know where to start, but I’ll
try.” I have to agree with the exception
being that the over-the-top paranoid political
rant belongs to Ms. Doran-not to Mr. Hampton.
Arguing with Hampton’s point that we have
suffered “the complete erosion of our civil
liberties,” Ms. Doran suggests that were it
not for the Department of Homeland Security we
would “no longer hold free and open
elections for government officials…No longer
[be] able to congregate and demonstrate freely
in public…No longer [be] able to
worship…when, and where we choose,” etc.
First, as for free and open elections, she
might want to check out the monumental voter
fraud in Ohio, New Mexico, and other states in
the last national election.
Second, as for the ability to demonstrate
freely in public, has she not seen the phony
“free speech zones” set up for
demonstrator’s miles from the objects of
their demonstrations? Or the many
demonstrators who have been hustled out of
public spaces when they have tried to express
their disagreements with the Bush
Administration and their supporters?
And as for the ability to worship… “when,
and where we choose,” perhaps she should
check with the Muslim communities about her
accuracy in that regard.
Superciliously, she went on to suggest that
Mr. Hampton will next “whine” about not
being able to “drive his car 120 m.p.h. on
the freeway” or “blast rap music at 2
am” from “loud speakers on the top of his
house.” Ms. Doran is confused here—this
time between civil liberties which we are
supposedly guaranteed and irresponsible
personal behavior which we are not. I am
grateful for thinking and serious patriots
like Mr. Hampton and am afraid of extremist
zealots like Ms. Doran.
Alan Myerson
Culver City
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