http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/05/03/

Jeebus.

I read a lot about how much Bruno and Matski hate Ann Coulter, and I think much of it is true. However, can you tell me that anything in the following link is not inflammatory:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0818-11.htm

Now I don’t know who Ted Rall is, and maybe he is considered a kook within the real progressive community, but I was deeply offended by his article.

How can he call the locations at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib concentration camps? These were not people who were rounded up in the streets of New York and Seattle (as Jews were rounded up in the streets of Warsaw and Paris). These were men who attacked U.S. military of their own accord. And they were not subjected to slave labor or starved or burned alive. They were given three meals a day, pointed the way towards Mecca, had Amnesty International watching over them (at Guantanamo), and in the worst abuses in Abu Ghraib, were stripped naked and photographed (and only months later are the soldiers responsible being tried).

I can’t say I want the GOP convention in New York, but that is mostly because of the expected onslaught of aggressors such as Ted Rall. My message to would-be protesters: Don’t come. You are not helping your country by yelling at officials who cannot hear you through the 10 ft thick walls of MSG, and you are only hurting the financial engine of the United States (if you think I am wrong, check out any U.S. tax form listing New York City as the top per capita contributor to federal tax coffers, and among the bottom of per capita beneficiaries of federal tax dollars).

Instead, focus your energies on making a difference. It is al well and good to complain and point out the faults of the ruling party. Instead of offering up limp candidates (Gore, Kerry), provide leadership with new solutions, not new problems. I will vote for that person.