Re: March 22 letters by Chris Biller, “Disagree at the polls,� and Gary L. Parker, “Show of hate�:
It's difficult not to laugh when Biller and Parker chastise dissenters for being angry and for daring to speak out. We use simple slogans because most Americans can't handle complicated arguments and that's the only way to get through. How about those flip-flops, eh? Mushroom clouds? You're either with us or with the terrorists? Axis of evil? Weapons of mass destruction? War on terror? Are you afraid yet? Good. That's what they wanted and you bought it.
When elections are easily manipulated by voting machines controlled by Republican corporations and when a large majority of the public now has turned against the policies of this president, we're supposed to shut up? When a president admits that he broke the law and leaked the name of a CIA operative for political reasons, then dares to accuse the press of damaging our national security, when he openly manipulates scientific data, when he lies about social security and Katrina, when he lies about global warming and the economy, we are not going to remain silent? Get over it.
Parker accuses us of anger and he's right. We come from a long line of angry patriots who dared to speak their hearts and their fears. Do you think Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson and George Washington didn't have anger in their hearts when they founded this country, when they raved against tyranny in all it's forms, when they wrote the immortal words "We the people,� when our soldiers fought and died at Valley Forge? I doubt it.
If you're not angry, you're not paying attention. Conservatives dishonor the memories of all those who did fight to preserve our freedoms when they belittle those of us who dare to speak the truth.
— John Strubbe, Simi Valley
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