I'll just let the letter and my response do all the talking here:
The blue bird will be sitting on every Democrat's shoulder this January. The sun will be bright and everyone will be singing zippity do dah. All our troubles will be swept away. There will be no more problems because the messiah will lead us into the promised land.
Everything will be different. However, the press will still be lying, but in reverse. Now bad will be good. Nothing will be reported that will stain the hands of the leader they created. We had eight years of vile, disgusting lies about our president. Now the press have to make us think we are in the land of milk and honey. Remember how Nero played the violin as the Roman Empire burned? Now, our new zippity-do-dah president will be out there leading us into another Great Depression while the press sings a chorus praising his highness. They will continue keeping the public ill-informed.
Dave Clark
Salinas
Dear Editor, Monterey County Herald,
I am amazed at the jaw-dropping stupidity of your printing a letter that calls Barack Obama "our new zippity-do-dah president."
Obviously, you are not familiar with the Disney film Song of the South that featured the song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. The film is the only Disney feature film that has not been released on home video in the United States due to its racist characterizations of
African-Americans.
The Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris that the film was based on have long been considered racist and objectionable. These stories are the origin of the term "tar baby" and the short animated film The Tar Baby is one of three included in Song of the
South.
It is possible that the writer of this letter may not have intended this as a racial slur. However, the responsibility of keeping racist slurs -- intentional or not -- out of print belongs to you.
This can be compared to calling Obama "our watermelon-eating president" etc.
Shame on you!
Fritz Liess
Here in Connecticut, a crossdresser was changing in her van in front of her apartment and a neighbor saw her and thought she was being assaulted or abducted and called the police.
The neighbor blocked the crossdresser's vanwith their car to prevent escape and the crossdresser panicked, drove over a snow bank and fled with the neighbor following her.
The police gave chase and eventually appended her after running over spike sticks and she was charged with interfering with police, engaging police in pursuit and driving with a suspended license.
The local newspaper covered the story, publishing her name and address.
Was the neighbor right to call the police and follow her? Yes.
Was the police right in giving chase? Yes.
Was the police right in arresting her? Yes.
Was the police right in reveling how she was dressed? No.
In Connecticut, it is AGAINST the law to enter in a police report how a person was dressed unless it had a direct bearing on the case, which this did not.
The original call was about a women being abducted or assaulted and the police could have just said, “That she mistook him for a woman.” The other charges had nothing to do with the way she was dressed.
Because of the police misconduct this person may lose their job and from now on whenever you google her name you will find about this. In addition, this would have been just another traffic offense and not something that would have been sensationalized in the media.
I'll just let the letter and my response do all the talking here:
The blue bird will be sitting on every Democrat's shoulder this January. The sun will be bright and everyone will be singing zippity do dah. All our troubles will be swept away. There will be no more problems because the messiah will lead us into the promised land.
Everything will be different. However, the press will still be lying, but in reverse. Now bad will be good. Nothing will be reported that will stain the hands of the leader they created. We had eight years of vile, disgusting lies about our president. Now the press have to make us think we are in the land of milk and honey. Remember how Nero played the violin as the Roman Empire burned? Now, our new zippity-do-dah president will be out there leading us into another Great Depression while the press sings a chorus praising his highness. They will continue keeping the public ill-informed.
Dave Clark
Salinas
Dear Editor, Monterey County Herald,
I am amazed at the jaw-dropping stupidity of your printing a letter that calls Barack Obama "our new zippity-do-dah president."
Obviously, you are not familiar with the Disney film Song of the South that featured the song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. The film is the only Disney feature film that has not been released on home video in the United States due to its racist characterizations of
African-Americans.
The Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris that the film was based on have long been considered racist and objectionable. These stories are the origin of the term "tar baby" and the short animated film The Tar Baby is one of three included in Song of the
South.
It is possible that the writer of this letter may not have intended this as a racial slur. However, the responsibility of keeping racist slurs -- intentional or not -- out of print belongs to you.
This can be compared to calling Obama "our watermelon-eating president" etc.
Shame on you!
Fritz Liess
Here in Connecticut, a crossdresser was changing in her van in front of her apartment and a neighbor saw her and thought she was being assaulted or abducted and called the police.
The neighbor blocked the crossdresser's vanwith their car to prevent escape and the crossdresser panicked, drove over a snow bank and fled with the neighbor following her.
The police gave chase and eventually appended her after running over spike sticks and she was charged with interfering with police, engaging police in pursuit and driving with a suspended license.
The local newspaper covered the story, publishing her name and address.
Was the neighbor right to call the police and follow her? Yes.
Was the police right in giving chase? Yes.
Was the police right in arresting her? Yes.
Was the police right in reveling how she was dressed? No.
In Connecticut, it is AGAINST the law to enter in a police report how a person was dressed unless it had a direct bearing on the case, which this did not.
The original call was about a women being abducted or assaulted and the police could have just said, “That she mistook him for a woman.” The other charges had nothing to do with the way she was dressed.
Because of the police misconduct this person may lose their job and from now on whenever you google her name you will find about this. In addition, this would have been just another traffic offense and not something that would have been sensationalized in the media.
Each time they've (Join the Impact) organized something since that first 11 days after Prop 8 passed, however, it does seem to have less and less of that impact.Saturday's DOMA protests were held around the country with varying degrees of visibility. Mike Tidmus features several pictures from the protests in San Diego.
People were moving up and down the line with digital and video cameras, so an accurate count was nearly impossible. I watched the frustration on the face of one MSM reporter as he tried to count the marchers. There seemed to be as many people covering the event for blogs, Facebook, etc. as there were marching. Glad to be in that company.Rex Wockner does as well and reports:
San Diego took part in the Jan. 10 national day of protest against the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and against Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that re-banned same-sex marriage in California.I suppose one thing to consider when thinking of Stonewall 2.0 sizzle or fizzle, is whether it is succeeding country-wide, or only in mostly LGBT-friendly enclaves where a good crowd can be amassed. Obviously you're going to see more people well-organized in NY, LA, San Francisco, etc. than you would, say, here in NC. So it's a matter of whether size and fervor is the sole determinant of success.Reporters counted between 600 and 800 people at a march that wandered through downtown, beginning and ending at the County Administration Center. A high-ranking policeman said he counted 560.
That said, the one that was planned for Raleigh had to be called off/rescheduled because the time and location conflicted with the inaugural celebration for the incoming governor Bev Purdue; the rally will certainly have a reduced turnout when it is rescheduled since it will no longer coincide with the national action. I don't know how many other planned JTI events weren't able to be pulled off on Sat. It's hard to say since there aren't reports out from places in the hinterlands where people need to see these sorts of demonstrations to show the visibility and importance of the issues at hand.
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