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'Chronicle' Shines a Beacon of Truth
RECEIVED Mon., Feb. 27, 2012
Dear Editor,
I share Max Gallegos' alarm [“Postmarks,” Feb. 24] over the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act with odious, anti-libertarian measures attached. I sent letters to my U.S. Rep. and two senators who replied that the offending language had been removed. I sent replies asking them to read the bill again, as passed, and they once again said there was nothing there.
Michael Ventura's columns [“Letters at 3am”] do more than condemn President Obama as a premeditated liar, in that it is now known that the language that he publicly opposed was inserted by Sen. Carl Levin at Obama's request. Ventura's equally significant finding is that not one of the mainstream media outlets reported this fact, though they had to have known the truth. The Chronicle shines as a beacon of truth.
In the 1920s Walter Lippmann wrote a book which declared that scientific means were available that would allow political insiders, the "governing class,” working with the cooperation of mass media, to make all policy decisions no matter who was elected by voters. He appears to have been correct. The difference between Democrats and Republicans is less than the difference between Marlboros and Winstons. Voters should avoid all of these toxins.
I share Max Gallegos' alarm [“Postmarks,” Feb. 24] over the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act with odious, anti-libertarian measures attached. I sent letters to my U.S. Rep. and two senators who replied that the offending language had been removed. I sent replies asking them to read the bill again, as passed, and they once again said there was nothing there.
Michael Ventura's columns [“Letters at 3am”] do more than condemn President Obama as a premeditated liar, in that it is now known that the language that he publicly opposed was inserted by Sen. Carl Levin at Obama's request. Ventura's equally significant finding is that not one of the mainstream media outlets reported this fact, though they had to have known the truth. The Chronicle shines as a beacon of truth.
In the 1920s Walter Lippmann wrote a book which declared that scientific means were available that would allow political insiders, the "governing class,” working with the cooperation of mass media, to make all policy decisions no matter who was elected by voters. He appears to have been correct. The difference between Democrats and Republicans is less than the difference between Marlboros and Winstons. Voters should avoid all of these toxins.
Sincerely,
Vince May
Vince May
