Using the Traditional Method to be Heard
I used the old-fashioned method of getting heard, by placing an op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution responding to recent comments made by Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh about the Abu Ghraib prison.
Just learned that there is a complicated set of procedures to get into to the AJC website. Why make it almost impossible to attact readers? Well, they have.
If you want to read it, you can at my blog for rants. BiggerBrain.
May 11th, 2004 at 2:35 pm
Len does a good job of countering the idea that this was the equivalent of a fraternity prank. However, I question the use of “anti-American” and, implicitly, “American” or “pro-American,” in the piece. He says that failing to speak out in protest is “anti-American.” That implies that speaking out, protesting, telling the truth, is somehow “American.” This nationalist rhetoric reinforces the mythology of the US as a land of peace and freedom, which is spreading these “American” values around the world. Of course, this idea is precisely what needs to be opposed. We need to be fully unmasking America’s imperialist aims in Iraq, not covering them up.