James Bovard, the great libertarian champion of our
freedom and civil liberties, recently shared with readers his mail from
Bush supporters. For starters, here are some of the salutations:
"communist bastard," "a**hole," "a piece of trash, scum of the earth."
It goes downhill from there. Bush's supporters demand lockstep
consensus that Bush is right. They regard truthful reports that Saddam
Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and was not involved in the
Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. -- truths now firmly established by the Bush
administration's own reports -- as treasonous America-bashing. Bovard is
interpreted as throwing cold water on the feel-good, macho, Muslim
butt-kicking that Bush's invasion of Iraq has come to symbolize for his
supporters. "People like you and Michael Moore," one irate reader
wrote, "is [sic] what brings down our country." I have received similar
responses from conservatives, as, no doubt, have a number of other
writers who object to a domestic police state at war with the world. [more ]
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