Treason's Greetings

Hopefully the latter half of this excerpt speaks for itself.

On the Thursday before Christmas, Al Neuharth, former Gannett bigwig and founder of USA Today, suggested in his weekly column for that newspaper that the U.S. should start bringing home our troops from Iraq "sooner rather than later."

Yet, our brief article about the Neuharth column (which did not endorse his position) got linked at numerous other Web sites, and drew more letters than virtually any story we have ever posted. We presented a few excerpts from those letters, pro and con, in a second article on Dec. 24, but we did not quote from some of the nastiest--and, believe me, there were plenty in that category to choose from.

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Mel Gibbs: "The Patriot Act will put both of you (Neuharth and Mitchell) on trial for treason and convict and execute both of you as traitors for running these stories in a time of war and it should be done on TV for other communist traitors like you two to know we mean business. This is war and you should be put in prison NOW for talking like this. Who the hell do you people think you are? You give aid and comfort to our enemies and aid them in murdering our proud soldiers. You people are a disgrace to America. Your families should be put in prison with you, then be made to leave and move to the Middle East ...This is a great Christian nation and god wants us to lead the world out of darkness with great leaders like President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Communists like Al and Greg will soon be in prison and on death row for your ugly papers. We won the election and now you are mad. We own America and all the rights, you people are trash, go back to Russia and Africa and take your friends with before we put you on death row after a fair trial."

>> Source [Editor & Publisher]

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How nice, questioning amounts to treason, as is having a view that does not conform to that of our infallible leaders.

But, of course, it's a matter of opinion. As is the harsh quote cited.

Should the media ignore any American wrong doing for the sake of propoganda meant to inundate the sheep at home and the service personel abroad with unwavering confidence (personally I'd call it self-arrogance) for the sake of "defeating the enemy", or should the media remain what it is meant to be (but not %100 sound at being) - an information outlet that states the facts no matter who or what organizations it might harm, discredit, or support. (both forms would / are selective in what appear in headlines and on newscasts and such)