Mr. Frank's Fatwah

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New Republic Calls for Death and Torture of Arundhati Roy and Stan Goff

The words "libelous" and 'the New Republic" have a proud history of walking arm-in-arm. Now, in the esteemed tradition of [former TNR writer who peddled fiction as fact] Stephen Glass, The New Republic has stooped to a new low, publishing a piece that calls for violence, torture, and even death for leading leftists who dare oppose Bush's war on terror and the slaughter in Iraq.

Author Tom Frank -- clearly from the Glass School of Journalism the New Republic has made famous -- described sitting in on an anti-war panel sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, the Washington Peace Center, the DC Anti-War Network and other groups.

After having heard the 100 plus attendees cheer sentiments like "Money for Jobs and Education Not For War and Occupation," Frank became so riled up, he unloaded a deranged harangue about the suffering he would like to rain upon people daring to organize against this war. After Stan Goff, a former Delta Forces soldier and current organizer for Military Families Speak Out, expressed sentiments like "We ain't never resolved nothing through an election," Frank's jag began. Clearly too doughy to do it himself, Frank started to fantasize about a Teutonic strongman who could shut Goff up.

So, this toad wants people who oppose the President to be arrested and tortured, or simply gunned down for the sheer gall of meeting and discussing their views. Isn't that one of the things we used to justify overthrowing Saddam Hussein? That he arrested and tortured political opponents, and gunned down suspected foes with no thought to legal process?

I guess the neocons at the New Republic really admire Saddam after all.

Comments

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

You've got it all wrong, they're doing this in the name of Freedom and Liberty.
After all, to keep Freedom you have to cut freedoms, and to maintain Liberty, you have to remove liberty. Simple as that.
Now if they could only prove that black is white and get run down at the next zebra crossing, we would all be much better off.