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Dear Les, I have only recently discovered your website, and I am full of admiration for what you are accomplishing. I referenced the exchange with Ms Barth, because it actually became the motivator to sit and type a message to you. That kind, wise, and ultimately effective dialogue put a very human face (or I should say, voice) on my impression of you, persuading me that you are who you present yourself to be. It is now just over 18 months since I have had my eyes opened to what is really going on in the world. Certainly there were pieces that came to me in prior days (I read more than 30 books on the assassinations over the years before I was able to put those pieces together), and the breadth and depth of the deception going on is still breathtaking to me. It is unsettling to wake up one day to find that you KNOW you’ve been an unwitting participant in a great fraud, and one that is elementally sinister, at that! The warmth and humanity you demonstrated in your replies to Ms Barth persuade me that it is, indeed, possible to think and write about the frightful state of worldly affairs without losing one’s moorings vis- B With the great bombardment of controlled messaging over all media, it is difficult enough to sift through and find those hearty souls who are committed to knowing, and telling, the truth. I am collecting them to me, one at a time, that I may see and hear my world more clearly. Thank you for your continuing efforts. With warmest regards, Eric Hanson
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Linderholm [mailto:] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:26 PM To: editor@axisoflogic.com Subject: American Legion threat The way to find out exactly what the American Legion means by voting to stop public protest of the war in Iraq "by any means" is to simply ask the Commander just what is included in the "any means" threat. So today I emailed the Commander:
"Dear Commander, I recently read that the American Legion voted to prevent public protest of the Iraq war "by any means". 1) Does "by any means" include the use of violence including any threat of death or physical harm by American Legion members or those in their employ against those war protestors who protest in public? 2) Does "by any means" include kidnapping or physical restraint by members of the Legion of war protestors who protest publically? 3) Does "by any means" include the use of electrical, chemical or biological weapons (including tasar, chlorine compounds, bacteriological formulations) by Legion members against war protestors who protest in a public place? Thank you sincerely, Bob Robert Linderholm
-----Original Message----- From: Philip Kienholz [mailto:] Les Blough: Thanks for the rich and insightful article, "Who is the Enemy?" published 8 Sep 2005 on Axis of Logic. I admire your ability to write from the radical insight of what is at times called "psychological projection," and link it to the words of the Bush administration, turning those statements on their heads. The phrase, "psychological projection" does not do justice to the topic or to your article. Back in the insane Reagan years of bipolar nuclear terror I started a study of such topics to keep myself from collapsing into pools of mush. An excellent book I read and annotated then was: Keen, Sam; Anne Page, photo ed., FACES OF THE ENEMY: REFLECTIONS OF THE HOSTILE IMAGINATION, (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986). This book is on the same topic as your essay, and I thought you might be interested in reading it if you haven't already. I think that it would be very important to have more articles, and more widely distributed, that lay out the psychology you have elucidated. Even complex and subtle topics like the process of projection and sociological implications of it can be grasped by the populace if enough artists and writers regularly base work on it. Peace: Philip Kienholz
-----Original Message----- Thanks for taking keyboard in hand again and writing the piece "Who is the Enemy?" It stands above most pieces written today, even by those of us who write about similar experiences and subjects.
Your first paragraph under the subtitle "Who Has Enemies?" says it all. I have experienced this many times: talking to old acquaintances who then hit you with a bombshell. In your instance, it was about New Orleans. For me, it is mostly about Iraq. After the small talk about sports, etc., the statements that come next shock: "Isn't it great that we freed Iraq?" or "We gotta take care of those dirty Iraqi terrorist bastards that are killing our boys."
I don't have to tell you that one's list of friends becomes diminished once you realize their thought processes.
Thanks again for such an astute article.
Sincerely,
Jeff Archer (Malcom Lagauche)
-----Original Message----- From: kossack@verizon.net [mailto:] Subject: Thank You. Dear Mr. Blough, I have been visiting your fine site since mid-2004 and am always pleased with the hard-hitting commentary and political analysis that come with each article I read. Your editors and contributors are not only a great asset in forming a better opinion on the world, but help in offering another view of it, far from the right winger concepts or the left wing perspectives that are commonly used in corporate media such as CNN and FOX news. After the WMD threat turned out to be false, I felt cheated and robbed by the current administration's doings, and their continuous disregard for the world community. Chancing into your site helped to create a more educated viewpoint of my own opinions. You could say it helped articulate them. I applaud your excellent website. I'll continue to read AxisofLogic.com as time goes on. I also have a question I'd like to ask. I've written several politically themed poems and would like to know the steps for submitting one or two into the site. Is it as simple as e-mailing it to one of the editors, or are there other steps I'm unaware of? Thank you for taking the time to read this. Kossack
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From: Kevin Voll [mailto:] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:58 PM To: editor@axisoflogic.com Subject: Europe: Thy name is cowardice It is obvious that Robert Thompson is a supporter of Muslims. His remarks are certainly outlandish. We feel sorry for him. -----Original Message----- (was in all CAPS) From: [ANONYMOUS] [mailto:] Subject: Who is Cindy Sheehan to ask to again meet with the President of the United States of America? I prefer, if published, that it be anonymous please. Who is Cindy Sheehan to ask to again meet with the President of the United States of America? She is not any head of state of any foreign country or ally. Someone who receives more than ten minutes per meeting is certainly someone like that. Someone who can meet more than once with the President of the United States of America. Someone who can have a frank and sincere discussion with the President of the United States of America, even on points of disagreement. That’s a person who meets with the President of the United States of America, Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful, omnipotent nation on the planet. Cindy Sheehan is just a simple citizen of United States of America. Or has she contributed any money to the President’s election campaigns or his political party funding? Anything recently? How much? It’s got be something fairly substantial too. In any other way has she or any of her family distinguished themselves to be important to the President of the United States of America, the United States government, or its vital interests? Her son died, "paid the ultimate sacrifice" the President has said, in service to the country. One ten minute meeting was more than enough. Next? Anonymous |