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YOU GUYS...
The whole Clear Channel blacklist urban legend
popped up and spread so quickly in the wake of
the attack that within a week the New York Tires
had not only reported the rumor but also revealed
it to be just that—a rumor.
The Atlanta Constitution did its own piece on
the urban legend last week, and the Athens
Banner-Herald revealed it to be an urban legend a
few days before this last Flagpole [Sept. 26] hit
the streets, so for Flagpole to repeat it as fact
reveals that you guys are either incompetent or
dishonest or both. Have you guys ever heard of
fact checking? Do you guys just repeat everything
you overhear in bars or do you occasionally make
some of it up yourselves? Is there a reason to
believe anything you guys print, since you guys
will clearly print anything?
Still waiting for the Sea & Cake.
John McEntire
Email
FOUL. VIOLENT
I can't imagine a more foul, violent piece of
copy than printed in your last edition [Sept. 26].
I'm referring to the "Firing Lane" ad reading:
"Let's bury Bin Laden with a pork chop in his
mouth... Hey Taliban, you want jihad, we got
jihad, Bitch!" How about "We're gonna fuck you
like the Bitch you are." or "Let's bury Bin Laden
with his balls in his mouth."
For a journal supposedly aware of the very fine
distinction between advertising copy and other
content (see your efforts to restrict fighting-dog
advertising) I'm very, very surprised. One more of
these and I'm never picking you up again. I'd
hope others would consider doing the same.
Mark Higgins
Athens
NO DETERRENT
The victims of this awful tragedy deserve
better from us. We cannot carry on as if their lives
did not matter.
Our military might was not and will never be a
deterrent to terrorists. A military response will
embolden others to join the ranks of suicide
attackers. They are not rational people!
Their irrationality springs chiefly from injustice
and inequality. Our government and private enti
ties, in the conduct of their business, promote
underdevelopment of any nation they meet. The
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consequences of our quick disposition to use any
means, however violent, to achieve our political
and economic objectives are finally catching up
with us.
The failure of our institutions does not lie in
their inability to protect us from such an attack.
Rather, they have done their utmost to make fur
ther loss of life and property even likelier.
Yassert Arafat Gonzalez-Alvarez
Athens
DUMBFOUNDED
Thanks to Pete McCommons for filing a non-
jingoist column on the big attack [Sept. 19]. I've
felt some empathy for the people whose job
requires that they say something.
I, for one, remain "dumbfounded" by this and
really can't think of a thing to say in print. These
veils of rage and grief make it hard to see any
light. If you pushed me into a corner and stuck a
mike in my face, I might say "Bomb the hell out
of somebody," too.
Meanwhile, the random amounts of TV cov
erage I've seen since the first week appear to me
to be full of sabre-rattling, drum beating and
packaging for sale as a "news item" even this
event.
Jim Baird
Comer
CLEAN IT UP
I just want to give PROPS to the awesome lady
that works at Little Italy. If you ever have drank
beyond your limits, she is a woman to be FEARED.
Me and my friends were enjoying pizza and beer
around 1 a.m. on Sat. night when a very drunk
girl came to the back of the restaurant in search
of the restrooms.
After repeated failed attempts to open a door
that had no knob (who understands the logic of
drunks, anyway?!) and letting out a little spew,
the girl stumbled into the men's bathroom to do
her pukey business. Okay, so I tattled to the girl
behind the counter, cuz seconds later another boy
was about to dump his puke by the candy
m ichine outside the men’s bathroom. The counter
girl physically throws dude out and then precedes
to pound on the door of the men's room. Once the
drunk girl emerges from the men's room the
employee MAKES the drunk girl wipe up her own
puke! Yes, and why not? The employee should not
have to clean that shit up! And let me tell you.
Little Italy girl was MEAN (and had every damn
right to be!) and kept telling drunk girl she
missed a spot! But I do admit that drunk girl did
a good job at cleaning up. I led my table in a
round of applause for the ballsiness of the female
worker to get that drunk to clean up her; jke. Let
this be a lesson to all you drinkers who don't
know your limits and puke regularly every
weekend, don't do it at Little Italy cuz that
counter girt will make you clean up your mess as
you damn well should! You go girl!!!
Bethie
Email
THANKS. MIKE!
With great interest I read and re-read what
Pete McCommons had to say about Rev. Mike
Marsengill in his opinion, "Speaking of Rev.
Falwell," dated Sept. 26, 2001. The quote by Rev.
Falwell on Pat Robertson's "700 Club" television
program, is worth highlighting: "...attacks on the
World Trade Center represented God giving us
what we deserve... the blame for these attacks
would have to be shared by the American Civil
Liberties Union, the federal courts, abortionists,
pagans, feminists, gays, lesbians, and People for
the American Way who had all been trying to sec
ularize America." And, Rev. Marsengill's comments:
"...that much hate in his heart is no different
from Osama bin Laden." That his sermon on the
true meaning of Christian love and the necessity
and difficulty of loving people was eloquent and
powerful is understating his vibrant, vigorous, and
vicarious performance. I agree wholeheartedly
with Mr. McCommons' assessment that Rev.
Marsengill is a powerful antidote for Rev. Falwell
(Pat Robertson)'s attempted poisoning of
Christianity. Isn't it interesting that it takes a spe
cial kind of person to stand up for what he
believes in? Thanks, Mike!
George N. Mize
Watkinsville
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