more on stature?

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From: Chris Beck <[email protected]>
Date: September 26, 2006 4:37:59 PM EDT
To: [email protected], Lauren Weinstein <[email protected]>, "David P.  
Reed" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on stature?

Hey all,

David - it certainly seems to be true - although there are people of  
what some
might call stature who are saying it.  Clinton is against it.  Scads  
of military
types too.  The serious disappointment here is Senator Reid.  Even  
without the
habeas bit it would be worth filibustering for only 4 more days fer  
chrissakes.

And no Republicans.  And no one with serious face time in the MSM.   
I'm looking
at *you* evening anchors.

Thank goodness my leader (Harper) only has a minority government  
otherwise, good
little lapdog that he is, the same stuff would happen here.  Who  
knows, our
unelected senate might refuse to endorse it.

Cheers,
Chris

They say David Farber, on or about 26.Sep.2006 16:22, whispered:
> From: "David P. Reed" <[email protected]>
> Date: September 26, 2006 1:28:21 PM EDT
> Subject: stature?
> Forgive me for laughing.   You want somebody of "stature" to stand  
> up to
> the bullies and a**holes who can't see how torture degrades them in  
> the
> eyes of the world?
>
> The problem is that "stature" today means a well-known person who has
> made a career ov being an opportunistic suck-up to the rich and
> powerful.  Someone who lacks personal courage and builds his  
> reputation
> by paying image consultants like people used to pay hairdressers.
>
> Being saved by a coward seems unlikely.



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du pain. -- Anatole France (Les Lys Rouge - 1894)