Semantic Manipulations - Black Not Moderate

RECEIVED Wed., Oct. 19, 2005

Dear Editor:
    The heading “Black Too Moderate” (according to Kennedy) [“Postmarks,” Oct. 7] implies that those who insist there is a conspiracy to effect a brave new world – after eviscerating the U.S. Constitution and fully enforcing the PATRIOT Act – are extremists.
    One of the manipulations of semantics by this network of omnipotent supervillains has been to label those who know they exist as “extremists” and to equate extremism with violent terrorism.
    What dangerous, unpredictable menaces to society the antagonists of the new world order must be! Or are they merely pathetic little nerds? Well, the latter if they are ineffectual; but the PATRIOT Act explicitly codifies the consequences which will befall the “domestic combatants” who effectively impede the implementation of the prison state which will result should that document be realized.
    I denounce the PATRIOT Acts (I and II and their authors) and profess loyalty only to the U.S. Constitution, intact. No idiot faux-cowboy mobster is going to supplant it, regardless what the toady media (Fox News, et al.) does to legitimize him.
    The bird (avian) flu is a hoax. How could it progress from 80 deaths throughout all Asia (from 150 human cases) to a pandemic that will kill hundreds of millions?
    Any soldiers (sworn to uphold the Constitution) who would kill an American citizen resisting a (pseudo) quarantine (or anyone who would condone such action) are traitors and the lowest form of slime since the gestapo.
    I am quite unconcerned if Louis Black believes this scenario is a fairy tale. I do regard him with admiration (his latest “Page Two,” “It Was 20 Years Ago Today” [Oct. 14], is great), and I do appreciate his opinions and “moderation.”
Sincerely,
Kenney C. Kennedy
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