[Peace-discuss] ACLU liberals

[Robert Naiman]

Is the ACLU responsible for what David Gehrig writes in letters to the
DI? When he volunteered to sit at the table, should they have said:
now, not just anyone can sit at this table. What kind of letters do
you plan to write to the DI?

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:03 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The last time I saw David Gehrig, he was manning the ACLU table at the
> Farmers Market. I hear that he has resigned from the Urbana City Council.
> Here's his comment in response to my DI letter:
>
> http://www.dailyillini.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/2010/11/17/exploitation-of-war-for-fun-profit-disturbing#comments-title
>
>
> "Is the Daily Illini really so hard up for letters that it must print
> near-weekly squashrot from the fringe flake David Green? Has he absolutely
> no idea of how he comes across? I've never seen anyone so brilliantly
> incarnate every facet of the far-right parody of what a dour, smug,
> holds-the-copyright-on-sanctimonious leftist is like. Is he some kind of
> counter-Colbert, except that nobody's in on the joke?"
>
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