Letters to the Editor

What You Say

READER-GENERATED ACRONYMS

To Robert ["Hero. Douche," Feedback, April 8, 2010]: I can see you have a good heart and passion for making a difference. Haiti needs groups like Haitian Street Kids Inc. Given the condition of their barely existent infrastructure, perhaps Haiti can be better served by providing survival tools, medical attention, land preservation, governmental partnerships, materials to rebuild, manpower, volunteerism — a 26-inch HDTV, not so much.

Finally, to the Juvenile Delinquents of the South Street Debacle, from now on you shall be referred to as JDSSD. Because you lack purpose/direction, you have dishonored and tainted the brilliant potential of flash mobs as a constructive movement.

When I saw the cover of last week's City Paper, I was expecting — finally — a Tea Party member who was going to spout facts and figures detailing exactly why they were so against President Obama's policies, and exactly how he was trying to take over the government ["You Say You Want a Revolution?" Cover Story, Holly Otterbein, April 15]. What the heck was I thinking? Mrs. Reimer is plagued with the same problem all Tea Party members seem to have — selective, misinformed outrage. She "woke up" in 2003, not sure of the invasion of Iraq was wrong, but despite all the other things Bush did, it took six years for her to see the light — "coinciding" with Obama's presidency. Great timing! All the organizing, the rallies, the meetings — if they spent half the energy finding out exactly what President Obama's doing that they spend blindly opposing what they think he's doing, I suspect many of them would find that they are fighting tooth and nail against things that will benefit them. I won't even get into the Jekyll/Hyde thing Mrs. Reimer goes through when illegal immigration is discussed. ... Next out of her mouth will be, "Some of my best friends are black." The only one who had the right idea is Robert Mansfield ... if you really, really want to change things, run for public office. They need more like him — in more ways than one.