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DISGRACEFUL

The current front page [Cover, May 13] with a gun to the head of a cat with "Vote for [Joe] Sestak or We'll Kill this Cat" is a disgrace in this day and age, with not only cruelty to animals running rampant, but the daily killing of persons with guns. Shame on you. You probably cost Sestak votes.

[Ed. note: That image was, of course, an homage to National Lampoon's famous January 1973 cover (Google it). City Paper does not actually advocate violence toward cats, although we do believe them to be generally evil creatures.]

Diana Reimer and the rest of the "tea baggers" — yeah, that's my choice for such a hateful group — show their total ignorance of history when they try to connect the Boston Tea Party with their obnoxious group ["You Say You Want a Revolution?" Cover Story, Holly Otterbein, April 15]. The Boston Tea Party, for those of you who were absent or weren't paying attention in school, was about taxation without representation. This crowd is about "we are being taxed and we don't like our representatives."

For her information, in her claim that the Democrats have controlled this city for too long, it may interest her to know that, until Joe Clark became mayor in 1952, the GOP controlled this city for 80 years, all the way back to 1872.

What she really opposes is not that one party has been controlling the city for so many years, but that it is the "wrong" party controlling the city. Many of our neighboring counties have been controlled by the GOP for generations, but I guess that is OK. She mentions the bailout, but as the article points out, that was initiated by Mr. Bush, something she conveniently forgets. Ditto the illegal immigrants.

As with every fringe group, she is selective in her memory and her complaints. What she really objects to is the fact that an African-American man is president of our country. After 43 white presidents — and I am a white person — I think we can manage to have one non-white.

Get your facts straight before you presume to speak about the history of our country and the "Cradle of Liberty."