Great column today: "There's no progress without struggle."

[GumboYaYa]

Check out this column from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sylvester Brown is just about the only decent columnist left at this once great newspaper. He's almost always good, but sometimes he hits it out of the park, like today.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/sylvesterbrownjr/story/FB586BAA36711CC8862571020037A054?OpenDocument

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With a Republican majority in the House and Senate, no real "gotcha moments" against Alito during the Senate hearings and a president who seems to always get his way, I suspect Alito will be our next Supreme Court justice.

Never mind that the nominee seems to believe the courts shouldn't mess with the decisions of elected officials or that the Constitution doesn't recognize the right of choice. So what if he was a 10-year member of a conservative organization founded by wealthy alumni to challenge the influx of females, blacks, Hispanics and even disabled students at Princeton University. Alito is King George's choice, and the king gets his way.

Which led me to other thoughts. I used to believe American presidents couldn't rule by dictate. There was a time when the 4th Amendment meant something, when courts granted warrants to spy on its citizens. I thought wiretapping its citizens, exposing CIA agents out of political spite and torturing foreign captives were relics of the Hoover-McCarthy-Nixon eras. Not so in Bush country.

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There's no progress without struggle. Real Americans don't roll over. We fight - against tyranny, aggression and oppression. We fight for what's right, we fight when "right" is wrong.

[AllegroRondo]

1. I read that in this morning's paper

great stuff

[GumboYaYa]

2. Sylvester's column is about the only reason I read the Post

anymore.

[Sequoia]

3. John Lennon said the same thing. Someone posted

his interview with ? on the anniversary of his death and he said that very thing as I recall.

[GumboYaYa]

5. I think Fredrick Douglas was the originator of the quote, but

I'm sure it has been used by lots of people. It makes sense that Lennon would.

[katty]

4. amen-simple and to the point! great post