Bernie's 1981 letter to Maggie Thatcher

[cali]

[onehandle]

1. I remember letters.

Typewriters too.

Michael Nesmith is set for life.

[DefenseLawyer]

3. Thumbs up for a Monkees whiteout reference! n/t

[Zorra]

7. So...are you saying it was really Bruce Rappaport who wrote that letter?

[onehandle]

8. squish skwish kchswizh

[Ken Burch]

41. OK...weird footage. Doesn't discredit Bernie as a champion of justice, though. n/t.

[Fawke Em]

31. True story (and proof social media is the Great Equalizer):

I learned of Davy Jones' death because I happened to be "chatting" with Mike Nesmith on Facebook.

Kid you not.

He found out while he was talking to me.

[greatauntoftriplets]

35. I gave Thatcher the finger in Red Square in September of 1982.

[beam me up scottie]

39. That is awesome, brava!

[George II]

37. Someone else posted a typewritten work of Sanders and it was hidden.

[beam me up scottie]

38. Oh do tell, George. Was it this one?

I sure hope you're not referring to his essay on gender stereotypes that the right wing nut jobs went to pieces over. The troglodytes at youngcons and other freeperish websites had quite a meltdown over it but no intelligent adult I know even blinked twice after reading it. Liberals do nuance and context, good thing, eh?

[George II]

40. How'd he do in that election for Governor?

[beam me up scottie]

42. Here I'll let him explain it to you, he released the transcript of his paid speech:

Oh and have you seen this one yet? Here's Bernie in 1963 getting arrested for protesting segregated housing:

[Avalux]

2. Bernie is true and solid. Great letter to the Iron Lady!

[Zorra]

4. Wow! Bernie is the best. Nice find, cali.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. ALWAYS fighting the good fight for "the least of these."

He's amazing. Simply amazing.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[jillan]

6. Great find Cali !!

[beedle]

9. Hillary Clinton modeled herself after the former British prime minister

... when she ran for the White House in 2008

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-04-08/what-margaret-thatcher-taught-hillary-clinton

[hifiguy]

27. She sounds even more like Thatcher now.

"No we WON'T, you peasants. Now shut up and go off to a pointless war."

"The Falklands war wasn't about land, it was about SHEEP!" Robin Williams

[tk2kewl]

34. ugh...

and I thought it was just my imagination

[panader0]

10. Bobby Sands------His death had a big effect on me.

Bobby Sands

Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze.

[Ken Burch]

11. HRC would never ever have written a letter criticizing Thatcher for anything.

What Thatcher did on the hunger strike issue was indefensible.

[cali]

12. It was horrifying

[zentrum]

14. So True.

[zentrum]

13. Heart Bernie's heart.

[Feeling the Bern]

15. Ahh. . .he did it in 1981 because he knew 35 years later, he would run for president

so he needed his Bernbots and BernieBros to read this insincere piece of shit and use it to destroy the Democratic Party.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

(is this really necessary?)

[lame54]

16. This song references that strike...

[kgnu_fan]

17. amazing, consistent all through these years. nt

[SMC22307]

18. K&R

[Duppers]

19. Wow!

Love the stand-up courage of that man.

[roguevalley]

22. no. he supported states doing the right thing

[mhatrw]

23. lol

Do you support Abu Ghraib?

[dlwickham]

25. Apples and oranges

But nice try

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. Apples = Irish prisoners Oranges = Iraqi prisoners?

[AzDar]

21. Always fighting the Good Fight...

Bernie!!

[boston bean]

24. He told her to cut it out!

[cali]

26. Yes he did.

Hilly says she told wall street criminals to cut it out, but unlike Bernie, she offers no proof.

[pacalo]

28. Bernie walks the walk. The real deal.

[Nanjeanne]

30. He is such a good man and standing on the right side of history during his long career.

[Fawke Em]

32. As a person of Irish descent on both sides of my family, I cried when I read that letter yesterday.

I have both Orange and Green blood and those times were particularly trying for my family.

[Uncle Joe]

33. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, cali.

[farleftlib]

36. great find, cali

Not surprising. Bernie is always standing up for justice for the little guy, no matter what the "optics" are.

K & R

[kath]

43. In the 1980s, Sanders also wrote letters to Carter and Reagan protesting U.S. involvement in Nica-

ragua:

While serving as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, for eight years in the 1980s, Sanders wrote a series of letters and official resolutions to President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan, addressing U.S. involvement in the civil war in Nicaragua.

In 1983, Sanders wrote a letter to Reagan saying: “At a time when your administration has imposed horrendous cutbacks to the American people…I am appalled that you are using taxpayers’ money to destroy the government of a small nation.”

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Sanders-Was-Totally-Opposed-to-US-Immoral-Nicaragua-War-20160213-0030.html

thanks to Judy Lynn for posting it in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511234846