[Mia T]

"Shame on you."

Shauna Carroll, the 11-year-old daughter of embattled police officer Sean Carroll, sent this angry letter to Hillary Clinton - who recently admitted she "misspoke" about the Diallo case.

Dear Hillary Clinton,

As an 11 year old student, enjoying my school life, I have been encouraged to learn about current events in our society, I have read various newspapers and enjoyed media coverage of events that will one day change our society.

However, as a daughter of an NYPD officer I am disappointed at your narrow-minded comment about the Diallo shooting. They are not murderers as you call them. They are regular guys, like my dad, Sean Carroll.

Our lives have changed a great deal because of this tragedy. I have heard death threats on my answering machine and watched people like you use my dad for political purposes.

Hillary, as a woman, my mother encouraged me to look to the bright side and believe in ourselves. However, you as a woman and a mother, are not exactly a good role model for your daughter or any other young girl.

I cried when I watched you refer to my dad and his partners as murderers.

Hillary, look before you leap. Don't judge a book by a cover. Think before you talk and learn more about a subject before you condemn someone.

Shame on you.

Shauna Carroll, proud daughter of NYC police officer

Hillary Press Release RE: Diallou Verdict

New York Post , Feb 24, 2000 print edition

Candle in the Wind (Hillary, pandering in NY over shooting)

Lyrics, Doug from Upland

An 11-year-old girl named Shauna Carroll is proud of her daddy, Sean Carroll, one of New York's finest. She wrote a letter to Hillary Clinton taking her to school for calling her dad a murderer. Shauna, this one's for you. You should be proud of your dad. And he should be proud of you.

MIDI - CANDLE IN THE WIND

Each day daddy leaves and we don't know if he'll come back
The streets are full of animals all ready to attack
He always strives for justice...he works hard and does his job fine
He has been very proud to be part of the thin blue line

And when you say police are murderers you've insulted everyone
I won't let you spin away this awful thing you've done
I am just a girl who's eleven but there's one thing I see
You're playing your own agenda here...you're evil, Hillary

I am really scared...I do not like to be alone
Our lives our now a living hell with death threats on the phone
My daddy's heart is broken...he breaks down and he cries each day
Because the tragic accident can never go away

And when you say police are murderers you've insulted everyone
I won't let you spin away this awful thing you've done
I am just a girl who's eleven but there's one thing I see
You're playing your own agenda here...you're evil, Hillary

clintonism and the theology of contempt

by Mia T

 

 

Let us hope that the rabbi's question was merely rhetorical. . . Let us hope that Rabbi Potasnik, and by extension, New York Jews, are not as credulous and obsequious and passive as they appear. . .

 

The simple answer to the rabbi's question is that the corrupt, self-serving, anti-Semitic, power-hungry harpy cannot be trusted.

 

Weren't we to never forget?

 

The Holocaust must remain, for Jew and gentile alike, a constant reminder that mass credulity and obsequiousness and passivity are necessary for the demagogue to prevail.

 

To remember that six million Jews died in the Holocaust is to understand that centuries of anti-Semitic attitudes made this horror possible. We must ask ourselves what role our society played through the centuries that in any way contributed to the atmosphere that made such a genocide even thinkable.

 

Which brings me to the clintons and clintonism. . .

 

Senator Patrick Moynihan proffered one of the more incisive operant definitions of clintonism -- "defining deviancy down."

 

Defining deviancy down, indeed.

clintonism has made personal and public perversions, personal and public predations, not merely thinkable, not merely acceptable, but de rigueur. (Watch us spin.}

 

   

 

clintonism is the theology of contempt. Not merely toward "F___ing Jew-bastards" or "lazy niggers" or "extra-chromosome right-wingers" but toward any of us whose ideas are different from those of the clintons, Gore, and their acolytes.

 

So the real question to be answered is this:

"What fair-minded, clear-thinking person would want to continue

with its theology of contempt?

What fair-minded, clear-thinking person would vote for hillary clinton or Al Gore?"

 

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the great addition to the thread. And thanks for bringing back the song. I'd forgotten about it.