Cockfight Letters

Cockfight Letters
Written in Response to Dr. Suzy's
Cockfight at the Baghdad Corral
Bukkake Bombing Crusade
Art Bombs: American Libertines for Peace
Rape of Iraq
lying & dying: SEX, LIES & WMDs
Saddam's SeX Therapist & the Rape of Free Speech
The Smack Daddies: Bush's Taliban Drug Deal
Indecent Insurgents: Watch What You Say
Bush's P.O.W. Porn
Save Abu Ghraib
America in tha Hood
Theater of Cruelty

also appearing in

Theater of Cruelty
LETTERS

From: Theron Marks
To: drsuzyb@blockbooks.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:13 AM
Subject: RE: [TheDrSusanBlockShow] Theater of Cruelty
very intense

America in tha Hood
LETTERS

From: "Wilson, Jamar" <JWILSON@ccok.com>
To: "Dr. Susan Block Institute" <drsuzyb@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 2:19 PM
Subject: RE: Dr. Susan Block
I loved your article, that's what induced me to write you. Take care. Jamar Wilson

From: "smOkco" <sm0kco@yahoo.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 10:00 AM
Subject: Right on Hooding
Dear Susan, Yes, hooding is torture. You are the first I know in the Internet who recognize this simple and terrible truth. You couldndt breathe, nobody can. The hoods used by the soldiers are long and go down down the head so att the minimal air coming in mixes with your own exhausted air, all the time. Two minutes is a long time. I had a hood on me during more than two months. With the hood on your head you are blind, you live in a world without light. The hearing is bad. In all cases I know of hooding the hands are bound at the back of the body, so it is impossible to help with the hands and arms the rest of the illtreated body. There is a science of hooding, doctors and psychoanalists in the armed forces have recommended "treatments" of the hooded which applies systematically by the soldiers. For example the "water boarding" you name (we called it "the submarine") is done with the hood on. When the soldiers get your head out of the water you get an extra punch in the stomach, you are dying a horrible death desperately looking for just a little air. The wet hood is even tighter on you. And so on, electric shocks, sexual illtreatment, etc. As you mention, people die under this "simple" treatment. Everybody is kicked and punched from the moment they get hooded, continously. When people fall down pushed by the soldiers they get badly hurt. As you know, the military are not counting dead iraquies, I suppose the number of deaths by hooding must be high with 40-50.000 prisoners getting this treatment. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In every military transport vehicle used in Iraq and Agfanistan there is a pile of hoods waiting to be used. These hoods are produced in factories, by the hundreds of thousands, administrated, paid, counted and sent to every battalion out in the field. This is systematic, planed torture. It is not "abuse", it is torture, ending many times in death. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx A good description is made by Matthew Happold in the Guardian "Hooding - the placing of a bag or sack over an individual's head and securing it so that it cannot be removed - is a practice with an ugly history. It is not only inhuman and illegal; it is also often the harbinger of further rough treatment. Were such a practice to be adopted at home, there would be an outcry. It is difficult to see why practising it abroad on foreigners renders it acceptable. There are no good reasons to hood detainees. It does not provide any extra protection to the detaining troops once the suspect is bound, nor is there any need for British troops to hide their identity from their captives. Hooding is a form of sensory deprivation. It is disorientating, frightening and possibly dangerous for those subject to it (particularly when their hands are also tied). Hooding also serves to dehumanise the person subjected to it, possibly leading to rougher treatment at the hands of his captors. Indeed, television footage of British troops escorting hooded suspects did not show them acting with much solicitude. Hooding has often been used as a "softening up" technique prior to interrogation. The fact that it is being practised by British troops does not give one confidence as to their behaviour once the cameras stop rolling and interrogation starts." Thank you Susan for your articles in Counterpunch. My name is Carlos Rodriguez, I am from Uruguay and I live in Sweden since 1976. I am 63 years old. Susan, you are on a good track and as a doctor you can get deeper into these State systems and define concepts. It is a pity I have no access to your TV-shows but your articles in Counterpunch are avidly read here. Best wishes

From: "Adam Roberts" <roberts23@earthlink.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 5:23 AM
Subject: america in tha hood
Enjoyed your last piece in Counterpoint. But you left out my favorite - the good ole' clitoral hood!

Save Abu Ghraib
LETTERS

From: "farbuthnot" <asceptic@freenetname.co.uk>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 1904 9:53 AM
Subject: Save Abu Ghraib
Dear Dr Block,
Your article re Abu Ghraib is the one I was going to write almost word for word - good for you. And you are spot on, I heard Bush's proposal at about 2 a.m. here in the UK and nearly fell out of bed yelling: Oh no you don't destroy the evidence, is it, not if I can help it .... By the way, those who should pay for the memorial or whatever and the reparation are CACI, Blackwater, Control Risks etc., not the US or indeed UK (the British are behaving no better, they are just better at keeping the lid on it) taxpayer. If states can seize assetts of drug traffickers they can seize assets of torturers. Congratulations again, on a great article.

From: "David Vest" <davidvest@springmail.com>
To: "Dr. Susan Block Institute" <drsuzyb@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 12:08 PM
Subject: waiting with love and hope
Suzy, This time you moved me to tears with the image you left of those families waiting outside Abu Ghraib. If any Iraqis are able to read it, it may be the first evidence they'll see that anyone actually cares what happens to them. David Vest

From: <Jeffc2535@cs.com>
To: <drsuzyb@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TheDrSusanBlockShow] Save Abu Ghraib!
Suzy, What so the Iraq people can remember where there loved ones were beat and > tourtured........ what that country needs is a new start...............President Bush,,,,,,is doing more for this entire world then countries do for there own people.......STOP BEING ANTI BUSH,,,,,,,,if you keep sending me your propaganda take me off your list for emails...... Yes, we all have the freedom of speech. HOWEVER do you really think that the bad people or more like animals, as a personal friend calls them those been to Iraq and Afghanistan and all those terrible places, and is currently over there serving in the armed forces. Do you think they care about America, they hate us for bringing them a real way of living. They like that they can be a bunch of terrorists and get away with it.
> How every one for got the 1993 bombing of the WTC -Clinton time clock....and the Embassy bombings and killing of people and troops over the years. And 9/11/2001. Is almost 3 years ago. and I know and knew people that worked in those buildings WTC. So if the USA does not stand up and fight back and dominate, then what is the answer ???? there is no reasoning with those animals in the middle east.

LETTERS

From: C Queen
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:37 PM
Subject: Carol Queen here
Suzy, I just read your POW Porn essay. Masterful! Thank you so much for your incisive ass-kicking. xxxCQ

From: Z. Spoox
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 12:04 AM
Subject: POW Porn
I trust you. You are after all a Doctor...er, well, I'll trust you anyway. Brainy women turn me on. That's my confession. The cerebral-clitoral cortex confirms the old wisdom that two heads are better than one (the latter a true delicacy!). In any case, Dr. Block -- I muddled through your long screed and am a better man for it. Although I kept picturing myself at one end of the dog leash and you at the other -- paragraph after paragraph. Thank You for your very fine piece (wink, wink) Citizen Spook

From: KHD
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:45 PM
Subject: american porn
Dear Dr. Block, I just read your extraordinary piece on this shameful war. As an Arab and a Muslim, I wanted to thank you for writing it. People with your courage are rare, and the real heroes of this despicable hour. Bon courage!

From: J Farabee
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 9:04 AM
Subject: Bush's Porn
I admire the hell out of you. What you do takes guts-which have been voluntarily removed from 99% of the people who work in mass media. But speaking of Bush and sex, what do you make of Condi Rice's referral to Dubya as her "husb---"? Funny, isn't it, that newspapers sent hundreds of reporters out to find Monica's "little blue dress", but aren't the least bit interested in this telling remark?

From: "STEPHEN BLOCK JR." <PARRYISLE2@webtv.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>; <parryisle2@webtv.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:41 PM
Subject: WOW!!!
"Bush's POW Porn" says it all.... Really love your columns which are sorely needed now that the inmates are in charge of the asylum in D.C. Appreciatively yours, Steve Block

From: "Anthony Caesar" <caesara@mcn.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:37 AM
Subject: Superb: Your Counterpunch
Dr. Block: I was amazed by your recent (May 14) excellent essay/article/ at Counterpunch. It is truly in its insights, one for my lifetime. There are no words to fully cover how razor sharp and funny those insights were. The perverse in-denial attitude of most Americans I have heard reactions from about this are something to behold. The embarrassment for the quite evident true white supremacist, sexually conflicted, violence-fascinated hypocrisy in this whole affair leaves them stammering and struggling with deciding whether they are truly as stupid as they seem to have been, or to yet once
again struggle to put a positive face on it, as something that we will get through and make a course correction on (and go ahead in ³staying the course²) in the ³war on terror². I for the first time in my life pity those asses who have convinced themselves this was all for the greater good. And most of all, your incisive examination of what this reveals about Bush, his sexual atmosphere and his distancing and denial of it¹s true nature and
distancing of himself, aided and abetted by the media of any connection with this sick fuck-up. I am glad you are writing more recently, it is right that you are doing so since the undercurrent here to many is that this is in a big way also about us as Americans and our weird outlook on sex. Tony Caesar

From: P. Allison
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: Bush's POW Porn
Very illuminating piece of work. Did you ever see the comments from a boyhood friend of his about shooting frogs with his .22? I think his friend said George blew them up with firecrackers too. He's a piece of work. When he slithered into office I knew what he was and my only hope was he wouldn't get us nuked. Jon

From: "Satin-Jacobs, Jake" <SatinJ@metro.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2004 11:14 AM
Subject: Bush as Sadist
No one has hit the nail on the head with such accuracy. Thank you. Jake Satin-Jacobs Manager, Service Performance Analysis

From: GYoung4050@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:04 AM
Subject: RE: W porn
Dear Dr. Block, Thank you for your insightful article about W's sexuality. I had been wondering for many months. I knew he was a bully but I hadn't connected it to sex. Sincerely, Geoff Young

From: John Burton
To: Susan Block
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 7:24 PM
Subject: Bush's POW Porn
Nice work, Dr. Suzy. Keep it up.

From: "DSchneider"
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: Kudos on Bush's POW Porn
Dr. Block, Amid the obfuscation and out-right lies endemic in the formulation and initiation of American foreign policy of late, your article, Bush's POW Porn, contained a refreshing burst of accuracy, candor and humor. Through legal sophistry, George the Younger hijacked the country in 2000. Since that day, this nation--and indeed much of the world--has lived in fear of a group as puritanically pious and violently fundamentalist as the Taliban: the Axis of Incompetence (Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld). Thus, I hope more Americans will read pieces such as yours, foreswear watching the fascists at Fox News, and utilize their outrage to send "The Shrub" back to Texas November. I look forward to reading your future work on this subject and other matters in the future. Sincerely, DS

From: Scott Frasier
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 12:03 PM
Subject: Humiliation and the Right
Need I remind you that this humiliation gig is part and parcel of the present generation of right wing inquisitors. "Judge Starr", as he was called, produced his own pornography during the Clinton escapades. His staff of "intelligence" officers terrorized many women in order to get the answers they wanted. Most of the women knuckled under to Starr and his staff. "Just give us what we want and we won't include your escapades in the Starr report or leak it to the NY Times." Monica gave them so much she probably almost killed them with orgasms. Two of those who didn't are Clinton himself (seemingly incapable of embarassment) and Susan McDougal, who spent a harrowing time in prison. These guys and gals didn't invent the stuff. They're just the latest practitioners.

From: Keith Ingram
To: rox@blockbooks.com
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 8:12 AM
Subject: Bush's POW porn
Thank you for this very insightful and interesting article, Dr. Block.

From: Beth Schlau
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2004 8:20 PM
Subject: Bush's POW porn
One of the finest articles I have ever seen about the current bunch of criminals that roost as our government. Thanks a lot!

From: "Jaime Maldonado" <jfmaldonado@sympatico.ca>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2004 7:50 AM
Subject: Thanks for educating the world
Dr. Susan Block: I admire your courage to speak out and articulate the suffering of Iraqis. People like you are true patriots. Your writings expose the realities of how perverse and cruel Bush and his "axis of evil" pack in the White House really are. Articles like the ones you have in Counterpunch are so important to open people's eyes to the truth

From: "iharka" <cdkozak@fastmail.fm>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: comments and writing by Igor
Susan, I find your article "Bush's POW Porn" worth thousands of kudos. It takes more than the fable's little boy to state that the "King is nude"! Your bravery and insight are most commendable and I only wish I had such lucid and gripping style at my command... Best successes to you in the future! IG Kozak

From: Isabel Hutchinson
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: Bush POW Porn Greetings. I have read your report - a disgusting read indeed. There's no point "hoping" Bush will read it too. He & all his cabal are psychopaths & they care zero about other than themselves. There's a lot online about psychopaths at www.cassiopaea.org I have seriously considered sending your report to all New Zealand members of parliament [but they wouldn't be able to stomach it]. I've not even had an acknowledgement of my letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade written the day news of the photos obscenity broke. Nasty, sensitive, little man that he has only ever been! Enough of N.Z. politics. I really wanted to tell you that elsewhere I have read second-hand [i.e., a translation - possibly on a South American of Mexican site] that a doctor who saw the video of the Berg slaugher declared that Berg wasn't alive: no blood spurted everywhere when the jugulars were cut. I'm a retired registered nurse: a severed jugular certainly shoots a lot of blood because of the pumping heart. Also, that the screams were not in sync. with the application of the knife. I've not seen the video myself, [& have no intention of doing so] so can't give an opinion. Just thought I would let you know of the possibility that the murder was staged. I am quite sure that in another sense it was staged: the focus must be kept on those dirty, freedom & democracy hating, un-christian muslims! If only there were at least 200 million citizens of the U.S. of A. who are as awake, conscious as you & still too few others in the U.S. of A. are. I think that the majority of your compatriots are in some kind of hynogogic state. Still, it's not new: the "leaders" of your country have been oppressing peoples throughout the world for as long as the U.S. of A has existed. It has only ever been an imperialistic power. Colonialism PAYS - BIG TIME. However, to yanks, it's always been that mythical place: "home of the brave, land of the free". Anyway, thanks for the disgusting read - you wrote what I am too dispirited to express. Isabel Hutchinson New Zealand

From: Jeff Grunewald
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 11:26 AM
Subject: Bush's porn
Laura looks like she hasn't had an orgasm in years. George's short attention span probably also applies to foreplay. He's probably a premature ejaculator, too. I could never picture them having sex anyway. Jeff Grunewald

From: "Michael Skoruppa" <MSkoruppa@gmx.de>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 4:53 AM
Subject: Bush POW porn
Dear Dr. Block, your outspoken commentary impressed me very much. And so did your call on> your fellow citizens to do all they can to end the arrogant, ignorant and criminal behaviour of your leaders against the rest of the world. This very morning I heard that the Pentagon called new allegations in Monday's New Yorker "outlandish". This reminds me, as a German, of our Neonazis' slogan ("Auslaender raus=foreigners out!). As in our country, in my father's generation, there seem to be some little (in our case brown) men who came from Mars and did terrible things in Germany's name with no connection to the German people whatsoever. So now there are some unamerican people in the US who do a lot of unamerican things. Much has been said on Counterpunch of the preparations of your gevernment that all showed in the direction of the abuses that had been carried out, as it seems, right from the end of the first stage of this war, when Bush declared "Mission Accomplished". But as in the case of my country these atrocities could not have been carried out without the, at least silent, approval of the so-called moral majority. When I see reports about the US in our country which, of course, are not all favourable, there is one thing that always strikes me most which time after time I cannot come to terms with: That is this absolute self-righteousness. If you are a "good guy" all is OK. But if you do something wrong all abuse is allowed. The first precondition in punishment and correction seems to be, for many US-citizens I saw in many docmentaries, to break the will of a person, to break the person. The righteousness exposed seems to be driven by a deep hatred of all deviations, but in fact of life itself. It reminded me of pictures of the pillors in the MA, in the dark ages, when I saw a young offender having to go around carrying a "sandwich" saying "I am a thief". But this, I am told, is happening in the USA today.Mumia Abu Jamal wrote in the "Junge Welt" (a German newspaper which you can alo find on the internet www.jungewelt.de) that you cannot liberate a people you despise. And I think it is more obvious from another fact than the torture and the abuse that the US military and US administration never had the intention to liberate the country, to bring "freedom and democracy" and what have you. You do not liberate a country by poisoning it with depleted uranium ammunition, with the nuclear waste of your country, killing not only people of this generation, but of many, many unborn generations. The US government denies any connection between cancer and depleted uranium. They have the absolute power, the power to define. I think if people would see the deformed new-born babies of Iraq, without eyes, even without heads (as you could at the German TV station "Phoenix" last weak) at least some of the US-citizens would understand the recklessness of their superiors. It is not only this president who contaminates other countries, there were two presidents before him who did the same: Bush 1 in Iraq and Clinton in the Balcans. The use of the uranium ammunition shows the deep-seated disregard of the people all of other countries than the US within the elites clearer than anything else can. Well, and it must be added, for Bush, the servant of the US energy industry, it is another possibility to prove himself. He brought the oil under control and he helped the corporations one more time to get rid of their nuclear waste. Despite all the chatter of "moral leadership" (when can the US regain its moral leadership? tomorrow? the day after tomorrow? they ask) the white western peoples, this master-race, has only brought misery and death to the rest of the world, to the colonized world since 500 years. We should all calm a bit down and start to try to behave like human beings though this may be a bit hard in the beginning. Hoping that we will see some little change in our lifetime with best regards Michael Skoruppa

From: Ianmac500@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 12:55 AM
Subject: your article Bushes POW porn
Hi loved the article, well written. take care ian.
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press ... have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence- death - is hidden from public view.": Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for New York Times

From: mathias broeckers
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 12:48 AM
Subject: Bushs POW Porn
Dear Dr. Block: just read your article on "counterpunch" with pleasure. A little hint to your thoughts on Bush's psychological and sexual conditions: The Prez suffers with hippophobia, the greatest cowboy of all times is afraid of horses - and since Freud we know, that this might have to do something with his sexuality. I compared "little George" with Freuds famous case "kleiner Hans" in an article "Crusader without a horse" (only in german: http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/glosse/17295/1.html ) In the coming election this little secret should become a more public topic in the US Best regards Mathias Broeckers www.broeckers.com

From: Dooglefish@aol.com
To: drsuzyb@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Bush's POW Porn
Your style of writing normally is fluid and cohesive. Your most recent article was different. If you would permit an observation, it appears the Abu Ghraib porn tapes offended you to the extent you were personally, as opposed to intellectually moved. Every point you made was valid and relevant. This is not a critique, merely an observation.

From: Paul A. Brennan
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2004 8:38 PM
Brevity is the soul of wit; this article lacked both but shone with a proud purple prose that led to yawning. It would be better to make a point and go on, not just to go on and on.

From: Eileen Flanagan
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:19 PM
Subject: Bush's POW Porn
Dear Dr. Block, I read your article on the Bush rape rooms with great approval. It's about time someone called this what it is. What makes it even more loathsome is the way that these fundie bloviators go on about morality and god. From Asscroft to Rummy to Bush et al, this group is profoundly perverse. I'd recommend a few weeks with a dominatrix, but that's probably just what they'd like. I just pray to God As I Know Her that these people are made to pay for what they've done in a way that the world can see. I pray that John Kerry is allowed to be elected and that we can begin to make amends to the international community. Only by regime change can we reclaim our democracy and the self-respect that we once knew. Give 'em hell, Doc! Sincerely, Eileen Flanagan New York City

From: anonymous
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 7:42 PM
Subject: Hi Susan, Just read your article on Bush's POW porn. What a *great* piece of writing. No one else has put it so eloquently, nor so bluntly. One bone to pick, as it were. You make allusion to Bush being caught "with his political pants down, way down around his ankles, exposing his severe shortcomings for all the world to revile." Isn't one root of social violence men's obsession with playing 'Who has the biggest dick?' Do we need to encourage this game by equating Bush's deficits to the size of his penis? I've had my consciousness raised lately on this issue, as my current lover is, well, small. Call me kinky, but his size turns me on. But I've realized that being a small-dicked man in this world is damned difficult. I would send him your otherwise great article, but don't wish to subject him to more dick-bashing. Just a thought.

From: Carol Wolf
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:14 AM
Subject: Thank you for your article
Dear Dr. Block: Thank you for your fascinating article, "Bush's POW Porn." It is very thought provoking. I was also interested to know about the backgrounds of the men Bush sent to run his prisons in Iraq. I was particularly interested in your speculations about Bush's sexuality. For a man who is supposed to have been a "womanizer" in his youth, he has a complete dearth of old girlfriends, and seems frigidly uncomfortable when holding Laura's hand. My mother, a therapist, told me that when two people become sexually intimate, their personal boundries meld together; they are no longer aware of them with one another. Based on that information, I would say Bush has never had sex with Laura. His body language, when near her, is that of a midddle school boy, stiff, embarrassed and repelled. I think he's comfortable with Karen Hughes and Condi Rice because he's very comfortable with women as nannies. It's probably the only intimate relationship he has ever had. They certainly act like nannies toward him. I began to suspect the Bush twins origin when GW had to take a month to come to a decision about stem cell research. In a mind so definitively black and white, the answer he came up with, that some personally designated stem cell research was okay, but all other such research was forbidden, seemed a byzantine answer to a straight forward question. That, combined with the information that Laura "had a lot of trouble getting pregnant" according to Bush's autobiography, convinced me that there are a couple of discarded Bush embryos in that family's past. There are no twins in Laura's family, there are no twins in Bush's family. It must have taken several tries to just produce twins, rather than telling triplets or quads. And that man has no connection whatsoever to his children. Best regards, Carol Wolf

From: Robin
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:14 AM
Subject: Brilliant Counterpunch article
I just read your article at the Counterpunch site on the sexual color of American torture in Iraq and elsewhere and all I can say is it was absolutely brilliant. It was entirely apropos to mention the similarity of the leering crowds at Southern lynchings to the leering soldiers at Abu Ghraib; how it seems that in the US when we want to fuck (literally) the conquered, we seem compelled to precede the proceedings with domination and torture.I live in Texas now and was here when Bush was governor. I have no doubt your speculations on his sexual enjoyment of the torture pictures is right on the money; not just his enjoyment but of others in the highest levels of the cabal. They revel in their total dominance in every aspect of their lives and don't care who suffers because of it. I'm sending this article to everyone I know. Keep on lifting the veil on our sexual nightmares please! especially as they relate to our rulers and their perverted thought processes. Knowing that there are still some Americans left that can see clearly helps to keep some of us out here sane. Robin Lewis

From: ". ." <mesaman@iopener.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:03 AM
Subject: #2...Who's to blame...
Superb article, by the way. Keep writing. People DO listen. Tom Martosko

From: ". ." <mesaman@iopener.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:59 AM
Subject: Who's to blame..
Start with the American people. The 2000 election should never have been that close to allow Bushass to win electorally, if not by popular vote. It was so blatantly obvious what would happen if he got in the White House....at least to anyone who genuinely follows and cares. We, the American citizens blew it and the whole world suffers as a result. We need to get more involved in politics, disgusting as it is. We need(ed) to study...I mean REALLY study the candidates. We need(ed) to speak up about things we find wrong. We need to learn from our mistakes. And I blame the world to a certain extent. It was not enough for countries like France and Germany to simply refuse to participate in something they didn't believe in. To look the other way and allow atrocities to happen, but not engage in same, is deplorable. If the world, or at least those who disagreed with Bushass, had stood up en masse to him from the start and threatened whatever it took, as Kennedy did with Kruschev (spelling?), perhaps it would have made a difference. Perhaps it would have led to a war on many fronts. But had it been me, I would have at least been able to sleep nights or at least for those remaining with a clear conscience even with the thought of a laser guided bomb being primed and readied with my name on it. How about members of the House and the Senate? Impotence is no excuse. Bush very well may be the most loathsome and despicable figure of our moden day. I'm sure history will bear this out. But you know, in some sad way I feel sorry for him. His morals and priorities are so fucked up I believe he truly thinks he IS on a messianic mission. He is not and never was mentally and psychologically fit to hold office. Innocent by reason of insanity. Regards, Tom Martosko

From: Anonymous in Austin
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:44 AM
Subject: Right On
Thank you for your insightful article. That is not the nature of the American people is the biggest load of hypocrisy I have ever heard Bush utter. Here in Texas the nature of American people was displayed when James Byrd was dragged to death behind a pick-up truck by people who knew him. Our response was “we do not need a hate crimes law here in Texas.” Heck, hate crimes seem to be endorsed by Bush and friends. As for pyramids, Bush and his buddy Gay Paris probably did a lot of that shit as cheerleaders in college. Anonymous in Austin

From: Moulinroon@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:20 AM
Subject: Porn job
I recall a story of Bush, as frat president, getting a slap on the wrist for putting out a cigarette on the bare skin of a freshman being hazed. And another story of how, when he was young, he would take friends to his pond and he would delight in killing frogs. Some such individuals go on to murder humans, en masse in his case. I don't know the veracity of either story. Thanks for the article. How about an article on how a sex therapist might treat his sickness, perhaps in group session with Slimesfeld, Kindasleazy Rice, Cheney Weeney, and Wolfinbitch. Now there's a project for ya.

From: "Alan Epstein" <alan@astheromansdo.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:41 AM
Subject: Your piece on the war
Dear Susan, Of everything, everything I've read on the war, yours is the most right on the mark. It's brilliant. Congratulations. Keep at it. You are waking people up. My best wishes, Alan Epstein Fellow Philadelphian (Central High 225), now living in Rome, where they of course understand these things -- deeply. Alan Epstein alan@astheromansdo.com http://www.astheromansdo.com

From: <luckysanfran@earthlink.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 12:04 AM
Subject: Bush POW porn
I also thought about Bush's comment to the effect that being President meant he never had to explain or justify himself or his actions to anyone. I've read Bush's mother Barbara was a bully who got friends in school to gang up on someone she selected. Also the terrible bullying in American schools led to an event like the Columbine massacre.

From: "james" <jxenoph@noos.fr>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: "Daniel"
Excellent piece, thank you. Correction: Daniel, not "David" Pearl. I translated BHL's "Who Killed Daniel Pearl". Best regards, James Mitchell Paris France

From: Novajoe
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: Bush
Dear Dr. Block, A finer, more searing analysis of Bush and his crew than your piece in Counterpunch (5-14) is not to be found anywhere among the voluminous writing about these Freudian gangsters who run our government. Your anger was palpable, expressed with fierce passion and, at the risk of sounding a bit kinky myself, thoroughly satisfying. You portray Bush's sexuality with scathing insight and humor, but I couldn't help thinking, do I really want to know more about this creeep's sexual profile? I can't imagine him as a lover -- probably because I don't want to go there, as they say. I'm no shrink but I smell an Oedipal complex in Boy Blunder. I think he hates his father for the latter's successes, such as they were, and knew in his bitter little heart that he'd never measure up to the old man. He's obviously a mommy's boy, whose alpha-male status fails to comply with the reality of his lackluster past. Since he can't measure up, he finds ways to show up his father. He will be known in history as a better President than Poppy, even if he has to kill the old man (along with thousands of innocents) to achieve his goal. It's all very disheartening. Sincerely, Joe La Rosa

From: anonymous in NYC>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:34 PM
Subject: "Bush's POW Porn" Fwd: Lane McCotter
Dr Susan Block- Forwarding a photo of Wolfowitz, McCotter, Karpinski inspecting Abu Ghraib. *** Note CAMERA former sheriff McCotter wears..**** , NYC

From: Geperry2913@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:45 PM
Subject: one correction
Ms.l Block, I liked your article in CounterPunch. But one little correction: The Pyramids were build the better part of a millennium before Moses lived. This is one of my favorite mistakes, putting you in the tradition of Menachem Begin (no offense intended). Glenn E. Perry

From: Scott K Dolik
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 7:35 PM
Subject: Bush Porn
Great Article. If it were shorter it would have been far more effective. Fewer words makes the punch more to the point. I am afraid you lose your audience before you make your points. I concur with your viewpoints. Scott K Dolik sdolik@cox.net

From: "Jerry ID" <jerry-id@lycos.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:49 PM
Subject: Nice Job
Dear Dr. Block I read your recent "Bush" piece on Counterpunch and I had to write to thank you. I was also pleased and proud to see that you are from my home town of Philadelphia. Please keep on writing and "exposing" this administration for what it is.> Very Sincerely, Jerry

From: <Jeffc2535@cs.com>
To: <drsuzyb@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [TheDrSusanBlockShow] Bush's POW Porn
Suzy, I enjoy your web site. however...... Stop being anti -Bush........hey .....he's doing more then Clinton did, who was the prez in 1993 when the WTC was first bombed ? Kerry, every day he has a new view. and for every Jewish person, Bush is taking on the middle east !

From: "Tony Stevenson" <asteven2@csulb.edu>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:23 PM
Subject: Nice Nation article, butt.............
How could you overlook (and i'm not making this up) the new Inspector (or something) for Abu Grave prison: Colonel Foster Payne!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! we're screwed. thanks.............. tony

From: "Brandon Daggerhart" <88Fingers@dragonmount.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: Bush's POW Porn
I recently read your article entitled, "Bush POW Porn." You're a joke. I can't believe you have the title of a doctor. I hate Bush just as much as the next man, and think he's one of the worst things to ever happen to our country, but your article is nothing more than another chant to raise the Bush-hating mantra another degree. It's so blatantly politically biased that I'm surprised you actually had the gall to post it. It's not so much people like Bush who are making this country a terrible place to live; it's not so much Islamic radical terrorists who are making this world a terrible place to live; and it's not so much sex-deprived lunatic PFC's like Lynndie England who are making this day and age a terrible time to live in. It's people like you who are so caught up im bringing others around them down that makes this world barely worth fighting for. I'm not nearly as ashamed of Lynndie England's shenanigans as I am of yours and persons' like you. You and your title are nothing more than a farce. Respectfully,

From: Steve Wolfson
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 3:27 PM
Subject: Bush's POW Porn
What an excellent article, delivered with passion and honesty. Especially the part that we are ALL responsible for this, and it is our responsibility to do something about it.
Thank you.
Steve Wolfson

From: "Fredman, Sander" <SFredman@LH.org>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 1:49 PM
Subject: your column in counterpunch today
The Jews/Children of Israel in the Book of Exodus did NOT build the pyramids. Those slave labor projects were built by 3000 BC. The twelve tribes of Israel sojourned in Egypt in the middle of the second millenium before Christ. Yours, Sander Fredman

From: Debbie Blalock
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 1:38 PM
Subject: bush likes to watch elephants have sex too!
Dr. Block, Your article, Bush’s POW Porn, which I read on www.counterpunch.com was magnificent. I remembered, as I was reading your dissection of his weird sexuality and Laura’s frigidity, how, when they went to Africa and were taken on a short trip in a game preserve, (wow, I’m using way too many commas here) they came upon two elephants mating. Instead of being appreciative of the fact that he was in the most ancient land on earth, the birthplace of every single species on the planet including humans, and what an incredibly rare opportunity it was to be able to witness two majestic, endangered, beautiful animals conceive another of their kind, he made some crude joke in Laura’s ear to which she replied by slapping his leg. He’s such a pathetic little turd. Thank you for your article, it’s just beyond my ability to describe how succinctly you summed up this whole ugly situation – not only the pictures, but the entire war and the attitudes behind it.Most Sincerely, Debbie Blalock Oklahoma City PS – Fuck Senator James Inhoffe too. He’s an embarrassment to this state (which is unfortunately filled with thousands just like him.)

From: "Joe Ciarrocco" <JCiarrocca@CUDDLEDOWN.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 1:15 PM
Subject: Counterpunch
Hello Susan, Thank you for your excellent article in Counterpunch...I have wondered why more sociologists, doctors, psychologists, etc...have not 'come out' and discussed the insane, brutal behavior of the washington gang. Where the hell are the so-called responsible professionals...I only use that word due to its popular acceptance. I don't like punishment...send every damn politician to prison...stripped of their wealth and ties to fellow gangsters and goons. In some parts of Maine...people stand on side of road holding signs...I will work for food...people need to worry about just living...while the wealthy spend taxpayers money to murder in the attempt to acquire even greater wealth that they don't need. Please keep writing...I am optimistic resurrections can be performed on americans... Joe ciarrocca, Maine

From: "David Vest" <davidvest@springmail.com>
To: "Dr. Susan Block Institute" <drsuzyb@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:50 PM
Subject: your best yet
dear sister suzy, way to blow through that POW porn. I wonder how many "elected officials," watching those videos and seeing those photos, recalled Debby Harry's line from Videodrome: "So how do I become a contestant?"

From: Sueceebee@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:59 AM
Subject: Sex as Torture
Here is an artice on "Pravda" that I think you might find interesting: http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/93/375/12783_torturing.html. I enjoyed your article. Susan Baker Los Angeles

From: "Brandy Baker" <bbaker@ubalt.edu>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:50 AM
Subject: Your Article
Dear Dr Block, Loved your piece on CounterPunch. Best, Brandy

From: "marc" <marc@cybre.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:48 AM
Subject: Bush's POW Porn
Susan- Good piece in Counterpunch. Nice to share space with you:
> http://www.counterpunch.org/salomon05132004.html
> Will think of POW porn while I'm wanking away at the Queen of Heaven masturbateathon tomorrow here in SF. Although the photo of the black clad Iraqi on the box with electrodes reminded me of Diane Arbus "Untitled" series. Nice to see another horny radical. -marc Marc Salomon

From: Anthony Kennerson
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Bush's POW Porn
What can I say, Doc Suzy, to express my thanks to you for posting this essay??? It says all that needs to be said about the sadists and mass murderers (and I just can't believe that I'm using these terms to describe people in MY OWN GOVERNMENT) who allowed this mass rape and brutality to occur, as well as the underlying sexual perversions and psychoses of the mass Right (combined with good old fashioned racism) that rationalizes this aggression. And the real irony of all this is that the same forces who are rationalizing this shit as "just a little fraternity prank" or " rightful revenge for Saddam's crimes" are the same damn people who are so busy trying to wipe out joyful, loving, consensual, and lustfu sexual expression for the rest of us. Go freakin' figure. Forget voting these people out....it's time for Bush and his crypto-Nazis to face a war crimes tribunal. Once again, an excellent series....and with your permission, another fine reprint for my groups. Anthony Kennerson

Indecent Insurgents:
Watch What You Say

From: Heretic Speaks
To: publisher@blockbooks.com
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 12:06 AM
Subject: Iraq & Bush
I read your at the CounterPunch site.I wholly agree with you, Dubya is a Liar, Corporate Lacky, And Perfect Asshole Keep up the good work Sincerely Charles Hacker

From: Theron
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 7:26 PM
Subject: re: counterpunch article
Great article! Awsome comparasons with Stern.

From: Damian Walls
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 6:12 AM
great article in counterpunch. keep saying it!

From: William Decker
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: Trampled Civil Rights///
HI Dr. Susan Block . . .Long time watcher- and enjoy your shows emmencely- Am interested in helping your fight for "liberties". Love Ya' - mr billy

From: Mooshimail@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: Watch What You Say
Dear Dr. Susan Block: I loved your article above. Thank you for it. (Under normal circumstances I could have offered enormous praise for your article, but as you have timely advised, we have to watch what we say. Otherwise, Ayatollah Asscraft will sent us to Abu Graib, and have our asses serviced there for what is actually the supposed crime of the pen).

From: Gloria Bergen
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:44 PM
Subject: Loved your article.
Hi Susan, Loved your insightful, intellectual, poignant article on Counterpunch. As always, Without sex I wouldn't be here, Gloria Bergen Environmental Health and Safety Consultant globerg communications

From: Joe Polivick
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:27 PM
Subject: Counterpunch Article -- Indecent Insurgents
Excellent essay. They're also raping the women, by the way. We've sunk to the lowest low in my lifetime. Keep on writing -- we need your voice. Joe Polivick

From: Anthony Kennerson
To: rox@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:58 AM
Subject: Another Excellent Essay!!! Permission To Reprint At My Groups???
Just saw your latest salvo in CounterPunch....as always, Doc Suzy, you show the ability to cut through the BS and get to the heart of what's really happening. I may not particularly like John Kerry, but considering all that Dubya and his minnions have been doing, I'd still gladly spport him just to get Bush out of there. Well done, Doc!!! May I repost your essay over at my groups??? :-) Anthony Kennerson

The Smackdaddies:
Bush's Taliban Drug Deal

From: POLYGLOTE1@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 12:37 PM
Subject: article
I just read your article on Bush-Taliban, etc. It blew me away! Some of my questions were answered by that. Sometimes I argue with people about the Taliban, Al Queda, etc. and once my sister told me to go live in France. When 9-11 happened, although I had not been reading much at that time, I KNEW there was way more to this than we were being told. The part about giving money to the Taliban for the "drug war" really puts another piece into the puzzle. Thanks for your humor and excellent insight. We have to keep searching for the truth and getting it out as much as possible. Peace, Elizabeth Parker Siebeck Elgin, IL

From: Jdavis1215
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: Counterpunch"TheSmackDaddies"
Fake war for the fake warrior. Great line. Hope ya dont mind if I use it. Just randomly drop it in a conversation, here and there. Kinda like a clusterbomb. Peace out... saed

From: "wwwcbl" <wwwcbl@sbcglobal.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:41 PM
Subject: Hello Susan the Fundamentalist
Hi Read your article of Bush's deal with the Taliban in 2001 on drugs. The War on Terror is full of ironies and the problem is that Americans are renown for their hatred of history, any history. The sickness is apparent in Britain also. Tony Blair twisted his mouth to condemn the Taliban then the Mujahadeen of being the cause of the increase of Heroine addiction in Britain! That's something! It was the British who forced the Chinese to take opium grown in Afghanistan and India thus causing the greatest dope sickness in human history and laying the foundations for Mao's Communist victory. Making Chinese dope addicts was the foreign policy of the British government helped along by American entrepreneurs whose ranks include the Forbes family, the maternal line of John Kerry. The reason John Kerry 'volunteered' for service in Vietnam is probably due to his Forbes family still having significant assets in the region that were threatened by the spread of Communism. Anyway, how dare a British Prime Minister lament about Afghanistan opium making it's way into British lungs and veins! Hypocrite, the Hindus call this Karma and Malcolm X called it 'chickens coming home to roast.' Anyway got off the point which is this, on the surface Christians, Muslims and Jews seem to be fighting each other, though the Christian side is taking great pains not to call it a Crusade. The subtle truth is that the fundamentalist of each of these religions are really fighting each other to keep Women in check. The argument each of these Misogynist religions has used over the centuries is that Women had to be protected from aggressive males. So it is now that each side is using the threat of external terrorism to either remind Women of their dependence on men, or to restore Women to an inferior state of mind, the so-called 'Traditional Values' platform of the Christian fundamentalist. We see this in the way the Jessica Lynch story was done, that a female has no place in the army because they require strong male soldiers to come to their rescue without pointing out that there were far more men then Women that were captured. What the Bush Christian fundamentalist would prefer is Sgt. Rock male heroes like Pat Tillman who was so hyped up on Steroids he made the stupid move of leaving a lucrative NFL contract to go and die in Afghanistan out of a sense of duty! He was stupid because are any of the Bush or Cheney family men so inclined? What about Perle? Armitage? Frist? Pat Tillman is the type of man American women can
> depend on, a fool that will manage to be the only NFL player ever to be killed in combat! But Bush, being the Christian fundamentalist that he claims, should be very concerned about two GI deaths whose symbolism bodes ill for the USA and his political agenda. 1) The first soldier to die in combat was named Jefferson Davis after the Confederate president. He was killed by US troops thus closing the sorry chapter where at last the 'Union' army does the appropriate thing towards the traitors. Right now we are seeing Neo-confederates like Ashcroft, Lott, Delay and other misogynist-racist cement what is in fact a coup et at of the US government, but Davis death marks the end of them. 2) Pat Tillman. The Super bowl controversy over Janet Jackson's breast demonstrated just how deep the pathological hatred for the Feminine goes in Christian America. We had to witness the sad spectacle of college educated Women condemn the Female Breast as 'inappropriate' for children but not say a word about the lessons of violence that American football teaches. Apparently to ignorant or brainwashed by Christian education and propaganda they are unable to understand what they said and to hell with the context of where it happened. We re Mammals and I think the Breast of a Woman is specific to the Child, but then this is the only nation to ever make it a crime for a Mother to nurse Her baby! This is not religion, this is pathology and that is what the Christian fundamentalist have done and have to offer America. They are worst than the Taliban in this regard because instead of merely oppressing Women, the ideal for the Christian fundamentalist is to avoid them altogether! On the issue of Pat Tillman's death, maybe all of the NFL players should be Federalized as Army troops, why if these are the flower of American manhood and will be used as Patriot Propaganda, then why not? The war must be looked at with a spiritual eye. Misogyny is the one thing Jew, Christian and Islamic fundamentalist all agree, and though they are truly trying to kill each other, the main objective is the same, suppress the rise of Women and Feminine Divine. It's the 21st Century and time for these Misogynist to go. Too bad so many innocent people who are in these religions merely from following the society they live in have to die for the pimps who profit off their cultivated ignorance.Lornet Prather

From: Desmond Murphy
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:10 AM
Subject: "Smack Daddies . . . " Counterpunch
Great stuff, Susan Block! ("Smack Daddies: Bush's Taliban Drug Deal". Counterpunch April 27) I thought for a tingling moment that you were going to venture to the unspeakable truth: that Bush and his cronies, at the least, knew of and allowed the Sept 11 attacks; at the most, encouraged and financed the happening. I was disappointed. However, even in my unsatisfied demutescence, I can note that $43 million buys a helluva lot of flying school hours. Mmmmmmm. Desmond Murphy Sydney Australia

From: Janine Kilgour
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 4:58 PM
Subject: from a kiwi living in australia
Dr Susan, I was relieved to read your editorial "Smack Daddy's". I was starting to wonder if the American people are as thick as they seem to come across, due to recent polls that would see the maniac Bush continue to run your country. Small beacons light the screen from the few journo's and writers who see and write about the Iraq war and those preceeding it from American intervention, from the beginning of the story, but why can't your main population get it?? American intervention is not only seeing the rights of Americans slowly slip down the shute, it has an ongoing effect for those of us who have been lied to by our own complicit leaders, as they vie for space up the "bush bum", constantly thinking we are under threat if we do not comply with US wishes on every crackpot war it goes into. I'm sick of the words "but I'm an American", as though being American means your people are warranted to better treatment than other human beings around the world, as though America holds the answer to humanity and they are some sort of chosen race that deserves better than other citizens around the world.I'm angry, really stuffin angry, as are a number of citizens in Australia, just in case Americans thought the tail end of our Prime Minister Howard sticking out the arse of your president meant that we all want a sniff of the crap America feeds us. We read of the revival of the christian "born agains" and the fundamentalism growing within your country, the appalling descision of Bush to back Israeli's war criminal Sharon, and we look forward with great haste to the removel of the " loose nut at the wheel" running our own country. You ask why certain questions aren't being asked of your government and its decisions to fund the anti drug campaign run by the Taliban, we want to know too, but why are those questions still not being asked, and answered? Distrust for America is growing, and we are not looney organisations, just joe bloggs on the street, if only your own media could get across that very few in the western world will, in the end, tolerate religious fundamentalism from America as well. We know the lies and threats committed by this and previous administrations, soon America will find itself standing alone in the world, paying for the free ticket it has awarded itself over many other countries, over many bullying decades.Australia and New Zealand have now been invited to join the Asean conference with regard to opening up an FTA between all the Asian and South pacific countries. We will not need one sided FTA's with America, and slowly but surely America will find itself without the economic clout it so revers. China is growing all the time, in military and economic growth. The foul taste being left in western democracies by their treatment from America, will see them slip out of "the bush bum", as quickly as red hot chilli going through the system. That does not mean that we are keen to see China take America's place, but any superpower needs to be under some sort of control, as all males of our species are not equipt mentally, to have so much power for too long.And poor old God, Allah, or whatever tickles in the religious sects, must be bloody well tired of his name being used as an excuse to cover all deeds of treachery . Your public needs to know how dangerous the Bush Administration is viewed by the citizens of her allied countries, for we will remove any leader who threatens to sell us out to the hypocrisy that is America today.As for the anti-drug issue, prohibition has never worked and never will work, zero tolerance only justifies higher street prices and more crime. Intelligent and ethical discussions on the problems of drugs will be the only thing that helps us control today's youth who can see no out, when a bunch of powerful crazys run the future of the planet, and they are forced to face a bleak future with environmental issues slowly coming to bear on them and their future generations, that is the most important issue facing the world today.As for you Dr Susan, thank you for your intelligent and witty writings, (one of those beacons of light). I would say God bless, but I'm a non believer in main stream religion, so may the angels keep you in their sights.With respect Janine Jarman

From: "alan thompson" <kingkebab@yahoo.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 2:53 AM
Subject: 21 April Counterpunch Bush and Taliban/ request citation OBL quotation/please Dear Dr. Block: Thank you for your article about Bush and Taliban. Could you please send me a citation for your quotation of Osama Bin Laden? Incarceratioon of Jose Padilla, etc. will prove him right unless something is done, I'm trying to spread information locally and OBL's quotation is important. Thank you for your attention. Alan Thompson Czech Republic

From: "D Palm" <dpalminc@hotmail.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:51 PM
Subject: book recommendation re "Smack Daddies" article
Dr. Susan Block: I recently read your article on Bush giving money to the Taliban. In case you aren't familiar with it, Alfred McCoy's book The Politics of Heroin is a very good read about the worldwide Drug War. Gives a detailed account of many misdeeds by our government in Afghanistan and southeast Asia (i.e. South Vietnamese government bringing heroin from surrounding hill country into South Vietnam to sell to US troops, CIA flying raw product from remote hill areas on Air America planes, etc...).> Darren Palm

From: "Webweaver" <webweaver@valley.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 5:21 AM
Subject: nice job
Dear Susan: I enjoyed your article about Bush & the drug wars & Afganistan at Counterpunch! Here at my cabin, we call Ashcroft - Asscrotch. Keep up the great work. grace

From: James O'Neill
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:33 PM
Subject: Counterpunch 23 April 2004
Dear Susan, As always, your article was a great read. I just have one quibble. Why do you assume that Osama bin Laden was the master planner of the 9/11 events? He has denied it, although that of itself would of course not be enough. What is more compelling arises out of one of your own arguments. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and the main military-intelligence players are the main beneficiaries of 9/11. That is not just a coincidence. If you haven't already done so, read David Griffin's book "The New Pearl Harbor" (Olive Branch Press 2004). That, together with Nafeez Ahmed's The War on Freedom, John Dean's Worse than Watergate and Craig Unger's House of Bush House of Saud will provide lots of material to feed more of your articles that I so enjoy.Kind regards, James O'Neill

From: Sandy Lambrecht
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:52 PM
Subject: Bush's Taliban Drug Deal
Wonderful essay - a scathing indictment of the cognitive dissonance so prevalent these days. Personally, I attribute religious organizations objection to 'drugs' as a real war - competition. Both methods have the ultimate goal of altering the reality of their subscribers - one with chemicals introduced in the body to mimic/intensify normal emotions, and the other manipulating powerful brain chemical to do basically the same thing. They are both dangerous, as the body-count from both sides clearly shows, and both treat symptoms - neither contribute to alleviating the emotional pain that has driven so many to resort to such drastic alternatives. Both lead people to do things that are inimical to their own best interests - and those of their society. This is the refuge of the 'drop-outs' - the fatalists who see no solutions, no hope, and no optimism in this world. For all of these people, the world is a painful place and their existence one of endless misery. Such widespread fatalism paralyzes progress and discourages reforms that might improve circumstances - and that must be fought, or the fatalists risk being proven wrong - the bete noir of those who refuse to accept any responsibility for the world in which they live. So much easier to do nothing and live in a delusion. Drugs and religion have had such a love-hate relationship throughout man's history, from times of acceptance of both swinging along the continuum to absolute exclusion. The one constant is the belief that we are all inconsequential - incapable of affecting changes in our society - and thus the necessity to flee to that alternate reality, be it a drug-induced euphoria or the comparable euphoria of a 'religious experience'. The dogged insistence that this world is so bad that the only hope is in an imaginary one. That is the appeal of both drugs and religion, and the promise of drugs and/or religion. It is a dead-end. A cynicism, a pessimism that rejects nature - and life - as eternally flawed. At its extremes, either potion is lethal and destructive - not only to subscribers, but to those around them. They are a threat to all of mankind, and should be viewed with wary skepticism. Their message of hopelessness is infectious and can have broad repercussions. Your memories of the Buddhas, the spectacle of the WTC catastrophe, the tragedy in Guiana, are but a few illustrations of the true danger of embracing an altered reality. Drugs and religion bring misery even to those who reject their misguided perversion - to the families and societies forced to live under such senseless despotism - they are a rejection of life itself. Both offer a false choice to those so disillusioned that their lives have become bereft of all hope and all joy - it's so sad that they endeavor to spread their misery and grief to others. But it certainly doesn't surprise me - misery loves company. Old proverbs are based in universal truth.My compliments on your heartfelt insights into a world gone mad. We do need to ask some very hard questions about our 'wars' and their logic.Sincerely, Sandy Lambrecht

From: MARK BALES
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:10 PM
Subject: taliban bin laden
Interesting article many good points albeit viewed thru a liberal prism. I have question for you and all those involved in reporting and investigating the current problems stemming from captiulation to Islamic extremeism why is no one bring up this http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/3/123551.shtml subject? While not a Bush fan it seems to me that Clinton and his lies are far more culpable for 911 than Bush 1 or 2.

From: PGURRIERI@aol.com
To: Liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:16 AM
Subject: Bushits Taliban 43 million Drug Dealing revisited
WHAT IS MISSING HERE IS THE FACT THAT AT THE END OF THE AFGHAN WAR THE DRUGS WHERE PACKAGED & READY FOR DELIVERY PHILIP GURRIERI

From: HSchm48031@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:32 AM
Subject: Your recent Counterpunch Article
"Those were the days when Kabul career women showed off their legs in western-style skirts and high heels, while the Bamian peasant women wore gypsyish peasant-wear, and only the ultra-religious ladies of Kandahar cowered(my underlining) under burqas whenever they went out." Now that is a liberated commentary of a truly narrow minded orthodoxy.

From: "Herman Mayfarth" <hmayfarth@tktn.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:47 PM
Subject: Osama bin somethin'
Taliban were hyper-religious thugs Well, hey, sounds like them and the Bushistas ought to be shacked up in Kandahar (the "gay" capital of Afghanistan), from what I have heard.:) Revolutionary idea #1: Sand Niggaz is *people* (at least in their own minds), and you will never dissuade them from that idea <heh>. Probably bin watchin too much Amurrican TV, eh? Dey jus' doan' know they is s'posed to be obedient to de white mastah, y'know..Colin Powell not withstanding (certainly not upstanding), though he is trying mightily to set a good example & obey his "bettahs" who misspent 4 years of > their youthful lives at (Y)ale Universitat, thx to daddy's money. Revolutionary idea #2: To the Emperor: > Bush, Emperor of Earth and Ruler of North America:> Excewency: *(but surely I jest, <heh heh>) Howzabout you put your family where your compulsively LYING* mouth is? More specifically: you have draft age (shudder) offspring, so why > aren't they in Iraq? Yeah, I know, they are girls, but these days it is equal opportunity (or is it?) Guess they have too many millionaire boyfriends to fuck, and fortunes to marry into, to be concerned with low class, peasant occupations like, um, er, "military service," (no pun intended).<heh>

From: "Herman Mayfarth" <hmayfarth@tktn.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
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