From the Austin Chronicle's Postmarks Online for 11/11/2004:
Date Received: Tue., Nov. 9, 3:27PM
BOYCOTTING EXERCISES REAL POWER
Dear Editor,
Your government is dead. Corporation has become your real leader. Boycott! Voting is dead. Protest is dead. Political redress is dead. Boycott! Striking is dead. Rallying, demonstration, and appeal are dead. The airwaves are dead. Exercise your real power. Organize and boycott!
Stanley Gilbert
Date Received: Mon., Nov. 8, 2:29PM
WE WILL BURY YOU - A BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN THOUGHT
Dear Editor,
I may be swimming upstream here but I have never been more proud of the American people as I was after this election. For two years we read articles from professors, who can't get real jobs, claiming to know how to fight a war and run an economy. We were lectured by rock stars and actors, who know more about drugs than politics. We got to see the merger of the so-called mainstream media and the DNC in an effort to bring down our president. And of course we were reminded daily how the cowards on the European continent felt about us and our president. The American people responded to these pressures in typical American fashion. We gave them the middle finger and the Bronx cheer. That is precisely why we are unique and the greatest country the world has ever known.As for my suicidal liberal brethren, please keep cozying up to people like Michael Moore and Eminem. Keep on trying to legalize drugs and pornography. Don't stop making fun of religion and attacking institutions like marriage. Continue with your stupid "die-ins" and loony MoveOn.org Web sites. Because you know what? You are not the majority! And the majority hates this kind of shit. You think this election was an aberration? Go look up how long the GOP has controlled both houses of Congress. Continue to label us stupid and unsophisticated and we will bury you. Then you really will know darkness and winter.
Greg Solcher
Now imagine there are millions of people like this living in the same country, same states, and same cities. Some are even in the same households.
Just some supporting anecdotes for Billy Beck's bleak vision.
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I've always felt that letters to the editor should not be anonymous. Here is what I am fairly sure is Greg Solcher's home address:
Greg Solcher
1701 Resaca Blvd
Austin, TX 78738-5377
(512) 263-3270
I believe that he is an attorney in Austin and that such letters are common from Mr. Solcher. He also apparently hates college professors. http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-08-06/cols_postmarks.html (Just search for "Solcher" on the page.)
Posted by: C.E. on November 17, 2004 03:20 PM