Dear Free Press:

"Stay In Bed" by Daniel Patrick Welch, though admirable in its sentiments, is not a worthy article. Do you print anything that's submitted?

He uses the word "thing" SEVEN times. The article is a grammatical joke. It jerks the reader around. It is self-important, vague, contradictory and garbled as hell, and in general says nothing! This is Comp 101 -- "My Jumbled Feelings about the California Recall" And since it reminds me of a student effort, I'm going to red- pencil it. This stuff is utter crap.

Daniel Patrick Welch should stay in bed next time he gets the urge to write!!!!

When we think of the word "terrorism" we think of the events of 9/11 or the ongoing bloodshed in Israel and the occupation of Iraq by our own military. But there are many other forms of terrorism that occur right here in our own country and communities.

When I think of terrorism I think of people like Matthew Shepard, Steven Goedereis, Brandon Teena, Charlie Howard, just to name a few, who were brutally murdered because of who they were. This is a form of terrorism.

When I hear people praising Hitler and the Nazis, encouraging the "white race" to fight back and kill all those who don't fit the "aryan theology", this is terrorism.

When people like Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh,etc attack and demonize gays and lesbians, women, Bill and Hilary Clinton, and so on, this is terrorism.

Domestic violence and sexual assault, these are also forms of terrorism.

When I read about the thousands of gay youths who endure endless harassment at school, resulting in the too high rate of suicides, this is terrorism.

Dear Mr. Wasserman:

I am sorry to correct you, but the "IV" in "IV Reich" is already taken. You must be refering to the "V Reich" in your article about the Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger melange.

When you have illegal invasions, anexations, racist biased policy, ethnical cleansing, colonial wars and the like, there is no need to trace any association with the former III Reich, the likeness is already striking. The North American-Israeli Empire more than deserves the title of IV Reich.

Best regards,
Eugenio Marins
Brazil

Dear Mr. Rove:

  I write to ask you to resign from the White House staff. Recent press reports   have indicated that, while you may or may not have been the source of the Robert   Novak column which revealed the status and name of a covert operative, the wife   of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, you were involved in a subsequent effort to push   this classified information to other reporters and give it even wider currency.

  This itself may be a federal crime, but regardless of that fact, your actions   are morally indefensible.

  In my view, it is shameful and unethical that an Administration that promised to   govern with "honor and integrity" and "change the tone" in Washington has now   engaged in an orchestrated campaign to smear and intimidate truth-telling   critics, placing them in possible physical harm and impairing the efforts and   operations of the CIA.

  Recent reports indicate that you told the journalist, Chris Matthews, and   perhaps others, that Mr. Wilson's wife and her undercover status were "fair   game." Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, Oct. 13, 2003. Since these

California awoke one morning to find itself governed by a giant cockroach. It's official: we are now living inside a Kafka novel-though even Kafka couldn't have predicted the turn of events that would bring us to this point. To be fair, Schwarzenegger is not a hyper-violent, frozen, misogynist, monosyllabic robot. He just plays one onscreen. In reality, he is-well, by now we all know who he is.

The frightening part is that the people of California knew, too. There is some indication that tracking polls showed his support slipping in the wake of all last week's revelations. Polls are tricky things, of course, but if this is true then the election happened just in time. The republicans have become adept at cherrypicking such opportunities and milking them for all they're worth.

The thing to remember is that things are much worse on a national scale. I'm not sure if it makes it easier or more difficult to get out of bed to remind ourselves that no matter what happened in California, war criminals still skulk around the White House, and crimes against humanity continue in our name all over the world. A cornered dog may be a