Random Thoughts From Marybeth

One Thing Leads to Another

First I read the letter from Joseph W. DuRocher to President Bush. It made me wonder who this guy was. Writing a letter is one thing but for it to show up so many other places makes it seem more of a publicity stunt. So I Googled him.

I found he was a public defender in Florida and against the death penalty. He was also a signer of a statement by The World Can't Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime. FIRE also expressed concern about the same event. Doesn't seem like there's much of interest here regarding his letter other than his affiliation with a group who wants to "drive out the Bush regime" but one paragraph in the World Can't Wait statement caught my attention.

The attacks on the student organizers at Hampton University, a historically black college with a mostly Republican administration, is an ugly harbinger of the “dissent-free” future the Bush regime is trying to lock into place.

A college with a mostly Republican administration! Now, that's exciting news.