Eugene Kane

Reading Kane's editorial from yesterday, I was struck by one paragraph:

Yet just last week, someone called me unpatriotic. It came from a reader upset with my support of the news media's recent disclosures about government monitoring of financial and phone records in the campaign against terrorism. The stories set off a round of debates about the responsibility of the free press to cover news unfettered by government regulation.

Perhaps Mr. Kane, wrapped in "Old Glory", isn't aware that freedom of the press does not include irresponsible reporting. Maybe he isn't aware that such reporting causes the deaths of those troops he so adamant on bringing home. I'd rather have them come home alive! Tokyo Rose was in the media, a tool of the Japanese during WWII, just as the New York Times is a tool of Al Qaeda and the other terrorists organizations.

The history books tell us America's forefathers (a group of white men, some of whom were slaveholders, by the way) had the wisdom to envision an America that would grow and change over time.

I notice he just couldn't resist adding a comment about slavery. One thing he left out, how those unfortunate people became slaves to begin with, like the large Muslim slave trading operation that existed during that time period. How about the black Africans that captured their "enemies" for the purpose of slave trading? The slave trade is one of the ugliest parts of our history, but what does it have to do with the 4th of July?