Jeff Jacoby mess

          I am no conservative and your columnist Jeff Jacoby

    frequently annoys me.  But I wonder if our " permissive "

    society is becoming a bit too punitive. Everyday ones

    reads about nice people losing their jobs for something

    they said - or failed to say .

         To be sure NOBODY has a divine right to be an influential

    newspaper columnist.  Writes a shocked Jacoby : " I

    thought my future at the paper was limitless ".

        Welcome to the REAL world , Jeff. Perhaps you can

    develop more empathy for this society's losers. For

    example the working poor who lack health insurance . Or

    death row prisoners who cannot hire a Dershowitz to

    defend them.

         And Jeff, YOU were spared the " death penalty "

    here. Hope to read your column again in the Boston

    Globe . And I do hope this does not become a Jewish thing !




From: dbrussat@projo.com ("David Brussat")
    To: ar803@osfn.rhilinet.gov
    Subject: Re: [ar803@osfn.rhilinet.gov: Jeff Jacoby mess]
    Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:14:35 -0400


    Ron - Jacoby's column was one long screed against hatred - the
    hatred expressed by the (usually liberal) elite against people who think
    that disagreeing with them is itself a hate crime. Jacoby was purged
    because he is conservative - his stuff has been vetted for years by a
    couple of homosexual copy editors who hate his guts and have been
    trolling for a sackable crime for years. They finally found it, or at
    least found something twistable into a sacking crime. And yes, Ron, if
    you have a family and are given four months' unpaid suspension, you have
    been sacked. It was done this way only so they can argue that they did
    not sack him (and some people will even believe them!). There was not a
    word in his ouevre that suggests he does not have compassion for the
    people you say he should have compassion for; but he was not liberal,
    and only liberals, in the liberal view, can have genuine compassion.
         - Dave