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Every other week I get these messages and feel like posting them because...I just do.

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I have a reputation here on OpEdNews for "not respecting the email system on OpEdNews." Maybe...maybe not. I never have said I don't like OpEdNews messages in my mailbox. I do not like messages like the one below that I believe should be posted on articles and not shrewdly sent privately.

I came to this country for reasons one so young and inexperienced so you can not yet understand. In this day and age where homosexuals freely proclaim themselves, I can not understand why cowards still try to convince people that they are patriotic instead of telling the truth. There is no shame in being a coward. Not everyone can face up to the brutal realities in this world. Please Kevin, stop kidding yourself, you are what you are.

Renato Villareale
immigrate and U.S. Veteran

Renato, try me. Why did you come here? Did NAFTA ruin your country? Did we bomb your country of origin? Did the CIA conduct a clandestine mission that sent you to America seeking refuge? What was it?

Homosexuals=cowards? No, I believe homosexuals equal brave and courageous Americans because they were persecuted and ostracized in the 1980s and now have risen to a point where younger generations see the truth that practicing homosexuality will not ruin Christianity or spawn a plague of bestiality in America.

Not everyone can face up to the brutal realities. You are right. But not everyone sends a message privately to an author that they could have posted on that author's article.

You see, to me, if you are going to call me a coward, you better post it on my article so people can see you taking a stand against the "lies" or "fallacies" I promote. And trust me, I will see it before Rob or any other editor removes it for being a personal attack. I will consider what you have to say and respond.

Next time, have the courage to post on my article. I expect you are responding to my article about Berkeley. Well, if you really want to fight the cowards in Berkeley, go join Move America Forward. They would love to have you.

 

Kevin Gosztola is a writer and curator of Firedoglake's blog The Dissenter, a blog covering civil liberties in the age of technology. He is an editor for OpEdNews.com and a former intern and videographer for The Nation Magazine.And, he's the (more...)
 

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