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...fiction in "fictitious times." He said: "We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man who's sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts." Some members of the audience stood to applaud, but they weren't seen on camera. What was heard was a caseful of boos. The orchestra began playing its get-outta-here music and Moore declaimed, "We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame...
World security might be enhanced if duct tape were used to arrest the inflammatory rhetoric flowing from the mouths of world politicians. ROBERT W. GRAHAM Fairview Park, Ohio...
...does the U.S. government think it's kidding by declaring an orange-level, high-risk alert [NATION, Feb. 24]? Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's urging Americans to get survival kits, plastic sheeting and duct tape was yet another sad attempt by the Bush Administration to get the American people to support an unjust war by heightening our anxiety. TED KEPES Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...Nation On Edge" depicted the U.S. as living in fear. This is not the America that I see and hear every day. The people buying duct tape and plastic sheeting are the same ones who waited in line to pay $4 a gallon for gas after 9/11. While Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are cowering in a cave or living in a bunker, the majority of Americans are living their daily lives without fear. On a recent trip, I saw a bumper sticker that sums it up best: AIN'T SKEERD. CURTIS TAYLOR Muncie...
...Duct tape? I remember duck-and-cover exercises in grade school, when we got under our desks in drills that were supposed to prepare us for a nuclear Armageddon. I'll go on living my life, breathing the fresh air, thank you. We should be vigilant and proactive in our defense, but I refuse to be cowed by a bunch of shadowy, third-rate jihadists. MARC A. LEHMAN Albuquerque...