On April 29th, the New York Times ran an editorial claiming that the American people had 'gotten over' Selection 2000. Many of us wrote to the Times to set them straight, including Dr. Mike Byron

From: Dr. Mike Byron
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:08 PM
To: letters@nytimes.com
Subject: I am not 'over it."

Dear New York Times,

With respect to your editorial of last April 29, 2001 entitled "Mr. Bush's Beginning" please be advised that I am most certainly not over Bush's theft of the 2000 US Presidential election. I would like to add that the lack of coverage of frequent, well-attended, anti-coup demonstrations such as the May 19th voter marches in Washington D.C. and San Francisco California, (in which my wife and myself were participants) has led me conclude that your publication, along with most other 'mainstream' media outlets in the US have become mouthpieces for the same corporate conglomerates which installed the Bush regime and fully control his 'administration.' I wake up with a knot of fear in the pit of my stomach every morning due to my dawning, directly observed, certainty that not only have we lost true political democracy in this once great nation, but due to your acquiescence, we have lost a free and independent press as well. God help us all! Sustained, unrelenting, peaceful non-violent protest against our ever more entrenched corporate oligarchy in now the order of the day.

Again: WE ARE NOT OVER IT. WE SHALL NEVER RELENT.

Sincerely,

Dr. Michael P. Byron
Adjunct or visiting Professor of Political Science UCSD, USD, San Marcos State, Saddleback College, Palomar College, San Diego Mesa College.

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