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ODIOUS AMERICA
A big thumbs down on Merrill’s Roxy Cinema for exhibiting Dinesh D’Souza’s odious right-wing pseudo-documentary, America: Imagine the World Without Her. This alleged “film” is nothing more than a dog whistle for dim-witted Teabaggers and other low-information reactionaries. A poorly made, intellectually dishonest infomercial for oligarchic capitalism, America has earned one of the lowest ratings — 9 percent — ever recorded at the film-review website Rotten Tomatoes. Consider the source: D’Souza is a neoReaganite Republican propagandist and all-around lap dog for the 1 percent. (He is also a convicted felon; having pled guilty to election fraud in May, he will be sentenced later this year.) The world is awash in great, new independent documentaries. Don’t insult our intelligence with this sort of swill. Bob Niemi WINOOSKI
THOU DOTH PROTEST TOO CLOSE
I live and work in the vicinity of Planned Parenthood and must walk by there at least six times a day [Off Message, “Burlington Will Investigate Alternatives to Buffer Zone,” July 14]. So it is fair to say that I have seen my fair share of scenarios related to the protesters. Now that protesters are able to stand
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in what was formally a protected area, I have observed an alarming increase in coercive tactics on the part of some of the protesters. One woman in particular I have observed chasing people, trying to give them literature that the people had refused to take. She even tried to give literature to the volunteers ushering at the door of the clinic. More alarming, this same protester was taking pictures of people leaving the building with her cellphone. I don’t know what the solution to this issue is, but I am afraid that things are heating up. As far as I can see, it is stemming from the protesters who lack respect for the consumers who are trying to conduct themselves appropriately. Donna Constantineau BURLINGTON
BURLINGTON COLLEGE FLUNKING OUT
The real story is different [Off Message, “Burlington College’s Financial Troubles Detailed in Letter From Accreditor,” July 22; Last 7: “Accounting 101,” July 23]. When Jane Sanders and the BC board negotiated the purchase of the Diocese property on North Avenue, there was no intention to sell off a significant part of this remarkable, unique and essentially public landscape to ordinary speculative development; their expectations were that the loans would be repaid by a large increase in enrollment.