...TOP 3 SG READER COMMENTS...

i thought i'd share some comments of interest this week from subversive garden readers, in response to our posts. we hope you will join the discussion...

immigration arrests:

"I am an illegal immigrant. I arrived here when I was only 2 years old. My brother when he was 12. My family applied for citizenship and went to court but due to what my mom says a 'stupid lawyer', we were mailed orders of deportation. I have experienced these 'raids' firsthand. 4 officers came into my dad's house and arrested him while I was sleeping. They proceeded upstairs into my 23 year old brother's bedroom where I was sleeping. He was placed in handcuffs because he was a threat as someone who does martial arts. I am 17 and am waiting to see my family again. --Anonymous


clintons are what's wrong with politics:

"What is most Rovian about this line of attacks is the subtle racism in it. I have not heard this said elsewhere. But it seems to me that in the United States, if you suggest that a black candidate was a drug dealer you are sending a coded message. 'Can we REALLY trust a black man to be president? You know what they're like.'

Personal attacks are part of American politics. But no other Democrat has yet done anything so irresponsible this year. We have a field brimming with history this year. An African-American, a woman, a Latino. This is a great strength of the Democratic Party. I am convinced it will benefit us electorally in 2008, and for many years to come (especially in light of the GOP's suicidal decent into xenophobia and racism).

Hillary is playing a dangerous game here. If African-Americans come out of this primary process convinced that Hillary won it through racism we are in real trouble in November.
She got away with it this time. One more such trick, and we risk shredding the Democratic coalition, and indeed harming the fabric of American society." --Paul Newell


from our brazilian logo creator, renato:

"Recently I saw the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' by Nobel Prize winner and former future president of the US, Mr. Al Gore. Some jaw dropping facts there, huh? I have also read an article in National Geographic on global warming. It said that we humans are on the verge of going through an actual 'rite of passage', where for the first time we may not succeed.

My wife's brother lives in Rotterdam, Europe's largest port. The city is about 25 feet under sea level and my brother-in-law told me he eventually looks up and see ships passing by on top of a dam. He also told us the Netherlands was under alert a couple of weeks ago due to some serious ice thawing on the North Seas."