The first letter notes:
American government policies generate and support oppression in the world, often antidemocratic and sometimes heinous. This is absolutely indisputable.and argues that anyone who disputes this is "kill[ing] the messenger."
The second letter makes the same tired comments about "McCarthyism" as most of the other letters. Apparently redundancy is not crime at the Ithaca Journal, as long as it's redundant liberalism.
Ithaca is the City of Evil.
City of Evil bump.