European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 13 opinion Rudy shoots straight on most important Issue Jack Kelly in against abortion under most so Why does Rudy Giuliani firm declaration of support for a procedure i Abo Minate make me More Likely to support him for the Republican Nomina Tion for presi Dent ill be a sin Gleissle voter in if we dont win the War on nothing else will matter very All four of the republicans who have a Realis tic Chance of winning say the right things about the War on so does George Bush is an compassionate Man whose heart is in the right but his Heads been somewhere the mistakes his administration has made have put our mis Sion in Iraq in serious after six years of the Bush and i yearn for compe tence in the White i want a president who will run the govern instead of being intimidated by his own i want a president who will appoint compe tent people to key not the likes of Alberto Gonzales or Michael i want a president who not Only understands whats at stake in the War on but who can communicate those stakes effectively to the which is Why in attracted to his two terms As mayor of new York City Are a masterpiece of effective conservative Gover As former Pat Toomey notes despite powerful local of Giuliani was Able to significantly Cut taxes hold spending in creases Down below the rates of inflation and population growth overhaul the welfare system de regulate and privatize Many local government services and join the fight for school while Rudy Giuliani was the crime rate in new York City fell 56 the murder rate 66 no one could have responded better in the aftermath of 11 than he conservatives tend to fail in Washington because they face a hostile bureaucracy and a hostile but Rudy succeeded despite facing greater hostility in new the others have Good Creden John Mccain is a War hero who knows the military Mitt Romney demonstrated Superb management skills As governor of in rescuing the Salt Lake City and in private no one communicates better than does former Fred Many conservatives have expressed dissatisfaction with their choices for am not among i think All four would make better presidents than the one we have and much better presi dents than any of the democratic but senators Are known More for by aviation than for their Mana Gerial we know what Mccain and Thompson want to but we dont know How effective they be at doing Romney is at least rudys equal As a but Giuliani experience in new York City and before that As a attorney is More directly relevant to the War on so i like Rudy Best on the War on but in not yet in his Cor Ner because the others Are so close and the Paramount Issue int the Only i dont really care what Giulian is personal views Are on he said he thinks the procedure is but that it is a Choice women should be permitted to i do care who he will appoint to the Federal for the most important Domestic Issue is to have judges who will follow the Constitution rather than impose their political views by judicial former solicitor general Ted a solid and competent would that he were attorney general in Stead of Gonzales has been a Friend of rudys since they served want rwcwinc5 fwd together in the Reagan Justice de he says Rudy is a strict constructionist who will appoint judges like chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel if that in pretty much because rudys record on Cut Ting taxes and controlling spend ing is better than that of the but i want to hear More before i make up my it  Hurt to drop some hints that Olson would be his attorney policy is a lesson president Bush never seems to a Giuliani trait i like very much is his tendency to say what he slate Magazine has done a Hilari Ous animation of a 1999 radio conversation he had with a ferret adv in which he said the advocate should seek mental so my in Terest in Rudy cooled a bit because of his apparent waffling on Abor Only a president who tells us what we need to know As opposed to what we want to hear can Lead us to Victory in the War on so though i dont like what Rudy has to say about i do like it that Hes telling me clearly where he Jack Kelly is the National affairs writer for the Pittsburgh pos Gazette and the Toledo Ohio a former Marine and Green he was a Deputy assistant Secretary of the air Force in the Reagan his column appears regularly in stars and limits on anonymity can decrease online vitriol by Tom Grubisich these Days we want transparency in All even private theres one massive exception the it we Are a giant town it has millions of people speaking out in millions of online but most of them Are wearing the equivalent of paper bags Over their we know them Only by their internet handles Stouth planet and other inventive imagine going to a meeting about school overcrowding in your every body at the meeting is wearing you approach a Cluster of people where one Man is loudly complaining about waste in school get rid of the Bureau and then youll have Money to expand the he shaking his Finger at the surrounding you notice his Nam tag Between his you excuse who Are you he gives you a narrowing taking huh going to sic the superintendents police on me hah in any Community in if anti crat424 refused to identify he would be ignored and Frozen out of the civic problem solving but on the inter anticrat424 is continually elevated to the where he can have his Angri est thoughts amplified through cyberspace As often As he he can Call people the vilest names and that will be amplified for All the world to you would think web Sites would want to keep the hatemongers from taking but Many Sites Are unwitting at Wash editors and producers say they struggle to balance transparency against until Many of the Sites posters identified themselves with Anonymous internet handles which were the Sites default people must enter a user id that appears with their com Hal interactivity and communities says the changes move us in the direction of trans but the distinction is not quite a because user ids can be real names or fictional inter net while the site prohibits com ments that Are obscene or otherwise anticrat424 could still find a Well amplified podium at the news and opinion site Huffington requires posters to Register with their real names but maddeningly assures them that it will never use those though not there Are ways to at least raise the Gordon a former lbs news correspondent who owns a popular grassroots site in used to employ the Standard permissive registration but in late turned off by the venom of Anonymous Joseloff instituted a policy requiring anyone who wanted to com ment to use his or her real Joseloff also requires registrants to give their phone numbers Arent posted on the but they give him and his team an additional Check against false policies and constraints understandably vary Between Large and Small but one concern common to All Sites is whistle blow ers what about someone who wants to expose an injustice or whether its a civil servant pinpointing malfeasance in government a waiter complain ing about Lousy tipping at a local restaurant How can they be protected from retaliation online Pioneer Vin Crosbie suggests that Sites whether personal Community Sites or major news providers should be flexible enough to Grant pseudonyms to users who want to blow a this would require Sites to make decisions on a Caseb Case a site that Grants a pseudonym would have to know the posters real name As Well As some facts that Back up any the site  have to Cave in whenever it was slapped with a courts have ruled that both Anonymous and pseudonymous posters have qualified privilege under the first amendment that protects their identities and puts a High Legal bar in front of subpoena if web Sites required posters to use their real while giving the shield of Pseud ony mity when its spirited online debate would continue it might even be enhanced by attracting contributors who Are turned off by name calling and except for the who  want that Tom a former reporter and editor for the Washington in which this column first writes about grassroots journalism for online journalism prickly City by Scott Stantis were Emo com