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I have NO idea what world leaders are thinking when they think that
blowing people to bits will make the people left obey them. All
they have to do is be NICE to people and people warm right up.
Sharon, Bush, etc are WIERD. I don't know what else I can do to
point that out. Also, when the War on Drugs began there were 1
million addicts and 2 agencies. One trillion dollars later,
there are 5 million addicts and 58 agencies. Go figure. And
as for the War on Terror, America is now the fourth largest target
nation in the world (outside of Columbia, Palestine and Pakistan) and we
have been on Code Yellow for two years thanks to the Bush policies.
The War on Terror is a complete failure!
Ask your kids. Ask anyone!
Meanness does not work! Duh.
Best regards, Jane Stillwater
Dear Editor and Readers,
My brother was sacked by the Editor of my
country's main newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, after strong protests
from factions sympathetic to the US-UK-Australia-Zionist etc right-wing
axis.
You can see the cartoons that offended these
right wing fanatics at
You can write to the Editor at
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/letters/
in praise or protest at his actions.
You can comment at my free open democratic
speech discussion (hosted in France for safety!) at
http://chalkon.com
which is a neat name to chalk around our towns, thus beating the mass
media by becoming a mass media.
My poetry is at http://apoem.com
and I have been banned for many years in the media here.
Kindest Regards to you all from New
Zealand,
From Brian John Evans, Auckland
New Zealand.
The editorial, "The UN must step in
now," is either sardonic or a Bizzaro one. A review of the facts
for the past several years shows that:
1. Iraq has been bombed
on a regular basis by the US and the British.
[either with UN blessing or in violation of UN resolutions]
2. Since 1991/92 the
Iraqi people have endured sanctions, embargoes that
have affected their livelihood, their health and the well being of their
children.
3. Mr. Annan did
absolutely nothing to influence George Bush from invading
Iraq.
4. Newsreports from Asia
state that the building occupied by the UN in
Baghdad was protected by US military personnel with machine guns.
5. During the Clinton
administration, the Secretary of State [Ms. Madeleine
Allbright] in a television interview said that "even if it took the
killing of over
500,000 Iraqi children it would be worth it to remove Saddam
Hussein.
6. The neocons in
Washington do not particularly care about the UN one way
or the other. [did Washington wait for the UN inspectors to do their
work?]
7.If the UN was derelict
in all of the above why should any one think that
stepping
in now would make things whole again?
8. The one country in the
area that has acquired territory and is the most armed
has managed all that without a single UN person within its boundaries.
9. Based on the above it
looks like the UN is a useless entity.
10.The above in no way
condones the killing of other human beings regardless
of the methods used.
Sincerely,
Armand DeLaurell
usa
Dear Editor,
Why my little 4-year old is smarter than Bush!
Dear Editors:
The other day my little 4-year old son came up to me while we were
fishing and said "Daddy, that man threw a bottle into the stream.
Won't it hit a fish and hurt it?" It's too bad Bush doesn't
have the brains to ask such questions of his Corporate Cronies who
funnel big bucks his way, in order for Bush & Cheney to enable
corporations to poison the planet like pigs!
It is interesting that my young son instinctively understands the
principle that polluting the environment is bad, while the Bush Regime
doesn't. Lack of respect for the natural world is destructive:
whether it is an individual throwing garbage onto the roadside or into a
stream or field; or on a massive scale, corporations dumping their waste
& garbage into streams, rivers, lakes and the oceans, or spewing
their poisonous emissions into the atmosphere.
The Bush Regime are good at exploiting the misery of the vulnerable to
the glee of their Corporate Paymasters, as described in "Bush's
pollution charter - Republican supporting energy firms set to escape
controls on emissions", by Julian Borger in Washington, Saturday
August 23, 2003, on http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1028090,00.html
. An excerpt:
"The Bush administration plans to open a huge loophole in America's
air pollution laws, allowing an estimated 17,000 outdated power stations
and factories to increase their carbon emissions with impunity.
Critics of draft regulations due to be unveiled by the US environmental
protection agency next week say they amount to a death knell for the
Clean Air Act, the centrepiece of US regulation.
The US accounts for a quarter of the world's carbon emissions, 10% more
than all of western Europe combined. Environmentalists fear that, by
relaxing its controls even further, America could undermine attempts to
persuade other countries to stick to the targets laid out by Kyoto.
"The companies could completely rebuild their plants by gaming a
gimmick that is designed to be gamed," said John Walke, of the
Natural Resources Defence Council, a pressure group which leaked the
draft."This is a massive giveaway," Mr Walke said. "The
Bush administration, using an arbitrary, Enron-like accounting gimmick,
is authorising massive pollution increases to benefit Bush campaign
contributors at the expense of public health.""
This wholesale and wanton rape of the environment by the Bush Regime is
indicative of their contempt for America and the World, and their
abandonment of all morality and enlightened values to the greed and
corruption of their Global Corporate Empire.
It is mankind's responsibility to protect this planet and to enforce
regulations upon corporations that will otherwise pollute our streams,
rivers, lakes and oceans, and rape & ravage our forests and wildlife
habitats, leaving devastation in their wake that destroys wildlife, as
it will ultimately destroy ourselves. We are part of the natural
world, not separate from it, and the planet cannot continue to sustain
the devastation caused by our rampant over-consumption and lack of
regulation on toxic waste, emissions & trash dumped wantonly into
our environments.
Bush & Cheney insidiously censored a tax-payer funded report by the
EPA pointing out that global warming represents a real and serious
threat to the world, and that environmental protections and standards
must be improved. The Bush Regime's Global Corporate Empire didn't
like to be told that they must behave responsibly and not dump garbage
& waste into the natural world that ends up killing wildlife and
poisoning us all.
Read a brief but insightful comment by Elise Lazar, Salt Lake City,
"Protection vs. Plunder" on http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08232003/public_f/public_f.asp
.
While explaining to my young son the bottle thrown by the man probably
didn't hit a fish, but it makes the river ugly, and, humans, animals and
fish alike are all harmed by garbage & trash dumped into their
habitat, I also felt pride in his perceptive understanding of the
wrong-headedness of the act he had witnessed. Most 4-year olds are
smarter than Bush because they are able to reason and extrapolate that
horrific consequences ensue from gluttony & ugly actions: something
Bush is incapable of, due to his corruption, arrogance and stupidity.
Sincerely yours,
Emily B. Watson
Dear Editors:
The Bush Regime's neo-con right-wing extremists have awarded more
rights, privileges, tax cuts & welfare-for-the-rich, and vast
wealth (tax loopholes, subsidies, corrupt contracts, etc.) to
corporations and their super-rich cronies, than at any time in modern
history.
"We the People" are the citizens of the USA who do not
believe that Corporations and Robber-barons should be allowed to
highjack our system and exploit our environment and our people, for
their greedy & selfish lusts for power & riches. We have
the right and the power to take our system back for the benefit and
welfare of all citizens, and not just the campaign contributors who
prop-up Bush's corrupt regime. Bush has created a $450 Billion
deficit in 2003, ($1.9 Trillion by end of 2004!), losing 3 Million
Jobs on his watch, and this doesn't include his obscene squandering of
$70 Billion thus far in Iraq with no end in sight at $4 Billion per
Month: all paid for by the good ole' working class Americans.
Corrupt Cheney, for example, rakes in over $327,000 extra big bucks
(over & above the $1 Million/Year from Halliburton!) & Bush
gets a bonus of extra $44,500 from their unsavory tax cuts to the
rich, while the rest of us pay off their Lav! ish Debts! (Read
"Upper-Class Tax Cuts, Working-Class Soldiers" on http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15616
)
"We the People" are the citizens of the USA who believe that
all peoples should be free to practice their faith and religion in
their Church and at Home, but may not force their beliefs down the
throats of others, or impose them upon civil government, as our
Founding Fathers intended a firewall of separation between Church
& State (read (1) America's Founding Fathers Intended Separation
of Church and State on http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=SamAdams&static=6754,
(2) USA Constitutional Principle : Separation of Church and State on http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=SamAdams&static=6691
).
"We the People" are the citizens of the USA who do not
believe that a President should be allowed to commit Crimes Against
Humanity, by waging an illegal & immoral incursion upon other
countries, having lied (a crime under the US Constitution), massacring
hundreds of our Soldiers who died based upon a false pretext, instead
of defending our country, and killing thousands of innocent civilians
to enrich Corporate Robber-barons. Two more US Soldiers were
killed last night, bringing the daily Death Toll to over 315, with
over 7000 innocent Iraqi civilians slaughtered to-date.
Recall Bush who has corrupted our systems by fear-mongering, lying to
Americans, and raping America and Iraq on behalf of Corporate
Robber-barons (refer to "Arms Trade Resource Center, New Numbers:
The Price of Freedom in Iraq and Power in Washington", by Ceara
Donnelley and William D. Hartung, August 2003, "Introduction: A
Privatized Occupation" on http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/updates/081203.html
.)
"Republicans claim a recall is so necessary in California
because: The state budget went from a big surplus into a major
deficit, jobs are leaving the state, teachers are being laid off,
energy and health costs are skyrocketing. Well, if the Republicans
want to recall incumbents based on this standard, then they should
start with their own Chief."
Despite the lack of a constitutional revision for recalling the
president, the folks at BushRecall.org are pushing for a vote.
Visit http://www.bushrecall.org/petition/
, and sign the following petition:
We the undersigned believe that George W. Bush has failed to provide
our country with responsible and effective government. The three main
pillars of this recall effort are as follows:
1. Projections of a federal budget surplus have been wiped out and
replaced by deficit estimates of $455 billion.
2. President Bush has repeatedly made false and misleading statements
to the American public on a wide range of issues, from his domestic
policies like "No Child Left Behind," to the war in Iraq.
3. The nation's economy is dragging. Almost three million Americans
have lost their jobs under the Bush administration. The President is
akin to the CEO of the country. He should be held accountable in times
of bad performance.
By signing this petition, we are going on record to call for the
defeat of President Bush based on his failure as our nation's chief
executive.
Sincerely yours,
Renee Hallaby
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