Letters to the Editor, August 25, 2003

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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 
http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/Evans/main.asp
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,

I have not even settled down in the comfort of my home to digest the
on-going cross-examinations of the lies in US and UK when another lie
emerge with the Australian Government. Three governments come together and lie together. Incomprehensible. Lies, lies and lies.

Who should we fear most - terrorist or liars?

Terrorists, no matter how coward and heartless they are, executed their act
for some reasons. In fact most of the terrorist attacks are linked to
repressed and suppressed groups of people and most of these groups are
Muslims. Palestinians, Chechens, Afghanistan and now the Iraqis to name a
few. These repressed groups of people fight back and choose the most simple
but deadly form of attack - suicide bombing. They attack so that they are
heard, even if it brings deaths to innocent people. They are the 'collateral
damage.' They fight with the motives to free themselves and they don't lie
in their fight. The Palestinians and Chechens fight for their land, the
Afghans and Iraqis fight to drive away foreign invaders. But they are labeled
terrorists because they kill innocent victims.

However the US, UK, and now Australian leaders lie to their own people and
the world to go to war. They are not the repressed and suppressed
Governments but they also chose the path that killed innocent people, who are also 'collateral damage.' But they are not labeled as terrorists eventhough they
kill innocent victims.

Should we be more fearful of the 'terrorists' who kill innocent people or the
'liars' who kill more innocent people?


Fauzi Shahab
Malaysia

 

 


 

 

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

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 








 

 
Earth, a planet hungry for peace

 

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).
The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

 

 

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