Editor,
The president of the United States and commander in chief of the American armed forces has vowed to protect and defend Israel, militarily if needed, against Iran.
It's a good thing we just helped out the Shiite Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution win those theocratic elections in Iraq.
I thought George Bush took an oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, not Israel. Is Israel going to give up its secret nuclear programs or its weapons of mass murder? Is the United States going to renounce violence and smart bombs?
If we are going to invade a country in the Middle East that bullies its neighbors, has banned weapons and ignores U.N. resolutions, we should bomb Israel.
The cowardly corporate state-controlled media is too terrified of being called anti-Semitic to do their goddamn jobs - including the Daily Lobo.
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The American people have been lied to over and over - about World War I, Pearl Harbor, World War II, JFK, Watergate, Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Sept. 11, 2001, anthrax, Iraq and Iran - so why shouldn't we question history, including the Holocaust? The truth does not need laws to enforce it.
This has been a bad week for freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Cindy Sheehan was arrested inside the U.S. Capitol building for wearing a T-shirt stating the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq - including her own flesh and blood - and asking how many more.
The wife of Republican Congressman Bill Young was thrown out of the Capitol building for wearing a T-shirt stating "Support Our Troops Defending Our Freedom."
The Pentagon is pissed off about a cartoon in the Washington Post depicting the U.S. Army as a broken, limbless, one-stump man - not that any American soldiers have lost life or limb looking for Iraq's infamous weapons of mass destruction or the deceased Osama bin Laden.
Muslims around the Earth are demonstrating over cartoons of the holy prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him - it is considered blasphemous in Islam to show the image of the prophet Mohammed.
It is too bad we cannot all step back and realize that freedom of the press, freedom of religion and freedom of speech requires some tolerance and respect for opposing views.
I doubt most UNM students have ever been fenced inside a free speech zone - and I thought the whole damn country was a free speech zone.
Judging from the police presence outside El Presidente's hotel, this is clearly a government terrified of its own people.
There is no freedom without the freedom to say no.
Brian Fejer
UNM student
