Editor,
Were you at the SUB last Friday? If so, you must have seen the man in handcuffs, who UNM Police had thrown to the floor. And you must have seen the people in suits walk right past the police and out the front door with our money.
Last Friday, on the second floor of the SUB, the people in suits, representatives of Sandia National Laboratories and other weapons developers, gave a presentation in which they tried to sell our University the idea of creating a new generation of nuclear weapons. It is part of what our Congress and the military have labeled the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. The project is estimated at more than $1 billion. They want to use our money and our University to create these weapons.
Have they asked you for your permission? They didn't ask me. And my guess is they didn't ask Robert Anderson, the man who the police threw to the floor. He questioned the thieves and tried to stop them from getting out the door without a fight.
The Bush administration has already stolen more than $330 billion to fund its invasion of Iraq. The administration's war budget for this year is more than $490 billion. More than 20 percent of New Mexicans don't have health insurance. Congress has voted itself a pay raise every year for the last five years, while at the same time voting against raising the minimum wage.
Anderson sat on the floor with his hands behind his back. The people in suits smiled, straightened their ties, picked up their briefcases full of public money and walked away. When are the cops going to start arresting the right people?
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Sam Roth
UNM staff
