Editor,
How would a campus organization, Justice For All, have the incredible resources and the megabucks to put up two-story panels full of disinformation in an attempt to persuade us of its point of view? People on campus should know that Justice For All is based in Wichita, Kan., and is funded by extremely wealthy backers who have the deep pockets to fund trucking this display from campus to campus. Justice For All is not a campus organization, as reported in the Daily Lobo.
Why this deceptive smokescreen to hide the fact that the Justice For All display is an example of the few and the very, very wealthy who want to use their big bucks to influence young people on every campus they can reach with their semitrucks? And why the grotesque visual bludgeon of a display that propagates
outright lies?
Whatever side of this very difficult issue we stand on, we should think critically about the context of a display such as this, which is intended not to promote dialogue and free speech, but to overwhelm and disgust. I don't see any other organization on campus that has the resources to truck a display from Wichita to the UNM campus, pay full-time workers to set it up and promote it for a week.
If we really want free speech on campus, then Justice For All can have a table on the sidewalk bordering the Duck Pond with some member students who pass out brochures, just like every other group. Otherwise, we have on the UNM campus only the best free speech money can buy.
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James Burbank
UNM faculty
Editor's note: The Daily Lobo never reported that Justice For All is a campus organization. The Lobo reported that it is an anti-abortion organization with a student chapter at UNM in the Oct. 24 issue.
