Editor,
My concern for UNM and my fellow students grows considerably when people like lecturer Joachim Oberst are allowed faculty status at UNM. It is quite clear after reading his letter in Friday's Daily Lobo that he has little to no experience with the Bible or the teachings of Christ.
He has the audacity to compare the trial of Saddam Hussein, the once tyrannical mass murdering madman, to that of Jesus Christ, the one who led a blameless life to die for our sins. Oberst truly needs some coaching when it comes to being a theologian. For one thing, the arrest, trial and execution of Jesus was illegal by Jewish law. Hussein was given a fair trial, which he botched and made a mockery of. The U.S. didn't run the trial; that was done by the Iraqi people. The outcome would have been the same for Hussein even if the trial had been held by America - a short drop and a
sudden stop.
If Oberst admits that Hussein was evil, why is he protesting his execution? Does he really want a known terrorist running about? If you were against Hussein, celebrate; if you were for him, get out of the U.S. One of the major problems with the U.S. is not that we protest something; it's that some of the protests openly support the enemy. One of the most effective weapons the tyrants of the world have is the U.S. population.
It seems that we are more ready to believe what the enemy says rather than listen to our government. I'm all for people protesting for what they believe in, and I'll defend that right to the death. But when I see my fellow citizens taking the other guy's word over that of our own country's, I draw the line.
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Don't like what we're doing? Fine. Protest all you want, but don't you dare call the U.S. a tyrannical and a terrorist nation.
Aaron X. Lenard
UNM student
