Editor,
As an alumnus of UNM, I need to respond to the inane article published in the Daily Lobo on Nov. 8, “UNM group condemns (un)Occupy at teach-in.”
In particular, Donald Gluck “thinks (un)Occupy protesters’ actions have been un-American.” This is a typical and childish Republican statement unworthy of a University student, a seeker of truth. I am certain you could have thought of something more honest.
Painfully, our State Rep. Conrad James was even more shameless with his diabolical “What we’re trying to do is dig into the details of what led into the financial crisis for the last couple of years.” Couple of years? How about the last 30 years, beginning with Reagan and his tax breaks that he said would trickle down and did not, culminating in our great “mission accomplished” George W. Bush and his two wars, one illegal, both of which were put on a Chinese credit card. He, too, initiated more tax cuts for the rich.
Now, up from the smoking ruins come the Republicans with their Tea Party goons and Wall Street bankers, hell bent on completing the destruction of our middle class and the Obama Administration, thereby further wrecking our economy these last couple of years.
They have also declared Obama a one-term president, and filibustered the 143 bills the Obama administration has tried to enact to create employment for the 15 million Americans desperate for jobs.
When you exercise your Constitutional right to express your views (at least UNM President David Schmidly allowed you the comfort of the SUB in order to exercise your right to assemble) you owe it to yourselves to be accurate, honest and as truthful as possible. To put it more clearly, I leave you with the thoughts of the last great statesman Republican and founder of a great university:
“Shake off all of the fears of servile prejudices under which weak minds are serviley (sic) crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.” –Thomas Jefferson
Jack Smeltzer
UNM alumnus
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