Editor, It is hard to remain calm in word or thought about the Robert Anderson arrest during the UNM-sponsored forum on mass murder and genocide. The true crime is the overwhelming drive to smother any and all objection to illegal and immoral nuclear proliferation, disguised under the basically ironic, yet diabolical, goal of killing for peace.
Editor, In response to Sam Roth and Terry Mulcahy's letters in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, don't the two of them realize that New Mexico almost certainly would not exist without nuclear weapons? Coming from a small northern town in which most of the citizens are employed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, it's not very hard to see that without such employment opportunities, the surrounding communities would be laden with poverty.
Editor, Well-deserved congratulations to the Lobo football-marketing geniuses. Just as my grandfather listened to his favorite football team - the Green Bay Packers - on the radio from the 1940s to the 1960s, and just as my father-in-law listened to his favorite football team - the Dallas Cowboys - on the radio from the 1950s to the 1970s, now I find myself listening to my favorite college football team - the Lobos - on the radio, too.
Editor, There is no possible case for further research and development into nuclear weapons. Despite the blatant hypocrisy in the argument for more weapons, are we, as an institution of higher learning, going to let this stand? The abuse of knowledge to create weapons of mass destruction that incinerate victims alive, not to mention the environmental degradation of nuclear waste and strip mining, is preposterous.
Editor, Why does the news media keep saying the day John Hyde murdered five people in August 2005 was the bloodiest day in Albuquerque history? Has it forgotten the Hollywood Video murders in 1996, by Shane Harrison, in which five people were also killed? Does the fact that no police were murdered by Harrison make the whole thing easy to overlook? Harrison, Michael Astorga and countless other people in Albuquerque were on parole at the time they committed murders.
Editor, On Tuesday, a group of elementary school children was on campus. I remember coming to campus for a field trip when I was in elementary school. I think these trips are a great opportunity for kids to get a glimpse of college life. However, I was troubled by the fact that these kids, their teachers and chaperones were using the UNM shuttles.
Editor, The fundamentalist and fundamentally un-American leadership in the White House and Washington is attacking everything good that the United States once stood for. It is doing so without regard for the loud and gathering voices of opposition among the population it somehow represents through ignoring.
Editor, The actions of Robert Anderson illustrate just how far some liberals will go to publicize themselves and disrupt lawful gatherings of anyone holding opposing viewpoints. The symposium at which Anderson decided to make a fool out of himself was not a forum for debate.
Editor, The hypocrisy and incompetence displayed by Robert Anderson at a weapons symposium Friday was astounding. His actions were simply a publicity stunt, and their consequences are now being twisted by people like Elaine Cimino in her letter in Monday's Daily Lobo to deceive people.
Editor, New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid was sure to be a big hit with students when she said that the war defending our country is taking money away from colleges. Yes, the war does take government funding, but so do welfare, health care and interstate repairs.
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.
Editor, It is shameful enough that detainees in Iraq have had no rights and have been tortured without proof of complicity in terrorism. It is shameful enough that laws today allow people in this country, even legal immigrants and U.S. citizens, to be held without notification, habeas corpus or trial.
Editor, On Thursday, Worldcantwait.org is holding nationwide protests in 155 locations across the U.S. to drive out President George Bush for all his impeachable offenses. These include treason for lying us into a war with Iraq; treason for providing cover to those guilty of exposing an agent and her whole operation company, which was geared to providing intelligence on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Gulf region; violation of habeas corpus and constitutional protections against wiretapping; violations of constitutional limitations on the executive branch by trying to extend or violate legitimate law using signing statements; criminal neglect in allowing the deaths of thousands to occur in the wake of Katrina over a five-day period; and treason or criminal neglect in allowing Osama bin Laden - the mastermind of the Sept.
Editor, For 230 years, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died defending the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These rights are about to be taken away, not by the terrorists, but by our own government. Americans are too stupid, lazy and cowardly to stop it.
Editor, There are now automated cameras to catch drivers running red lights and speeding throughout Albuquerque. Some have complained that this is unfair, because we all expect to break the law without penalty unless an officer is present. Let's get real.
Editor, I am writing this in response to Damian Erasmus' letter about abortion in Thursday's Daily Lobo. First, I would like to establish the personhood of a fetus or embryo. Despite some people's opinions, there is no debate among the medical community that life begins at conception.
Editor, Caleb Fort's reporting is usually extremely solid. But I was stunned with disbelief to read this sentence in Fort's Daily Lobo article on Friday: "Madrid said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan impact U.S. students. The money spent on the wars could be spent on improving financial aid," she said.
Editor, UNM squashed free speech on Friday by silencing dissenters on nuclear weapons production in New Mexico. Maybe University police were following the orders of Sandia National Laboratories officials present at the symposium when they arrested CNM professor and activist Robert Anderson.
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