Opinion

Letter: War profiteering at UNM has caused great harm

Editor, Nuclear weapons are poor tools for making peace. Nukes are indiscriminate weapons of mass murder. They kill women, children, the sick, the ill and anyone nearby. They contaminate the gene pool of future generations with mutations and cancers. That is why weapons of mass destruction are called terror weapons, and people around the world have worked hard to get rid of them.

Letter: Democratic take on family respectful and tolerant

Editor, I wanted to respond to a letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo by Benjamin Sanchez regarding the Democratic Party's stance on family issues. After several readings, Sanchez's letter appears to boil family values down to three main issues: abortion, homosexuality and religion.

Letter: Colonial thinking used to label cultures as evil

Editor, I was disturbed to read Damian Erasmus' attack on multiculturalism in a letter to the Daily Lobo on Sept. 15. The view that one culture must be superior to others mirrors imperialist and colonial thinking; a viewpoint which throughout history has justified oppression and outright genocide toward cultures viewed as inferior or not fully human.

Letter: Meaning of 9/11 stolen for political purposes

Editor, On Sept. 11, 2002, it was raining in Albuquerque. The day fit the somber mood of the people gathered Downtown to pay tribute to those killed on that tragic day one year earlier. On Sept. 11, 2003, it was a beautiful fall day in New York, the time of year in which the city is alive as the suffocating heat of summer has ended.

Letter: UNM should be purged of corrupt administrators

Editor, UNM is unquestionably the most dangerous place in Western civilization to pursue an education. I don't believe too much of what the FBI says, but every year it puts UNM at the top of the list for most campus crime at a big university, and every year UNM responds by saying that the FBI doesn't know how to crunch the numbers.

Letter: Violating international law would hurt U.S.'s image

Editor, As a veteran, I'm extremely troubled by recent efforts exerted by our nation's president. After the Supreme Court declared that his established court system to process terror suspects was in violation of the Geneva Conventions, Bush is pushing for greater executive power to ensure that the CIA and the military can continue to use questionable interrogation tactics, among other things.

Ed toons

Letter: Existence of Noah's Ark proves evolution wrong

Editor, Not to be judgmental, but David Martinez's attitude toward creationism, as shown in his letter to the Daily Lobo on Monday, is analogous to that of the Pharisees toward Christ during the times of the Roman Empire. Even though Christ did many awesome miracles, they stubbornly chose to ignore him.

Letter: NMPIRG seeks to increase number of student voters

Editor, Getting involved in various organizations is a great way to make a difference. Becoming involved in the New Mexico Public Interest Research Group student chapter is an amazing option. Members of NMPIRG are constantly active in campaigns such as the New Voters Project, Affordable Textbooks, Hunger and Homelessness and the Campus Climate Challenge.

Letter: Democratic Party fails to focus on the family

Editor, Growing up, my parents always voted for the Democratic candidate. I remember my father telling me the Democratic Party was for the working people, which my parents were. Both of my parents worked in order to support their large family. Being Roman Catholic, they were generously open to life and had eight children, for which I am forever grateful, given I am the sixth child.

Letter: War on terrorism a bad public relations campaign

Editor, The war on terror is one of the greatest public relations campaigns in history. All one can really do is sit back and enjoy the revolting show. I have a very low suspension of disbelief. Have you ever really seen a real terrorist? I will never understand why Rep.

Letter: Path to peace obtained by accepting compromise

Editor, George W. Bush asked all the nations in the world to stand up for peace at a meeting of the United Nations on Tuesday. The path to peace is not being traveled when people are labeled jihadist extremists, evil or any other term that reinforces the idea that the world is divided into two types of people - the good and the evil.

Letter: Robin Hood didn't take from rich to sell to poor

Editor, I enjoyed both the cartoon and letter on Monday referring to the Bookstore employees implicated in theft as modern-day Robin Hoods. But seriously, who are those people kidding? I know the story of Robin Hood to be about a hero famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor, not an individual who took from the rich and sold to the poor.

Letter: Deportation hinders work as international advocate

Editor, My nonprofit organization, International Peace Initiatives, works with Women Can International, the nonprofit organization that Chao Sio co-founded. This letter is in support of the release of Sio, who has been arrested for being in the U.S. illegally.

Column: Criminal punishments skewed

by Joe Buffaloe Daily Lobo columnist There's a saying that the U.S. legal system is the worst in the world, except for all the rest. I can't say if I agree with this or not, because I haven't been arrested in every country in the world yet. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist - or even a UNM undergraduate - to see that our courts do stupid things from time to time.

Letter: Creation science Web sites contain numerous errors

Editor, I can readily accept Carolyn Johnson's assertion that evolution is a belief, but the balance of her letter leaves a lot to be desired. The two fossil hoaxes she mentioned have been known to be hoaxes for a long time, and one of them - Nebraska Man - was exposed some 70 years ago.

Letter: Deportation of lecturer would leave UNM at loss

Editor, This letter is in regard to the sudden arrest and possible deportation of UNM lecturer Chao Sio of Kenya. Sio is a respected member of the staff in African-American Studies and teaches Swahili and a psychology course related to refugee well-being.

Letter: Theory of evolution has the fewest missing links

Editor, I am responding to Carolyn Johnson's letter in Friday's Daily Lobo. First, I would like to point out that a scientific argument does not have to rely exclusively on facts. Logical, sound reasoning is the distinctive feature of any true science, and that allows for unproven theories.

Letter: Evidence for evolution deserves consideration

Editor, In a letter published last Friday in the Daily Lobo, Carolyn Johnson spoke out against the teaching of evolution as a fact and gave some reasons to support the theory of creationism instead. However, while I neither agree nor disagree with Johnson, I can't help but point out that the reasons given by many supporters of creationism are just as insubstantial as their reasons for condemning evolution.

Ed toons