Opinion

Letter: Eat chicken substitutes to stop bird flu's spread

Editor, Avian flu has been all over the news for a number of months now. The consensus seems to be that we are due to have a worldwide pandemic of the flu that will result in the death of millions of people. While H5N1 bird flu hasn't been found in the United States, in 2004 we had a number of confirmed cases of H5N2 bird flu in Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and Texas, among other states.

Letter: Violence more offensive than preacher's words

Editor, It was once said that before one can truly know where one's enemies stand, one must first know where one is standing. In her letter to the editor in Monday's Daily Lobo, Katarina Garcia's commentary was outrageous, particularly for a college-educated person in 2005.

Letter: Corrupt politicians must face justice for war crimes

Editor, The president and vice president of the United States are responsible for their offices. I recently sent a letter to my only representative in the U.S. Congress, Heather Wilson, about the impeachment of George Bush and Richard Cheney for treason, war crimes and misdemeanors.

Column: Liberals doom America

by Andrew Price Daily Lobo columnist We have just lost soldier No. 2,000 in Iraq. Although invading Iraq and Afghanistan and trying to give the people of those countries democracy and freedom was absolutely the right thing to do, we never should have done it.

Letter: Social liberalism helps sustain public education

Editor, Social liberalism is sustaining and encouraging public education, rather than running amok as John Bauer states in Monday's Daily Lobo. His diatribe enthusiastically paints broad political canvasses with a few tiny brushstrokes and lambastes the privileged halls of academia while ignoring the poor and unfortunate.

Letter: U.S. misguided in thinking terrorism can be fought

Editor, I would like to comment on letters this week regarding terrorism and its causes. I was waiting for some UNM history, political science or military instructor to speak up, but none have. First, terrorism is a tactic. You cannot declare war on a tactic.

Letter: Extremist Christians ruin teachings of Christianity

Editor, Lately, I hear more and more cases of extremist Christians offending the general public in attempts to "save" us. It is painful to hear about Christians being stereotyped as war-mongering, judgmental, self-righteous naysayers - especially by those who are extremists themselves.

Letter: Liberalism run rampant is wrecking public education

Editor, An illustrative example of the progressive disintegration of our public school system - and therefore our culture - was to be found in last Wednesday's Daily Lobo. In a letter run in that issue, a student - apparently a young want-to-be lawyer - ranted and whined about not being able to use her calculator for the final exam in a math course.

Letter: Rep. Wilson must not fall for sneak attack on refuge

Editor, In the next few weeks, a showdown vote on protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is expected in both the United States House and Senate. Having failed at previous attempts to drill in this pristine natural treasure, the oil industry and their allies in Congress are using sneaky, bureaucratic maneuvering to include Arctic drilling in the federal budget reconciliation bill.

Letter: Facing hellfire preachers? Smile, wave and ignore

Editor, Regarding the alleged battery upon preacher Matt Bourgault, I relate entirely to both sides. Emotionally propped by my indoctrination as a hellfire Christian, I was a street preacher for years. Later, as a more emotionally stable agnostic with a Ph.

Ed Toons

Letter: Students should be free from religious harassment

Editor, I am appalled at the University's stance on the incident involving the hateful evangelist. Sure, he had every right to be on campus because of his permit, and he had every right to say whatever he wanted - as long as it does not violate the rights of UNM students.

Letter: A strong U.N. could end every type of terrorism

Editor, In a number of recent letters to the editor in your newspaper, the term terrorism has been used in a limited sense to mean violence against Western people and interests. As defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica, terrorism is the systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective.

Ed Toons

Letter: History's best Christians refused to fight in war

Editor, I applaud Colin Donoghue's column in last Friday's Daily Lobo, "Jesus was no Republican," and Ralph Arellanes Jr.'s letter in Monday's Lobo. Jesus taught us to love our enemies and to do good to them. During the first 200 years after Jesus, no followers of Jesus became soldiers.

Letter: Confrontational preacher uses un-Biblical tactics

Editor, I will agree with Matt Bourgault, who demonstrated outside the SUB on Wednesday, that evangelism is the responsibility of Christians, as commanded in the book of Matthew. And I agree that college campuses can be places of licentious parties and moral decay.

Letter: Intolerant preachers forget no version can be certain

Editor, Wasn't that Pat Robertson I saw in front of the SUB on Wednesday? He may not have looked like Robertson, but he sure sounded like him. I guess the guy with the banner spouting off about how everyone was going to hell was the campus evangelist Matt Bourgault, and his message was all too familiar.

Ed Toons

Letter: Reader confused about bigger euthanasia issues

Editor, I feel compelled to respond to Carolyn Johnson's letter regarding the Final Exit Network. While I share her confusion as to how an organization which endorses and apparently helps people practice euthanasia can operate in a state which regards assisted suicide as a felony, I am happy to say that her obvious confusion over the wider issue of euthanasia is all her own.

Letter: Final Exit volunteers show admirable morals

Editor, I am appalled at Carolyn Johnson's letter to the editor in Tuesday's Daily Lobo in response to an article titled "Assisting people in pain." Using the Bible as a piece of factual information to support your every moral claim is preposterous. The Bible is a work of allegorical literature that has been translated numerous times throughout history and is interpreted by many different denominations in a plethora of ways.