To Ms. Shannon Flock and others of her ilk who feel that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were retaliation because we "stick our nose into other countries' business," may I gently remind you that our own country was assisted in its foundation because other European countries, notably France, felt it appropriate to join our fight.
Many people have been writing to the Daily Lobo about their rights, which is their right and they are right to do so. I am writing not only because it is my right, but I want to address the rights that other people have been discussing.
A lot of people today don't understand why it's so important to prosecute "victimless crimes." Don't they know that America's future hinges on punishing even the slightest deviations from the norm?
I have been in college for three and a half years, with two of those years at UNM. I've observed a great deal to dislike about college students, especially when it comes to backing up smack talk or when it comes to plain common sense.
I would like to share with you something that happened to me. I was walking around the campus, heading to the shuttle bus and walked through the grass. I got on the bus and realized that I had a leaf stuck to my shoe.
As if stealing 2,000 newspapers and refusing to admit they were wrong wasn't bad enough, the nine members of the Connection slate are now appealing their $325 slap on the wrist.
I don't believe this is a war on terrorism. It can be described as retaliation for terrorist acts that have been a long time coming.
I graduated from UNM 1999 with a bachelor's degree in Asian Studies. I have been living and working in the People's Republic of China for about two years in the northeastern port of Dalian.
Not long ago, a federal judge denounced the FBI for throwing Taiwanese-born scientist Wen Ho Lee in solitary confinement and forcing him to choose between speaking to his family or his attorneys.
When I was walking home from campus on Nov. 14, I wondered why I could not find even one issue of that day's Daily Lobo. An off-campus search turned out to be futile as well. I didn't think about it much then, but the heated debate in more recent issues over the front-page photo of that edition explains this curiosity.
While we struggle with our earthly concerns, the war has an unforeseen effect: the Butter Battle Book shortage on the planet Vox.
Matthew Kennicott's letter in the Nov. 15 issue of the Daily Lobo disturbed me. It seems obvious to me that American values were originally based on the ideas of freedom.
I have never laughed so hard as I did while reading Louis Griego's silly letter. I would expect that kind of foolishness from a liberal, but Griego stated he once "registered with our organization" and, wait for it, "went to a couple of meetings." Oh goodness! He must be a true Republican if he went that far. All the same, let me try to speak for the group.
This letter is to continue on with the fuss the community has made since the publication of the "Taliban photo."
In response to Skye Morris' challenge in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, I can think of at least two organizations that do more good for the community that they serve and are the least understood and most hated by those they serve - the Freemasons and the Daily Lobo.
Last night, as I was on my way out the door, my exit was interrupted by a telephone call. I rushed to my phone and picked up. It was none other than Andrew Webb, a Daily Lobo reporter. He asked me for comment on the new rulings of the ASUNM Elections Commission on the misconduct of the Connection slate.
"A picture speaks a thousand words," was another response to the photo that was published in the Daily Lobo that caused so much controversy and hurt many virgin eyes.
My concern is why the Daily Lobo ran only one small photo of the castration and execution scene when New York Times ran three large photos of what our support troops were doing. It appears more men were killed than just one if all the photos are examined.
Much is being made lately of the disturbing photograph that showed the gruesome execution of a member of the Taliban by Northern Alliance troops published in the Daily Lobo last Wednesday. Objections to its publication are understandable; no moral person can help shivering at the thought of such a painful and inglorious end.
I am moved to respond to the letter of Matthew Kennicott. He asserts that "Many youths today, especially on college campuses, have empty minds that are being filled with anti-American, anti-Christian ideals." He seems to believe that those of us who do not support our present "war" don't think for ourselves.
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