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Dear editor:
Dan
Rather leaves, and the profession he helped elevate chases him out with
Enquirer-worthy snipes. What were the headlines yesterday? "Rather
Departs Under Cloud of Scandal," "Dan Rather Finally Quits Having Stayed
Too Long."
I think
journalists have forgotten that before Rather and his generation, the
media was a propaganda branch of government, a ventriloquist at the
service of the party in power. Rather and his cohorts made journalism a
force to be reckoned with. They actually told people things that
mattered. They were arrogant, even haughty, because the government they
went after had shamelessly abused power (kinda like today), and in order
to take on those challenges, you have to be rather fat in the head. You
certainly can't accuse the press today of being fat in the head. I'd say
submissive would be an apt description.
And
perhaps that's the reason for all the nasty remarks as Rather fades.
Today, radio, TV news and print journalism exist as a Bush
Administration mouthpiece. Now that the last giant of the profession has
departed, the media can get back to sniveling for a seat at the table.
Charles
Sumnerian
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Dear Editor:
I have read
your editorial page and it is not just one thing that moves me to
respond but rather the collection of thoughts, facts and opinions that
make me want to share my opinion. I am not a liberal or a
conservative. In fact I don’t think anyone could ever tab me.
But I must
say:
I am so
sick of patriots and conservatives who back our current president and
think that whatever this country does is great. They are wrong… and
don’t get me wrong - it is not that I dislike this country; it’s just
that it embarrasses me to be a citizen of it.
“Love it or
leave it.” Right?
Screw you!
I say. I ain’t leaving and it may interest you to know this country was
spawn and built on people who took exception to suppressive behavior.
If it
sounds like I am pissed, I am!
President
Bush and his Christian right or whoever those people who chose to elect
the most fucked president ever are behind the promise of “ethical”
treatment of issues such as stem cell research and gay marriages. These
issues don’t amount to a hill of beans in the face of thousands upon
thousands of innocent people dying in a pointless war in the
Middle East.
They pinned
Clinton
as being so irresponsible with the Whitehouse with his sex scandal that
ruffled the feathers of Kenneth Star and his conservative faction, but
what was more irresponsible - oral sex in the White House or sending
innocent young men and women to kill and die for a cause that doesn’t
exist?
What is
worse… 911 was bad enough but now we have a war and a situation in Iraq
that is not soon to go away, that is such a catch twenty-two any move
this country, the United States, the President, WE make will be scary at
best. One thing is for sure we will be involved in that shit for a long
time. And I will tell you right now if you are reading this because of
this asshole patriotic Bush mentality we as United States Citizens will
never be safe. In our lifetime we will now and always have to look over
our shoulders and be afraid of terrorists because that is the scare that
Bush and his cronies have made more real since he has been in office.
Scare
tactics.
But his
dumb asses will never impeach him. See, ignorance and stupidity have
been cultivated in this country for a long time.
You mention
T or C and health in your editorial page. The fact of the matter is
that obesity, laziness and drug abuse, alcoholism, incest, narrow minded
right wing Christianity among other mind closing activity is rampant in
Truth or Consequences and
Sierra
County.
It is a
wonderful place, really, with some of the most wonderful people that I
have ever met still living there. But anyone with any brains can see
the place is a hot bed for extremely sick behavior.
But misery
loves company. I don’t know who is responsible but they have managed to
ruin this whole country and Truth or Consequences is just an example.
Just like
in
Rome,
“Give them Circuses and bread to control the masses.” People who live
under this spell hate themselves. I applaud you Bill for not just
breaking the spell but for obviously hitting the road to loving
yourself. You are an inspiration.
All I have
to say to the people who support our president that you are sadly,
sadly, sadly mistaken and you make me sick. To all the soldiers in
Iraq: Your are not fighting a righteous war; you are fighting a grudge
war for an administration that has about as much brains as it does an
idea how it is going to get you and us out of this mess. Here is my
idea - Lay down your guns turn around and run, walk, swim and or
hitchhike back to this country, beg for forgiveness from the creator,
demonstrate in front of the White House against war and dedicate
yourself to a life against hunger, poverty and ignorance. You would be
doing your country a far better service than backing the biggest jackass
in the history of world leaders.
Thanks
David
Pierre
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Dear
editor:
Bush is taking our rights away
more and more.
The Gestapo in America - It all
started a year ago.
A New Mexico high school
teacher was fired last year and classes in poetry and the poetry club at
Rio Rancho High School were permanently terminated.
It had nothing to do with
obscenity, but it had everything to do with extremist politics.
In March 2003, a teenage girl
named Courtney presented one of her poems before an audience at Barnes
& Noble bookstore in Albuquerque, then read the poem live on the
school's closed-circuit television channel.
A school military liaison and
the high school principal accused the girl of being “un-American”
because she criticized the war in Iraq.
After firing Nevins and
terminating the teaching and reading of poetry in the school, the
principal and the military liaison read a poem of their own as they
raised the flag outside the school.
The Art students were next.
Hitler must be stopped.
Bart
Lauer
Santa
Fe, NM
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5-25-04) |
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Dear editor:
I wanted to thank you so very much for making your
website available.
I am formerly from Truth or Consequences and like to
check the news every once in a while when I get a chance.
I am impressed by your news reporting, and again thank
you very much.
Patsy
Romero
Iliff
School of Theology
Denver,
CO
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3-9-04) |
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Dear
editor:
I found your editorial entitled
"...Canadian firm wants to drain EB Lake" that was posted in
October. My interest in it
stems from a phone call I received today (Feb. 24) about a New Mexico
company (Westwater Resources dba "WaterBank";
www.waterbank.com) that is advertising Canadian water rights and bulk
water for sale, including seeking partners interested in bulk transport
to the US. (Note: according
to federal legislation, bulk water exports from Canada are illegal).
I thought I would point out to you that
a man at the center of both of these companies is William Turner of
Albuquerque, NM. He is
listed as a trustee of Lion's Gate Water (the nominal Canadian company
that wants to drain your lakes), and is in charge of Westwater Resources
also. Incidentally, he's
also a trustee with Granville Water in Canada (British Columbia), of
which Lion's Gate is a subsidiary.
It appears to me that companies have
been set up in regions where water is available to be acquired for
private profit and at the expense of the local public and environment.
Although Lion's Gate Water may be
registered as a Canadian company, my suspicion is that its priorities
are being determined from within New Mexico.
Perhaps it's simply more convenient to
present interest in water rights in New Mexico under the guise of a
foreign invader than as a local.
In addition to what I just wrote about
buying and selling of water for profit:
William Turner has been advising the New Mexico Governor in the
past on water management in New Mexico:
Stewardship of New Mexico's Water
Governor's Blue Ribbon Task Force on
Water
Ensuring a Sustainable Water Supply for
New Mexico
Bill Turner Provides Technical
Hydrology and Water Banking Perspectives: New Mexico Office of the
Natural Resources Trustee (Trustee), WaterBank.Com (Trustee), AGW
Consultants (Trustee), Turner Environmental Consultants (Trustee), The
WaterBank (Trustee), Granville Water (Trustee), Lion's Gate Water
(Trustee), Manzano Resources (Trustee), Westside Water (Trustee),
Genesis Resources (Trustee), EDM Systems (USA) (Trustee)
William
F. Donahue, Ph.D.
Adaptive
Management Experiment Research Team
Department
of Biological Sciences
University
of Alberta Edmonton, Canada
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2-25-04) |
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Dear editor:
I believe Senators Domenici and Bingaman should take
immediate action to censure President Bush for misleading us regarding
war in Iraq.
From his first days in office, Bush was planning this
war. He proceeded to
operate a campaign of misinformation, hype and hysteria that led us into
an unnecessary and lethal quagmire.
Before the war, Bush was repeatedly told there was no
definitive evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
He knew Iraq was not a nuclear threat.
He knew there was no Iraq connection to 9/11.
Iraq posed no imminent danger to the United States.
There was no case for a pre-emptive war, and the entire notion is
foreign to our core principles and international law.
The war has cost over 500 American lives (so far), left
over 3,000 seriously injured, and wasted tens of billions of dollars.
I urge our Senators to act now to censure President
Bush, and encourage all truly patriotic New Mexicans of conscience to
join me in this matter.
Ronald
D. Brim
Albuquerque,
NM
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2-17-04) |
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Dear
editor:
The following is an open letter to U.S.
Corporations that are betraying Americans by leaving them behind in a
pool of unemployment.
Please forward the following to the
appropriate corporate officer. Thank
you.
Greetings, I write to you today as a
concerned American. It has
come to my attention that your firm has a policy that encourages the
employment of low-cost foreign nationals to enhance profits.
I urge you to reconsider this policy.
I am sure that your company enjoys the stability and security of
operating as an American firm, with all of the resultant benefits and
rights. I'd like to remind
you that these benefits and rights are not free, and that you, as a
corporate citizen, have certain responsibilities and obligations to our
nation.
Hundreds of millions of honest,
hard-working, and patriotic Americans have built our country into what
it is today. In far too
many cases, they have paid with their lives to keep this country free
and to guarantee a prosperous future for their descendants.
Firms, such as yours, believing their
only responsibilities are to their corporate shareholders and "the
bottom line," now threaten that guarantee.
I urge you to re-think your priorities, and to change your
policy.
Bear in mind that our taxpayers fund
the infrastructure and standard of living that you use and enjoy.
They also, at this very minute, are putting their lives on the
line to protect your interests - again at taxpayer expense.
Millions here at home are out of work,
seeking employment, and watching as their future, and that of their
children's, is sold "down river."
This is not right. You
know it, I know it, and the American people know it.
Please, reconsider your hiring policy,
and rejoin the ranks of patriotic Americans.
Ronald
D. Brim
Albuquerque,
NM
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(posted
1-27-04) |
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Dear
editor:
I consider this administration to be
the greatest threat to the security and welfare of this nation that I
have seen in my short 50 years of life.
Our constitutional rights have been
trampled, we have been consistently lied to, our stature in the world
community has been seriously eroded, and the underlying far right-wing
(indeed, fascist) agenda driving this administration's actions is only
too transparent to true freedom-loving Americans and our friends around
the globe.
This is not a government of the people
and by the people. It is a
convoluted oligarchy of the rich, powerful, and paranoid, with the means
and will to silence a free press and impose their own twisted version of
empire on history.
This administration's path to power, in
and of itself, was enough to sound the alarm. It must be recalled that our election process was
compromised, with the selection of our president made by a largely
sympathetic group of pro-administration (appointed) "justices"
of the Supreme Court. The
decision was made behind closed doors, was at odds with the majority
vote of our citizens, and was final.
Many claim that the horrible events of
9/11 of necessity changed forever the nature of our way of life and
legitimized the suspension of our rights as citizens - ostensibly for
our own protection and greater good.
This was (and is) a very dangerous and wrong premise that played
well in the hands of George Bush.
We are not sheep, and we ought not
trust every Wolfowitz that comes concealed in a pastor's robe armed with
a nuclear-tipped staff of hatred and paranoia with promises of being led
to safer pastures.
George Bush is a would-be emperor.
But, as in the old tale, the emperor wears no clothes!
He has committed many impeachable offenses, and it is time for
him to join the rest of history's flotsam.
I urge all of those who agree to write
Congress and/or to visit
www.votetoimpeach.org
Ronald
D. Brim
Albuquerque,
NM
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(posted
1-16-04) |
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Dear editor:
Hang in there. Today (Sept. 11) I was
at the Ground Zero Sight on the way to work at my job with the
Ritz-Carlton Battery Park across the street from Ground Zero.
I was thinking about my friends and
loved ones in Sierra County and sending my blessings to you all.
But to hear this sad news (from T or C)
really has put a damper on an already sad day.
Be Safe, Be Well and Love one another!
Eric
Sofield
(former
Sierra County resident)
New
York City, NY
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(posted
9-12-03)
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Dear editor:
Your website is great and I will be
encouraging the local American Legion Family to visit the site and even
consider putting in ads.
Our National website is
www.legion-aux.org and if you have time please link on and see the many
things we do for our communities, youth and veterans.
Our new National President just took
office and we are ready to begin a new administrative year.
Rita Navarrette
Public Relations Chairman for
Department (State)
American Legion Auxiliary, Department
of New Mexico
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(posted
9-10-03) |
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Dear editor:
I enjoyed your flag-burning article.
Thanks for saying that the flag is not
to be worshipped as so many would have the People believe.
Joseph
Cummins
Mineral
Bluff, GA
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(posted
6-10-03) |
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Dear editor:
George Bush lied, just read his lips.
Bush lied to the French, the Germans
the Russians and the American people about why he invaded Iraq.
The White House spokesman just
resigned. He was afraid the reporters would ask him about the lies he
told for George Bush in the past.
If you are afraid George Bush will lie
in the future, just take his father’s famous advice, read his lips. If
George Bush's lips moved when he talked, then he lied.
John
Atkinson
Truth
or Consequences, NM
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(posted
6-3-03) |
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Dear editor:
I love to say I told you so.
The same people who attacked New York,
the Pentagon and destroyed the World Trade Center, came from Saudi
Arabia, they went back to Saudi Arabia.
And guess what? They are still there.
Tell our retard from Texas they went
that way.
John Atkinson
Truth or Consequences, NM
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(posted
5-19-03) |
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Dear editor:
Thank you for your editorial in the
Desert Journal (May 9).
I believe that if 75% of the people
vote, the Republican Party will disappear from the face of the earth.
Don't pay any attention to the negative
garbage on television. It is designed to discourage people from voting.
Get out and vote to repair the damage George Bush has done to the world.
John Atkinson
Truth
or Consequences, NM
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5-19-03) |
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