Willse: Community voices
conflict to create balance
Continued from page 2A
to be forthright in its motivations for
military action, there is someone to
demand transparency. For every per
son who thinks there should be no
American involvement in Iraq, there
is someone to remind him or her
of a moral obligation to protect hu
man life when reasonable and possi
ble to do so, and particularly
from the clutches of genocidal dicta
tors. For every person who can’t
distinguish between protected and
unprotected speech and so attacks
legal expression, there is someone to
stand up and defend basic First
Amendment rights.
So, thank you to the many rational
thinkers in the campus community
who have time and again helped
make my work worth the effort.
Thanks for reading.
traviswillse@dailyememld.com
Jagernauth: Parties must
fight to preserve progress
Continued from page 2A
to the progressive movement to stop
them. Those enemies are, of course,
religious fundamentalists.
The ultra-conservative right wing’s
attempt to legislate a biblical moral
system is nothing short of an attempt
to transform America into a pseudo
theocracy where politicians are mere
puppets for an elite religious class.
Some might say I am exaggerating,
but it is happening, law by law, judi
cial nominee by judicial nominee,
election by election.
Additionally, one of the most impor
tant institutions for a well-functioning
democracy, a free press, has drastically
declined in the last few years. The
problem with the press is not whether
it is liberally or conservatively biased,
but whether it is willing or able to
serve as an independent watchdog
against all forms of power, whether left
or right, corporate or governmental.
Unfortunately, time and time again the
press has proved unwilling to shine a
light on the abuses of the powerful,
leaving the American public vastly un
prepared to protect its interests from its
own elected officials.
So what can be done? How can
we fight this slow erosion of
progressive values?
Libertarians and secular Republi
cans, who have lost their political
control to religious fundamentalists’
bend on building a global military
and religious hegemony, need to take
their party back.
Progressives and secular Democrats,
who have lost political control to pow
er-hungry elitists who feign populism
in order to hide their corporate inter
ests, need to take their party back.
And people of faith, whose religion
gives them the strength to love and ac
cept rather than judge, need to take
back their churches, synagogues and
mosques from those who have twisted
the Bible to further an agenda of hate.
davidjagemauth@dailyemerald.com
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