TO THE EDITOR
would you rather keep your home, make dona-
tions to legal organizations and voice your
choices through your elected representatives
and senators?
Tom Hunnel
Eugene
GREEN WITH PRIDE
During this counterproductive war against
Iraq, the Democrats are demonstrating their
petty mentality and the one reason I’ll never
vote for them. The party of the donkey (or ass,
as it were) seems compelled to attack the small
percentage of citizens who voted for
Nader/Duke, who voted against their sacrosanct
two-party system or who voted with principle.
Now the Dems berate Green voters, blame the
war on us, and, in general, struggle to assuage their
consciences (or lack thereof). Dem sycophants ig-
nore the half of the eligible voters that didn’t even
turn out. Yet the Green voters are blamed for
Gore’s ineptitude to out-poll a half-wit?
Democrats assume Gore wouldn’t have at-
tacked Iraq — a big assumption, ignoring Gore’s
support of Gulf War I, Star Wars, other ridiculous
military programs and his support of sanctions,
which killed (according to UNICEF) more than
500,000 Iraqi children from 1991 to 2000.
Dems will not guilt the Green voters, that
small percentage, into swallowing the
Democrats’ swill next election. If Dems desper-
ately need a scapegoat, blame the masses that
didn’t vote at all.
Wil D. Hormann
Corvallis
INDUSTRY UNION
I was glad to see your article “SASS
Unionizing” in your April 10 issue. I should
point out, however, that it contains a fairly com-
mon error: the IWW are not the International,
but rather the Industrial, Workers of the World.
Our name comes from our organizational
model, seeking to unify workers throughout
their industry rather than according to their oc-
cupational specialty. For example, instead of
having separate electricians’ and carpenters’
unions, we aim to bring construction workers
together into a construction industry union,
IWW Industrial Union 330.
There is a helpful web page on this subject at
www.iww.org/culture/official/international.shtml
Patrick R. Wade
Eugene
JUST AIN’T SO
To Sally Sheklow: Love the column, dah-
ling (4/17), but let me set the record straight (no
pun intended). You lambasted my home state of
Florida as being gay-unfriendly, and I admit you
have a point! People forget that most of the state
is as deep-south-redneck as it gets! But a large
percentage of the state thinks Anita Bryant can
stick her politics where the sun don’t shine.
I felt a little resentful that you implied the
only democrats in Florida were Afro-American
or Jewish, though I guess it worked for the
humor in your column. But I’m here to tell you, it
just ain’t so. Like anywhere else, the liberals and
conservatives come in every flavor (yes, I’ve met
a gay Republican, though I didn’t get it).
As for me, I’m a lily-white PFLAG girl who
spent most of the early ’90s working my way into
clubs like the famous Paragon on South Beach
where the men were pretty or really pretty (all
tucked in, towering high heels and dresses to die
for). The word from back home is the GLB scene
is alive-and-kicking, so hopefully they’ll kick
back hard for those retiring sisters.
I’m happy to be in funky Eugene away from
the pretension, but I owe a little loyalty to the
town that made me the hip liberal I am. Miami,
at least, is as gay-friendly as Eugene, trading
Anita’s crusade for the OCA. But don’t discard
your sisters and brothers down south who’ve
fought hard and won their piece of paradise on
Ocean Drive!
Robyne Miles
Eugene
SERVE & PROTECT
This is in response to T. Medlock Tejada’s
letter (4/17). I too was at the protest at the fed-
eral building to observe for myself if all the let-
ters written in protest of police intervention
were true. What I saw in fact was quite the op-
posite. I saw police officers keeping a close eye
on a situation in case of an incident. Granted the
intention of the gathering was peaceful, but too
many “peaceful” assemblies have gone sour
lately for any police department to take lightly.
Chicago, San Francisco, Portland and New
York all had incidents rising from peaceful as-
semblies, San Francisco being one of the worst,
with arrests in the thousands. And you cannot
deny that such assemblies in Eugene have never
gotten out of hand. I am not saying all protestors
are violent animals, but you cannot deny the ex-
istence of idiots.
You use a lot of religious rhetoric as a dra-
matic way to put things, but let me remind you
of a verse in the Bible itself: “Live as free men,
but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for
evil.” I, of course, am not saying all protestors
are evil, just the idiots. Did you know that in the
gatherings in Portland, several incidents oc-
curred: One man threw acid at a police officer,
several protestors laid down in the streets and
blocked off emergency vehicles, and several
places of business were destroyed or damaged.
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