Darin J. Ward DDS PC
TO THE EDITOR
corporate gangsters to plunder and exploit.
The conquered people must realize how
fortunate they are to have the U.S. regime as
their lord and master. Golden Arches on every
street and Allah’s Christian churches on every
corner, with their eventual conversion reward:
“Pie in the sky when you die.”
Alice Greth
Bend
THIRTEEN QUESTIONS
To Donald Rumsfeld: Where’s Osama bin
Laden? Where’s Saddam? Where are the
weapons of mass destruction?
To John Ashcroft: Where is the First
Amendment? Where is the patriotism in the
Patriot Act? Where are the civil rights for vic-
tims of racial profiling?
To Dick Cheney: Where’s the oil? Where’s
the money? Where is the tax relief for mini-
mum wage earners?
To the Democratic Party: Where’s your
courage? Where is your belief in what’s right?
Where is your loyal opposition?
To George Bush: Where’s Waldo?
To the rest of us: We’re in trouble!
David Mandelblatt
Eugene
START THE PRESSES
Uncounted stories of magnitude and rele-
vance go untold by a negligent and conflicted
U.S. press.
The disgrace runs deep. The U.S. press
completely ignored the story of 60,000 valid
Florida voters in the last presidential election
illegally purged from the voter rolls by
Katherine Harris. The press focused almost
exclusively on the “hanging chads” issue
while ignoring an outright act of treason.
Journalists such as Greg Palast who investi-
gated and reported on the issue had to go to
Europe to be published.
Let us not forget Colin Powell’s urgency in
making the case for war with Iraq, utilizing
five-year-old plagiarized and moot informa-
tion from some grad student’s research paper.
Frankly, this is also an act of treason, but
where is the press follow-up? And of course,
this war was supposed to be about those apoc-
alyptic WMDs that have never been found, but
that is old news. While Iraq and Afghanistan
lay in ruins, news network cheerleaders are al-
ready gearing up for Bush’s Caligula-like war
mongering ambitions for a regime change in
Iran.
Continuing, ad nauseam. “Top gun” presi-
dent G.W. Bush flies onto aircraft carrier for
photo-ops while simultaneously cutting veter-
ans’ benefits in half. The press completely ig-
nores this act of outrageous hypocrisy, not to
mention the deafening silence pertaining to his
being AWOL from the National Guard for 18
months.
And finally, three cheers for the press
falling all over itself to saturate the American
public with the touching Jessica Lynch rescue
story. Remember the debunked “incubator
baby” stories from the first Gulf War? It turns
out that the saving of the little white princess
from the evil ones is nothing but a big propa-
ganda scam (see BBC documentary Saving
Private Jessica).
Our democracy is unraveling and it won’t
stop until an irresponsible and pathetically
compromised news media is held accountable.
Gerry Rempel
Eugene
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IF YOU CARE ABOUT ANIMALS
LANE COUNTY COMMISSIONER
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invites you to
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