TO THE EDITOR
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masterworks
for
chorus and orchestra: Handel’s Jephtha
6/27
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
6/29
Beethoven Piano Concertos 7/1,
7/3
Brahms Requiem 7/6
Ballet 7/11
Bach and
Bach and Mozart 7/13.
Intimate evenings
of chamber music: Flutist
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Operatic
vocalist Jimmy Taylor 7/2
Levin/Chuang duo piano
recital 7/5
Tao of the Well
Tempered Bach 7/9
and more.
Insights & discoveries
Lecture-demonstration concerts at 5 pm
throughout the Festival.
(EW, 6/5) please make the effort, because he
appears to be one of the few people in the
halls of congress who understands his duty to
the people and the constitution.
Dear Sen. Byrd, I am writing to express
my deep admiration and heartfelt thanks for
your service to our nation, to our republic, and
to our Constitution, at this, perhaps, the most
critical moment in our great history. I can
imagine no greater tragedy in the history of
humankind than if the United States of
America should slide into a cynical, deceitful
autocracy after waging nearly a century of
honorable struggle against the forces of igno-
rance and dictatorship throughout the world.
If, at the moment of our victory and great-
est power, we should forsake the simple
though exacting values that guided and in-
spired our fighting men and women to great
sacrifice over two centuries, we will have
been complicit in a far greater betrayal than
any so-called treachery of dissent. In dark
moments, as the single voices of conscience
have been drowned by the cacophony of jin-
goism, your speeches on the floor of the
Senate have kept my hope of a better future
for my daughter alive. Indeed, I suspect they
will long be remembered for keeping the
“last, best hope of mankind” alive. Thank you
again, and keep fighting the good fight.
Thomas Smith
Eugene
POLITICAL IMPRISONMENT
Even the Bush administration can no
longer debate the fact that our planet is be-
coming steadily warmer as a result of carbon
accumulation in the atmosphere, and that this
is the direct result of human use of fossil fuels
combined with massive global deforestation.
We are only beginning to experience the ef-
fects of this phenomenon, with increasingly
severe tropical storms, melting polar ice caps,
and northward migrations of such detrimen-
tal organisms as the West Nile virus.
Combined with the ever-increasing human
population and dwindling natural resource
base, it is becoming very difficult to predict a
long-term future for the human species.
In June 2000, two sincere, dedicated and
frustrated young men took an action against
sport utility vehicles (SUVs), a particularly
blatant agent of global warming. Jeffrey
Luers and Craig Marshall planted incendiary
devices under two SUVs in the Romania
Chevrolet lot on Franklin Boulevard. They
took all possible measures to ensure that no
human being would be harmed by their ac-
tion, and no one was.
Given the dire global forecast, this loss of
property by a company that actively profits
from the sale of low-fuel-efficiency vehicles
would seem to be a relatively minor incident.
Judge Lyle Velure, however, did not see it that
way. Although he made a point to tell Jeff
Luers that it had nothing to do with his poli-
tics, he proceeded to hand down a sentence of
nearly 23 years. This sentence, as punishment
for an act that caused no harm to human life, in
a judicial system that frequently releases
rapists and murderers in a fraction of that time,
classifies Mr. Luers as a political prisoner.
Chris Calef
Cottage Grove
DISTINGUISHABLE
DEMOCRAT
Not only is Howard Dean’s position on
war fundamentally the same as Bush’s, his
concern for alleviating the pain of the termi-
nally ill is similarly lacking. Though of the
candidates, only Sen. John Edwards has gone
so far as to say that he would continue Bush’s
paramilitary-style raids on medical marijuana
patients and cooperatives, Dean has made his
position quite clear: As governor of Vermont
he threatened to veto a medical marijuana bill
that was expected to pass the Senate. His
strong-arm tactics caused the Senate to drop
the bill and instead adopt a toothless bill that
created a committee to further examine the
medical marijuana issue rather than one that
would protect and help patients.
Only Rep. Kucinich has expressed a will-
ingness to extend a compassionate hand to
those who cannot find relief from regular
medicine. He has announced that he would
issue an executive order that would permit
qualifying patients to use marijuana for med-
ical purposes. This makes Kucinich the only
anti-war candidate and the only candidate to
support a patient’s right to use medical mari-
juana. If the Democrats want to run a com-
passionate candidate who is easily distin-
guishable from Bush, then Howard Dean is
not our candidate.
Kevin Feeney
Eugene
DEATH ALLEY
We are very concerned about the addi-
tional traffic that will be caused by the pro-
posed casino on the Hatch Track on Highway
126 near Florence. A conservative estimate of
traffic increase due to the casino would be 200
to 300 percent, and the Regional ODOT
Manager has said recently that, “Hwy 126
will not be widened in your or my lifetime …”
The tribe says they plan to do most of the
marketing in the Eugene/Springfield area.
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