TO THE EDITOR
Kucinich is a man of integrity whose record
proves him unafraid to remain himself and
speak his convictions in the face of a crowd
of look-alike, talk-alike, and commit-to-as-
little-as-possible Democratic politicians. If
there were no other reason to support him in
the primaries, we should do so to prevent
Dean and the other front-runners from mov-
ing further to the right. Dean is correct when
he says Democrats have to stand for some-
thing in order to be elected.
Kucinich does.
Ellen Spear
Eugene
LIB WITH IT
What makes living in Eugene really en-
joyable is anticipating the letters to the editor
each week in this rag. The libsympathizers
who show up there never disappointment me
for their naivete and ignorance of history.
Take two samples in the 9/25 issue — Jim
Johnson’s and Bevin Gilmore’s lame efforts
at attacking our president’s laudatory efforts
to bring Pax America to the world. Johnson’s
is the more sophomoric of the two and can be
dismissed simply by encouraging him to
continue his divisiveness among the local,
so-called “progressive” community. Jim is a
true “right thinker,” serving our great conser-
vative movement.
Gilmore’s reflects a more mature exam-
ple of the claptrap thinking of the 1960s. He
whines about how “massive citizen support
is critical” at a time when two of best conser-
vative flacks — Solomon and Corn — are
doing their best to muddy the waters. They
don’t provide any answers, Bevin, because
that’s not their function!
What these two sorry losers fail to under-
stand is that President Bush has to destroy
the Constitution, along with the Bill of
Rights. Historically, these two documents
have only encouraged hoi polloi to think it’s
their country and their government.
And as far as the president’s “double
dealing” with Bechtel and Halliburton is
concerned, that’s always part of our great
American tradition. Besides, to the victor be-
long the spoils. So if a few of our soldiers
have to die in Iraq, their true, red-blooded
American families will be comforted know-
ing that their son or daughter’s loss is done at
the altar of preserving our great capitalist
system.
Peter Ferris
Eugene
MEMO TO THE GUARD
I would like to thank Eugene Weekly’s vi-
sual arts writer Sylvie Pederson for her ex-
ceptional coverage of the Mayor’s Art Show
and the Salon des Refusés. Her well crafted
reviews were a refreshing perspective of our
local visual art scene, which has been lack-
ing for quite some time. Hopefully The
Register-Guard is taking notes.
Steve LaRiccia
Coordinator, Salon des Refusés
Eugene
MORE TREES, LESS BUSH
While I was at the Eugene Celebration, I
was approached about signing a post card.
When they explained what it was about I was
more then a little disturbed. They told me the
Bush administration is currently working to
repeal the roadless rule which would protect
60 million acres of our national forests,
about half of what we have left, from new
roads for logging or mining. Right now we
already have some 490,000 miles of roads in
our national forests and I don’t feel we need
any more of them.
The reason this bothers me so is I, like
many others, moved to Oregon for my love
of nature. Everyone who loves our national
forests as I do should join me in letting Sen.
Wyden know just how you feel. We need to
get him to take a stand and fight the repeal of
the roadless rule. I plead for Oregonians to
join me and help protect our national forests
before they are gone.
Eric Van Heuklon
Eugene
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
The greatest religion the world has ever
seen is American style democracy. Not be-
cause it rules from golden clouds, with per-
fect masters giving out golden words of per-
fection, but because it does the opposite. It
forces Americans to think, and to have to live
with their decisions and the leaders they
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