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The best thing we could do for the future
of the country is to send George Bush and his
cohorts to live on Mars.
Pauline Hutson
Eugene
nominee except Sen. Joe Lieberman and
Gen. Wesley Clark.
Yes, it’s essential we show Bush the door
in 2004.
John Saemann
Eugene
START THE CONVERSATION
GET INVOLVED
We live in a democracy, right? Which
means that citizens are the ones who collec-
tively have the job of deciding what policies
will serve the public good. Yet each day’s
paper brings us more and more evidence that
this is not the way things are working in the
United States. What we have instead is giant
corporations whose profit-driven decisions
enact policy that affect millions of people’s
lives — usually without any public input
whatsoever.
On Jan. 9, Paul Cienfuegos spoke at UO
about how the people can assert democratic
control over corporations and essentially take
our decisionmaking powers back. He spoke
about the actions citizens in Arcata, Calif.
have begun taking on a local level to accom-
plish this. What was most unusual, was that
they didn’t begin with a campaign to change
a certain policy, but with a campaign to have
a conversation in the form of a town hall
meeting. Their legislative successes have
grown from a foundation of very public, very
democratic conversations with one another,
in which they found common ground across
the ideological spectrum.
For those who missed Paul’s speech, it
will be broadcast on KLCC on Sunday, Jan.
18 at noon. I urge everyone to listen to it.
Let’s begin the conversation here in Eugene.
Jill Schwab
Eugene
From my perspective, here by the wood-
stove in my straw/dirt home, the best thing that
could happen now is for Phillip K. Dickian
space aliens to beam back to Planet Zoilton all
Bushites, Saddamophiles, Mohammedian psy-
chopaths, genocidal Pope followers, bio-tech-
nocrats, financiers, CEOs and timber barons
while, at the same time, magically restoring in-
digenous cultures, ecosystems, extinct flora
and fauna and love of life on Earth to humans.
This is not likely to occur. However, I re-
fuse to accept the incredibly shallow/hollow
observations of supersage Dan Carol. Dude,
our materialist-mechanistic view of the uni-
verse — with us separated from it — is de-
stroying everything! The Marines putting the
screws to Hussein while the Air Force ex-
plodes Afghan children does not a decrease in
evil make. Within our present governmental
system, Kucinich with Moseley Braun repre-
sents leaders with a holistic, positive and
manageable world view/social system.
To all those people who just want to es-
cape into art and nature and love, I urge you
not to leave our fate to political strategists,
mad scientists and military authority.
Become fully involved in stopping the impe-
rialist torturing machine.
Anthony Willey
Cottage Grove
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How weird to see all the crowing about
“mad cow disease” in EW (1/8) when there
has been absolutely no dialogue at all about
the numerous, even yearly, incidents of poi-
soned and dying people from vegetable-car-
ried salmonella poisoning due to south of the
border “brown water” crop watering policies.
Here’s an ideal to get past the fact that
even food is a hardcore political bullshit item
in Eugene: Feed the salmonella coated veg-
etables to the cows and bulls instead of the
other cows.
A healthy solution for all. Smile while you
eat that imported tub of border sprouts! And
don’t forget you can save lots and lots of
planet lives just by killing yourself instead of
them: Why bother living?
The “Living Diet” of “Not Being There,”
a real life saver!
Go Planet!
Daniel J. Moore
Springfield
JUST GET DEM IN
Ann Tattersall (12/11) and we are on the
same side in the Democratic primary elec-
tion. We favor and actively support
Congressman Dennis Kucinich for president
as the candidate with the most positive and
best positions in every regard. We part com-
pany with her, however, when she denigrates
other viable candidates, especially former
Vermont governor Howard Dean, who
presently is the front runner.
In fact, while Kucinich is our first choice,
we can also be enthusiastic for Dean, if he
wins the nomination. Going beyond that, we
would even support any other Democratic
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