TO THE EDITOR
tiny entities somehow becomes a feel-good
scenario of “infinite possibilities” in our vis-
ible world.
I left the theater with a new understand-
ing of positivity, that the millions of
Holocaust victims, starving Third World
children, and brutalized Iraqis are clearly the
result of their own self-imposed negative
thinking. The stage is set by the alluring
remark that science has disproved medieval
“truths” (flat earth and the like), so how do
we know today’s accepted “truths” are any
more realistic?
Alas, the film totally ignores the most
significant turning point of modern times:
empiricism and the scientific method. A the-
ory is not accepted simply because it “makes
sense” mathematically or intuitively or
because, well shucks, I just want it to be
true! It is tested, modified, tested again, chal-
lenged and reevaluated endlessly.
The dispassionate process virtually rules
out the acceptance of nice, self-consistent
conceptual systems based entirely on specula-
tion. All right, if I fall short of guru credibili-
ty, I will highly recommend the writings and
teachings of the most brilliant physicist since
Einstein, the late Richard P. Feynman, who
set the record straight on scientific voodoo.
James Wood
Eugene
SWALLOWING THE WAD
Poor Colin Powell, this once proud man
has become the equivalent of Monica
Lewinsky. There he was last week in front of
microphones and cameras doing what
Monica did in privacy, having to swallow
and defend the latest wad of lies coming out
of the Bush Administration. This time it was
not about yellow cake or centrifuge tubes of
WMD, but claims that the war against ter-
rorism was working. A Bush report in April
had falsely claimed that the number of ter-
rorist attacks and victims had declined to the
lowest level in 34 years. It turns out just the
opposite was true. The number had increased
sharply. “Errors crept in that frankly we did
not catch here,” said Powell. Unfortunately
no dry cleaner can remove these stains from
the red, white and blue fabric of our country.
What a pity, before he sank to his knees at
the pleasure of President Bush, I think that
Colin Powell might have made a great future
president.
Michael T. Hinojosa
Drain
LIBERATED IRAQ
I am having a premonition about the
future of Iraq. I see locked borders, curfews,
cronyism, suppressed media, forced con-
scription, public coffers plundered, hand-
picked political successors, etc. The newly
“liberated” Iraq is starting to look a lot like
North Korea.
After a few more stolen elections, maybe
Bush & Co. will similarly “liberate”
Americans — or is our liberation already in
progress through the PATRIOT Act and its
progeny?
Please, please get involved in “regime
change.” Your future depends on it. Don’t for-
get: One superpower equals absolute power,
and “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Doug Heiken
Eugene
REGIME ROTATION
The 2004 presidential “election” features
a plutocrat from the occult Skull and Bones
secret society who supports police state leg-
islation, a new gas pipeline from north
Alaska, more troops to Iraq, the war in
Columbia, nuclear power, Enron energy
deregulation, delaying fuel efficiency
improvements in cars until 2015 and oppos-
es the Kyoto Treaty. And then we have the
incumbent, who is a war criminal, complicit
in the murder of 3,000 people in New York
(9/11 was Bush’s crime, not an “intelligence
failure”) and countless Iraqis, Afghans and
others unfortunate enough to live near natu-
ral resources sought by the U.S. empire.
The 2004 presidential “election” makes
the 2000 contest look honest in comparison
— at best, it will merely be “regime rota-
tion” (replace Bush but keep the most impor-
tant policies: Homeland Security and the
War of Terror). The biggest way the election
has been rigged is not phony computerized
ballot machines (although they are a severe
violation of democracy), but the manipula-
tion of the process to ensure that Bush’s
cousin was picked as the opposition candi-
date.
Bush, Kerry and Cheney are cousins, part
of the American aristocracy. Kerry’s foreign
policy chair, Mr. Rand Beers, is a Bush
regime member who is a self-admitted per-
jurer. See www.oilempire.us/kerry.html
I was disappointed that EW urged people
to vote for pro-war candidate John Kerry in
the primary. Voting for Dennis Kucinich was
an excellent way of pressuring the leaders of
the Democratic Party who support Bush’s oil
wars (although under new leadership). If lib-
erals pressure the Democrats to oppose war
and fascism, the D’s might regain some
backbone and win more elections.
Mark Robinowitz
Eugene
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6 JUNE 24, 2004