TO THE EDITOR
sucking her finger, an immense pair of
glossy lips, and “Naughty or Nice” Wendy,
who looks entirely sympathetic and sweet,
and is “very open minded and discrete.”
Are you encouraging this lonely, tired
working man to spend his attention and his
income on a prostitute, or might there be
higher uses for the man’s energy?
There’s no point in opposing the sex
trade, which has lasted from cave man days.
I guess your bod is yours to trade as you
choose. But why does the area’s most pro-
gressive mass medium mix insightful com-
mentary, cutting edge news and a free ex-
change of progressive ideas with advertis-
ing that demeans both men and women? Are
you reaching out to a less intelligent reader-
ship in order to finance the publication of
your better stuff? Is that necessary? If you
need the revenue to survive, perhaps there
are better ways to raise it than prostitution.
Christopher Logan
Eugene
PROTECT & SERVE
I just witnessed a very twisted and frus-
trating turn of events in my neighborhood. I
had been hearing noise from a domestic dis-
pute for a few minutes before learning that
some neighbors had called the police fear-
ing that the man was hurting the woman. As
she emerged from the apartment she was
hysterical that the man had her cat in the
apartment and was fearing for its life.
The EPD showed up after a while in a
very slow and relaxed fashion, rolling
slowly through the alleyway and walking at
below-average speed to the girl to ask what
was going on. The man inside had locked
the door and turned off the lights, pretend-
ing not to be there when the police knocked,
to which the police responded by giving up
after being assured by several witnesses that
the man was certainly still in the apartment.
After the girl drove off in tears, one of
the officers approached a truck with loud
music playing and proceeded to cuff and
stuff the driver after only a few minutes. As
this happened, the original man involved in
the dispute came out and watched. The po-
lice were aware of his presence but did not
say a word to him. They simply told a group
of shocked onlookers, “It’s cool,” and left.
I am appalled and disappointed by the
way these events were handled by EPD. My
eyewitness account seems to show “Protect
and Serve” couldn’t be further from their
minds.
Heath Kearns
Eugene
OFFENSIVE DRINK
I am a foreign grad student at the UO. I
am from Dublin, Ireland. I really enjoy your
newspaper and usually find it to be a great
resource when planning activities for visit-
ing friends and family. I am writing about an
ad from the Horsehead referring to a drink
called “The Irish Car Bomb.” Terrorism is
unfortunately a very real and current issue
in Ireland. There have been countless vic-
tims of the IRA and UVF and to mock the
grief caused by these groups with a drink
special is pretty offensive.
I am sure that your American readers
would be understandably outraged if you
published an ad for a drink named after a
terrorist event that claimed U.S. lives.
Could you please consider your interna-
tional readers when printing such material?
Ruth Saunders
Eugene
UNCONVENTIONAL PATHS
If gay marriage or abortion (pro-choice)
becomes an issue in the November election,
I suggest that views on those two issues
could take unconventional paths with the
gay marriage group on the pro-life side. In
olden days religious leaders needed to en-
courage production of more babies so that
their own religious organizations might eco-
nomically prosper. In olden days before
Social Security, subsistence farming cou-
ples needed to produce children to help on
the farm and care for the couple in old age.
Now the world has enough babies to sup-
port, if not enough to keep up the “afterlife
insurance
policies”
of
ancestors.
Heterosexual activity, which might produce
unwanted babies, should be regarded as im-
moral. Some uncharitable people might
argue that producing multiple unwanted ba-
bies is even unfair to gay taxpayers.
Abortion of unwanted babies is not, I
contend, a moral choice. If sexual activity is
to be regarded as entertainment for those of
reproductive capacity, it’s better that it be
homosexual rather than heterosexual activ-
ity.
Helen Woodford
Eugene
SCARE TACTICS
This is for all of you “progressive liber-
als” who think that Nader should back out
and support Kerry (“No Nader Now” 6/17).
This is not the way it works. Kerry will get
my vote when and if he ever adopts truly
progressive policies, and not before then.
As far as suggesting he should pledge his
time and energy to reforming the
Democratic Party, Kucinich and Dean are
leading that front.
The claim that Nader is running to sat-
isfy his ego holds no water. Egotism is a trait
found in all presidential candidates. You
(Kerry supporters) have your work cut out
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