TO THE EDITOR
member not in lock-step agreement with him?
Seems arrogance runs over the whole spec-
trum, doesn’t it?
Concerning Michael Moore and his ma-
nipulation of truth, it truly is annoying when
someone quotes him as a source of fact and
not humor. That said, I bet there isn’t a liberal
alive who wouldn’t trade him in for a Rush
Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Oliver North,
Gordon Liddy, Jerry Falwell, Bill O’Reilly,
Sean Hannity or Pat Robertson any day. The
left hardly owns the market of loud-mouthed,
fact-mauling attention hogs.
The laughs keep coming. According to
Kolb, lefties would be more embraceable if
they made more “right-leaning” friends, gave
up on the idea of national health care, and
began shopping at Wal-Mart and Starbucks. In
essence, Democrats would be more attractive
if they’d just shut up already and behave more
like Republicans. Right Randy?
He closes, still condescending, with a sym-
bolic pat on the back and the kindly thought
that the left shouldn’t worry, that everything
“will be OK.” All in the same tone you’d use
just after your 3 year old skinned her knee.
I sometimes complain that the Weekly isn’t
funny enough. Last week, though, it was hilar-
ious.
Mike Sheahan
Eugene
Mata Amritananda Mission Trust
(Amma’s organization) is strictly nonprofit
and this letter is not a solicitation for her, but a
personal testimony of my belief in her vast hu-
manitarianism. For more information or to
contribute to relief efforts, please go to
www.amma.org or www.amritapuri.org
Wendy Hunter
Noti
IMPEACH HIM
Now that the Republican Party has moved
so far toward the fascist right that it no longer
fits into the democracy category, there is only
one major party worthy of being allied with
(the Democratic Party) and only one minor
party that is right on all major issues (the
Green Party), so we need to impeach Bush as a
start toward democracy.
It is not patriotic to support a fascist inva-
sion of Iraq or any other country, nor is it patri-
otic to support a fascist occupation of any
country. It is patriotic in its best sense to op-
pose the U.S. trend toward fascism, else the
U.S. and the rest of the world will relentlessly
march toward an environment so deadly and
ruthless that human life will be hardly worth
living. Fight the propaganda and liberate the
biosphere from fascist slavery.
Bob Saxton
Eugene
A WORTHY CAUSE
WOLF LOGIC
I will be visiting India next week to help
with relief efforts from the devastating effects
of the Asian tsunamis and wanted to bring to
attention the incredible efforts of Mata
Amritanandamayi, also known as Amma,
world renowned humanitarian and spiritual
leader who has initiated relief efforts in
Southern India, one of the areas dramatically
impacted by the recent earthquake and
tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia. Her organ-
ization is strictly nonprofit and runs on a vol-
unteer basis. I feel this is a good cause to sup-
port because the monies donated go directly to
the persons being affected. Her own village
was affected by the deadly tsunamis in
Kollam, India. Amma responded quickly by
providing food, shelter and medical care to
over 10,000 evacuees from the local area.
Amma also has responded throughout
India by providing life saving measures. In the
state of Tamil Nadu, its capital Madras
(Chennai), Amma’s center fed 50,000
refugees who are currently without the basic
necessities for survival. She also provided am-
bulances to help the critically ill, and has re-
sponded to several other areas drastically af-
fected. In addition, Amma pledges to help re-
build 2,500 houses in her local area.
According to Michael Skolnick (1/6), we
shouldn’t welcome the gray wolf back to its
historic range in Oregon because their pres-
ence would lead to a backlash from ranchers
who would make the wolves “victims of hate
crimes.”
I think Skolnick’s the same guy who told
civil rights leaders that a bus boycott was a lit-
tle too radical (might lead to hate crimes). He
told suffragists that the right to vote would
lead to a backlash against women that would
undermine the cause in the long term. And he
told the labor movement that a higher, mini-
mum wage would increase the bosses’ costs
and cause more unemployment.
I hope the wolves don’t listen to him either.
James Johnston
Eugene
IT’S OUR MONEY
President George W. Bush and his
Republican administration’s first response to
the massive disaster in the Pacific is the ex-
pected tightfisted conservative budgetary re-
action to do things on the cheap, whether it be
invading another nation, supplying our troops
or responding to a massive and tragic act of
nature. Protection of bottom line profits is
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