TO THE EDITOR
marked the 400 years of the colonization of
the Southern territories, so the first reaction
by the arrogant descendants of those invaders
is to once again “celebrate,” despite the fact
of the legacy of slavery and mass murder that
followed. I have decided to celebrate an event
that is very humiliating to the Caucasian pop-
ulation.
Sept. 11 will be my holiday, for I have the
right to admire “questionable figures and
events” as well. Osama bin Laden in reality is
a valiant revolutionary who has the courage
to stand up to an overwhelmingly violent and
ambitious force whose only goal is to seize
control of all indigenous recourses. Mr. bin
Laden is the George Washington, Geronimo
and Sitting Bull of the 21st century. He did
not start this war; that dubious honor goes to
the U.S. This so called terrorist, as he is so
commonly referred to by the Western world,
has the courage to stand up to this “white en-
tity” with conviction. The 19 brave fighters,
like the colonial militia or the many other col-
orful heroes of Americas past, laid down their
lives to strike a punishing blow to the very
symbol of American imperialism.
I also must not forget to give a salute to
the brave Iraqi resistance who are fighting a
life and death struggle against the modern
day conquistadors who are trying to plunder
their country of its natural resources. All in
order to feed the gluttonous appetite of a
“mega-consumer society” and force them to
assimilate into a foreign system of ideology.
Someone who has limited arms and has to re-
sort to using his body as a bomb is a coward
to the West, but dropping a bomb from three
miles in the sky or firing a cruise missile from
a thousand miles out in the ocean is a heroic
act. How arrogant this culture is.
Now I’m sure I have infuriated most of
the reading audience. Congratulations! You
have walked in my shoes.
Wyona Wolf
Cottage Grove
NEED A NEW JUDGE
How does federal Judge Ann Aiken ex-
plain away a paltry nine year sentence for
those found guilty of $40 million dollars of
arson/electrical transmission line damage?
This points glaringly to the need for a new
judge, one who can administer sure and swift
justice. A life sentence would be too lenient.
And what does “eco” have to do with it any-
way?
Joel Douglas
Bellingham, Wash.
EVALUATE GREENHILL
I am a volunteer dog walker at the
Greenhill Humane Society, and I feel very
fortunate to work with a group of such dedi-
cated volunteers and staff alike. But I am
deeply troubled by a recent spate of eu-
thanasias at this facility. Five dogs that I had
spent time with were all euthanized within a
period of less than two weeks. And one of
these dogs was featured in the May 24 issue
of Eugene Weekly as Greenhill’s Pet of the
Week. The dog, “Paws,” was described as
being cute, well-behaved and well-loved, and
the last time I saw this dog he was relaxing in
the grass in the arms of a volunteer. Was this a
dog that was supposed to have been eutha-
nized? Was he euthanized by mistake? I
shudder to think so.
If there is a lack of communication be-
tween the people who make these “final” de-
cisions and the Public Relations Department,
then this needs to be addressed, and fast. This
is a disgrace to the Eugene Weekly and to
Greenhill. The community needs Greenhill
and the animals need Greenhill, but I believe
there is a desperate need for a review of the
“inner” operations of this facility. Either
something is horribly wrong here, or I simply
do not understand the concept of a “humane”
society. Greenhill has been evaluating dogs
for some time now and now I believe it’s time
for the community to evaluate Greenhill.
Catherine Mish
Springfield
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THE WRONG SIDE
We in the U.S. make up about 5 percent of
the world’s people. We few spend more on
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future wars than the other 95 percent com-
bined, yet we count ourselves among the
most insecure. There’s gotta be a lesson in
there somewhere.
The fights we pick (Vietnam, Nicaragua,
Afganistan, Iraq) and those we are girding for
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