TO THE EDITOR
witnesses on the war’s illegality and his
duty to refuse, then manipulating the pro-
ceedings into a mistrial to avoid even
Watada’s own testimony.
The Army is now attempting to re-try
him while the defense asserts that this is im-
permissible under the double jeopardy
clause of the 5th Amendment. A preliminary
injunction halting the retrial was recently is-
sued by a U.S. District Court with state-
ments that the trial judge had abused his dis-
cretion and that Watada “is likely to succeed
on the merits.”
As Lt. Watada has said, illegal wars will
end when soldiers refuse to fight them. We
might also consider prosecuting the leaders
who wage them.
Jack Dresser
Springfield
GREEN DEVELOPMENT
Greetings! As an Earth dweller, I am an-
gered to hear that the Galapagos preserve is
being ravaged by whale hunters, that
Japanese whalers are rabidly killing whale
after whale in the Antarctic seas, that
Chinese shark-fin hunters killed more than
20 million sharks last year. Obviously,
Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd need more
contributions, more ships patrolling and in-
tervening, stopping the slaughter.
Locally, The Register-Guard’s reporting
on the Mayors’ Climate Change conference
meeting in Seattle last week left out the fact
that our mayor, Kitty Piercy, attended the
conference and that our city council has
adopted every single conference recom-
mendation,
including
the
Green
Development recommendations that have
become reality in many U.S. cities.
The resulting downtown economic
booms these cities are experiencing present
another strong argument for green urban re-
newal. Eugene will benefit from its green
urban renewal.
Also, Kemper of KGW stated last week
that he thinks he may just build four stories
of condos across from our library, blocking
the library’s grand windows as well as ig-
noring the council’s recommendation and
citizen desires for a park across from our li-
brary. Let us re-educate Mr. Kemper.
Honey in our hearts, fire in our spirits!
Charles F. Thielman
Eugene
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PASSING JUDGEMENT
Homeless folks, drug dealers or “punk
teenagers” — how many labels could you
fit into a sentence or even an article? How
much more of a cop-out do we need then
these previous accusations?
We start to forget that these “punk
teenagers” are children who need us. They
fall under our labels to survive, and they stay
there because there is no helping hand. These
children only want to be given the choices
and opportunities of any other teen. Our pic-
ture-perfect society doesn’t like the ideal of
homeless youth, as if they shouldn’t exist.
People don’t want to acknowledge that
there are simply not enough resources for
the majority of homeless youth to survive.
It’s easy to look at a middle-aged man who
is homeless and pass judgment, but how can
you pass judgment on a homeless youth
who has no family, no opportunity and in
most cases can’t legally work? We expect
them to go to school and do their home-
work, but they aren’t worried about getting
to math class on time. The homeless youth
in our community are more concerned with
surviving day to day.
As a 16-year-old, I am working on a doc-
umentary with CEY (Communities
Empowering Youth) and Looking Glass. I
am outraged that people in Eugene are so in-
sensitive to the less fortunate. We shouldn’t
be viewing our homeless youth as a disease
infecting our city but as human beings who
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