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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune OPINION AAG Sunday, July 27,2003 | STi say é REWARD FoR ann IN SADDAM'S Hie Looks FAMILAR... Sons | THE PuBLic FORUM How to reach us Fabricated epidemic | read with interest the article con: rning obesity (“Obesity problem can ily be solved with soundscience, not intuition,”Tribune, July 24), The author overlooked one important factor regarding the “epidemic” ofobesity in this country. The epidemic has beenfabri cated by the government by changing the weight charts which determine whether onehas an ideal weightornot. Vhis has been occurring quietly over ers’ coffee to Catholics,” July 18), are be opened) Mail: Public Forum, TheSalt Lake Tribune, P.O. Box 867, Salt LakeCity, Utah 84110 denceare published, Letters maybe edited "he reason for the change in stan people attempting to build a case against food manufacturers so they cansuefor big bucks. In order to makesuchsuits, however, youhavetobuild yourfacts to et your needs and get a few greedy, imple-mindedpeople to go unwittingly ‘long with your charade; never mind whetherreal scienceis actually used to persuade thejuryofthe truth. Kerry D. SHALL BETTER Magna Red Squarevs. Temple Square In thearticle, “LDS can bea hard sell m Russia,” (Tribune, July 24) thestatement by the LDS Church's Douglas Cal lister was most amusing: “The Orthodox Chureh is getting more assertive, it's numbers. Only the nameandcity ofresifor length, grammarandaccuracy. Dueto volume, not all submissionsare published. The LDS Churchis rampant inall the schools and political arenas of Utah, bosing into the affairs of even the smallest municipalities of the state. Those things, along with trying to con. trol civil liberties on a nationwide level, make Mr. Callister’s statements hypoeritical. Furthermore, his lamentations about getting approval for a church building arecarboncopies of the “hor: tor stories” many religions other than the predominant faith experience in this state. ' Sorry, Mr. Callister, things are the source of funds, and am worried that my (non-majority) tax dollars are financing a missionin disguise. WhileI do see many reading the Book of Mormon in public places (buses, trains, airports)is it ordinary for Utah LDS athletes to carry it in their gym bags? And would this excursion have by al Jazeera television broadcasting images of dead Americansoldiers. Now that we've killed Odai and Qusai Hus: bein, thelr bloody bodies have become part of everytelevision network's prime time line-up. Rumsfeld has called this | Thechildren canno longerfantasize about flying while eatinga hot dog with mom, sitting in the grass. The couple will no longer gaze up with under the their hant interwoven. Theflight student can no longer study rumbleofthe engines. “Wecannotdefendfreedomabroadby desertingit at home.” CocHRan Salt Lake City ofcoffee? THEREV. JAME Fiynn Sr. Mary's Cuurcn Park City Ramblin’ roads I wantto thankDarrell Prows(“Save wild lands,” Forum, July 20) for his comment that “only the most rabid anti-environmentalists ... would argue States of America? Wehave become a nationof back-biters, trying our best to undermine everyone and everything. Talk show hosts andparticipants spend topicof their choosing,to the exclusion ofall else that matters. Utah, and worry that with antienvironmental leadership pushing for all-encompassing off-road-vehicle access, they do not recognize that in their overreaching, they have managed to not only kill protection offederal lands but that theirpolicies now threaten private Wegoto war to topple anevil regime, andsince it has not been completed in five months we should impeach the N. Byrnes Salt Lake City Headsonspikes Ido not mournthe deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons, but | am ashamed at the callousness with which their bodies weredisplayedby the Bush administra: tion. It is the photographic equivalent of putting their heads onspikes, a primi: tive gesture of arrogance and insensibility to commondecency that will come back to hauntus. Americanlawenforcement long ago abandoned the practiceof putting slain lands as well My ranchin Nine Mile Canyonis al ready threatened by the Bush adminis. tration’s fast-tracking of oil and gas leases. Now with new rules backed by Gov. MikeLeavitt, Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Reps. Ch Cannon and Rob Bishopthat unravel standards for granting R.S.2477 rights of way, my property is at risk of becoming an offroad-vehicleplayground and there is criminals such as Bonnieand Clyde and not a thing I can doaboutit. I thank Rep. Jim Matheson for John Dillinger on display. But even in the 1930s, the gruesome “trophies” of lawful violence were generally cleaned of gore before being exhibited in store front windows or newsphotos. standing up for private property owners and for pushing for set standards by which R.S.2477 claims can be granted. It is time to stop letting antienvironmentalists run rougashod over In releasing the photos of the Hus- itary courtesy byciting the needto convince Iraqis (and Americans) that they this country when al Jazeera, the Arab ‘TV network, broadcast images of Amer: icansoldiers killed in the war? Whatleg do our news mediahavetostand on now that they have donethe samething? It seems that whenfighting an undeclared war for a flimsy reason,the ad. ministration will grasp at any straw to convince the public that America is winning. Theelimination of two Third World criminals in what appears to be Mr, Bush's personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein will be nothing more than a footnote in the sorry history of Marr PaLann Bonunstifiel Jou Seavustint Price this administration. A our private and public lands and for the president? We should be able conquer a nation in a matter of weeks when that half blamingothers forall the problems we have. What we are seeing in Congress and the press right nowis not a patriotic concern for our nation, but people desperately hoping to take any advantage in order toget back the power they sofrantically crave. If it was for a righteous cause it might bedefensible, but it is all about money and power, nothing more. It has become unnecessary for ter- rorists to try to take us down with physical attacks. We aredoing the job for them from within, and whenit's doneit will be toolatetorepair it. Every person wholives in this country has Steven HANSEN Joun Brusn West Valley City eyes. Holladay Offensive ad Some democracy George Bush and other radical ex tremists state thattheyare interestedin building democracyin Iraq, and to that end recently appointed a council with 25 members, “reflecting the make-up of Iraqi society.” Poppycock, for only three of the 25 are women.If the radical Bush regime were truly interested in building a representative government, the council would contain 14 women and 11 men because women make-up If | werea Native American, I would pick up my Native Americanvillageat the Festival of the American West and leave, never to return. This morning’s adfor the festival, with the headline, “Meetan Indian Warrior andlivetotell aboutit” (Tribune, Page D12, July 25)is veryoffensive and in bad taste. How about putting a picture of a frontiers. man or a soldier \in that headline, for they slaughtered thousands of Native about 55 percent of the population of Iraq. So much for representative democracy! Americansincold blood, What couldthe Ronerr HitpesRann KayeD. Murnock Salt Lake City Salt Lake City ‘ LDS Church. “They seek and often receive preferential treatment in Russia. There is nobig difference between discrimination against someone andin fa: vorof someone.Theresultis the (“LDS can be a hard sell in Ru: Tribune,July 24.) What aninteresting quote. Tell me againwhereit applies? Barry NyGarp Woods Cross Wechoose people to representus, but it seems they spend half their time working to be re-elected and the other been given a great gift, unequaled in the annalsof history, and so many ofus are simply too ungrateful to bother caring for it. tections for parts of the Wasatch Moun “The Orthodox’ Church is getting more assertive, it’s getting intopolitics and schools,” said Douglas L. Callister, branch president, Europe East Area, has never happened before? tains to not let Gov. Leavitt, Secretary Norton, et al., pull the wool over our majority of folks who want to see pro- Utah or Russia? Enemyis us What has happened to the United someof the Wasatch Mountains while westill could.” | own ranchin eastern this exchange, and virtually accompanied the entourage? Edward R. Murrow their time arguing over whois to blame necessary.” I'll call it what it really is: hypocrisy ‘ \ | and beating us over the head with the President Bush has labeled those of us who rememberactual events, in spite of the propaganda issued by the White Network were horrified and outraged tender branches. The farmers produce coffee because it is part of their culture and privilege, but at the present 48 cents per pound theycannot survive. They Coffee-drinkers must ask a couple of serious questions with each cup: Is my coffee a cup ofjustice? Is this just a cup | safer? be picked carefully not to damage the if we had nothad the foresight to save photographs. Remember the outcry in House, as “revisionist historians.” Well, was closed for security purposes. Now, the many people who came hereto dream, rememberand celebrate were being turned away. Do youfeel any dren andall. Each precious bean has to other state officials had not promoted wereindeeddead. ‘The American news media havelost moral currency by distributing the allow me to revise some more history. Afew short months ago Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of the Old Boys* goingto let that stop us fromliving. On the July 24, I drove out to celebrate a successful flight test. Huge cementbarriers blockedoff the entrances with a sign telling me the area happenedat all if our governor and Midvale Bloody hypocrisy metallic wonders had. Our freedom had been threatened, but we weren't per pound. That's the same pound for which weoften pay $10 or $12. Coffee productionis laborintensive, and what I've seen in Nicaragua often involves an entire family, small chil- that we would have a better community from theinternationaltraditionsof mil: Gary Hunter They were bankers, waiters, single moms, students. Many hadblan: kets laid out for a picnic. I‘watched three small children, amazed they were holding perfectly still, gripping the fence. Their hands were interlocked with the chainlink as they stood, unmoving, watching the arriving aircraft. They seemed to know,at such a young age, what meaning those they havetosell their coffee for 48 cents saw no mention in thearticle of the same in Russiaas they are on Temple seins, the administration excuseditself Square. arrived.I introduced myself to the others. None worked in aviation about whom the authors wrote. lam frequentvisitor to Nicaragua, often to visit coffee producers. Twice in need atleast 90 cents per pound. A missionin disguis What acuriouspictureonthe front page of The Tribune's sports section on July 25. | was wondering whofinanced the trip for Team Utah toplay against the Russian teams in various sports? I getting into politics and schools. They seek and often receive preferential treatment in Russia. There is no big dif ference between discrimination against someone and in favor of someone. The tesult is the same. This sounds very similar to the United State of Utah with r ward to his own kind. very pertinentfor people whobelievein justice, as hopefully the Christians are the past four months farmers told me Letter Guidelines: The Tribune welcomes letters of up to 250 words on topicsofgeneral weight to borderlineobese, just with the inple strokeofa pen. According to the vriter of the article, 60 to 75 percent of dards can probably be traced to greedy There is an observation area at the Salt Lake International Airport where used to studymyflight lessons under the magical purr ofthe jets above me. After Sept. 11, 2001, on thefirst day the airliners began flying again, I packed up my books. The small parking lot was packed when I agency marketing impoverished farmE-mail: letters@sitrib.ce (Please send text only, attachments will not interest. Letters must includefull name, homeaddress and day and evening phone eht. [questionthese figures, howev 1, whenI go to our local school and imply look at all of the scrawny kids \nningabout, happy and healthy Grounded dreams Acupofjustice Your articles on coffee (“Relief Phone Number: (801) 257-8888 the past 15 to 20 years, My weight has not changed substantially over this period time, yet overnight I went fromideal wr childrenare suddenlygrosslyover: LETTER OF THE WEEK person who’ thought up that caption have been thinking? No gas? Blame Gore In hisletter “Phony gas crisis,” (Forum, July 24), Jim Platte blames the Bush administration, the National’Oil Council and The Rocky Mountain £nergy Council for “fabricating a crisis of scarcityin the face of abundantnatural gas.” He further states that a large source ofnatural gas here in the West has been “tapped and then capped,” presumably also the fault of the Bush administration, et al. The “tapping and capping”did happen,butat theorder of theClinton-Gore administration. Mr.Platte wonders “what happened andwhatcould havebeen done”to avert a natural gas crisis. For the answer, read former Vice President Al Gore's book on’the environment, Earth in the Balance, where hestates that the only way to loosen Americans’ dependency on fossil fuels would be to cut explora: tion and production of those fossil fuels, causing their price to rise to a point where they force people to conserve and findalternatives, ‘The Clinton-Gore administration or: dered the capping of many of the wells found in the Western Gas Reserve and effectively stopped exploration in na tional monuments with the express purpose of choking the supply, taising prices, inducing conservation and spur. ringresearchfor alternative methods of producing energy. They succeeded, If they wanted to put rural drillers and other workers out of work as well, they scoreda hat trick. The Clinton-Gore administration fabricated a scarcity; that is the teal crisis. Joun Maxwent West Jordan 4 s. |