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Show THE ZEPHYRDECEMBER 1993 Which brings me to my main point. Yo, Michael! I know what really made you quit basketball - you can't break 80 and it s driving you nuts. I'm 12 years older, almost a foot shorter, and not even close to being the athlete you are, but I can still beat you at golf. Anytime you want to tee it up at the Moab Golf Qub for a $10 nassau, you let me know. I'll be there alone. Just you and me. After I lighten your wallet. I'll buy you a drink, and no journalist will ever know how the Zephyr's token conservative beat the best athlete who ever lived. BAD DREAM PAGE 25 JIM DAVIS TREE & LANDSCAPING CO. COMPLETE: A black truck driver pulls to an intersection in Salt Lake City. A group of white thugs pull him from the truck and beat him unmercifully for the sole reason that he is black. One kicks him in the abdomen as hard as he can. As the black man doubles over in pain, another white thug throws a brick into his face at point blank range with as much force as a human being can muster. As the victim falls to the ground, his eye socket shattered, the brick thrower does a victory dance, much like the ones that now draw penalties after touchdowns in the National Football League. The assailants leave the victim to bleed and die. Miraculously, the victim survives, and, because the incident was filmed by a TV journalist, the thugs arc arrested. They are charged with the crimes one would expect in a vicious, racially motivated assault that could have resulted in death - aggravated assault, aggravated mayhem, and attempted murder. Predictably, white activist groups denounce the prosecution as oppressive and vindictive. There are thinly veiled threats of further violence in the event the thugs are convicted. A jury is convened and, after a long trial, it all but acquits the defendants. The thugs' lawyers convince the jury that the thugs didn't have the requisite intent for serious crimes because they were caught up in the hysteria of racially charged civil unrest which plagued Salt Lake Gty at the time of the incident. White activists appear on the David Duke show and declare the verdicts a victory for white americans everywhere. Blacks across the country are outraged, particularly when whites applaud the verdict as showing the judicial system is finally working. There is no hope the thugs will be tried on federal civil rights charges - because the president of the United States depends on the votes white activists deliver every election like clockwork. Don't be alarmed, it's just a bad dream. In the real world, the races would be reversed, and the incident would have occured in Los Angeles. But unless racial violence is punished harshly across the board (as it was recently in Florida when two white sickos got life sentences without parole for attempting to bum alive a black tourist), there will be an escalating cycle of hate that will engulf this country just as it has the City of Fallen Angels. Double standards for racial violence can't exist if we expect Dr. King's dream to become a reality. Tree Service Large trees Lawn maintenance Evergreens & bonsai Yard & lot cleanups 259-784- 2 "Making Moab Beautiful" 78 SOUTH MAIN ST. MOAB, UTAH 84532 TRADING CO. Don't miss DAVE WAGSTAFF General Contracting New construction our big Christmas Additions Sale.. Re-mod- EVERYTHING els Have hammer ... Will 4 travel. OFF! Call 259-50- 77 after 5PM CELEBRATE with Back of Beyond at an autograph party for the authors and editor of: WASHED BY A WAVE OF WIND a collection of Science Fiction stories by UTAH AUTHORS including MOAB'S OWN MICHAELENE PENDLETON BOOKSTORE P.O. BOX 387, 83 N. MAIN MOAB, UTAH 84532 (801)259-515- 4 MONDAY WINTER HOURS 10AM TO 6:30 PM 7 DAYS A WEEK I " ! DECEMBER 13TH 5:30 to 6:30 PM MMI LU. H.1.U |