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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT Editor's Outlook tract that says (Continued from page 2) I have to be stupid. Permission Page 3 WOGitPOOD'ir re- fused." Because of his stand, the students at the BYU have been able to continue their college education without the disruptions going on at the U. of U. "Who's Running the Again we ask the question WILLIAM KUNTSLER By Place? Government Sells Names of Gun Collectors The Government has found a new way to make money. Pass laws requiring people to register their firearms and then sell the list Quite a scheme! The Infernal (excuse) Internal Revenue Service claims they must release the information on firearms ownership as it is required by the Freedom of Information Act By the same token, then, can we assume that the private and "confidential" information recently forced out of Americans by the Census Bureau will become as May 14, 1970 -- readily available as postage stamps? What has happened to the individual in America? Has he become so trusting of paternalistic government that anything government wants, government gets? If the American people will continue to allow themselves to be "suckered" into giving up their unabridged right to own and keq? firearms, they are a pitiful lot indeed. In fact, if they are not willing to stand up and fight for their rights and their freedoms, they shall eventually have neither. The Genocide Treaty Is Suicide The March 28, i970 issue of Utah's own Deseret News had an editorial calling for the U.S. to ratify "Genocide Treaty." In this article the editor the cited several reasons why he thought this treaty should be ratified. The American Bar Association voted in February why a against ratification. If anyone ought to know legal document should not be accepted it would be so-call- ed those whose business it is to draft legal documents. However, that still is no final test as to the rightness or wrongness of ratifying the treaty. Did you know, for example, if the U.S. ratified this treaty it would take away from every American the right of the protection of his life and property as guaranteed by the Constitution? Why? Because it has been established that an international treaty supercedes our national Constitution and becomes the supreme law of the land. Senator Strom Thurmond said of the Genocide Treaty, "As a nation, we would be charged before international tribunals, and our citizens could be dragged before alien courts without any of the guarantees of our own system AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Jesse Helms Longtime friend Jack Kilpatrick, who writes one of the countrys most readable syndicated columns under the formal byline of James Jackson Kilpatrick, was reporting to his readers ths other day tint he received rough treatment out at Vanderbilt University when he accepted an imitation to debate the Chicago Seven attorney, William Kuntsler. We cant imagine what else Jack could have expected and therefore cannot comment upon what he may have envisioned his reception would be. The Jack Kilpatrick we know is not naive at least he ddnt used to be. But something about his column indicated that he was surprised it Vanderbilt when militant students stood up and cheered Kuntsler, the Chicago Seven counselor, when Kuntsler called for bloody revolution in America. Out of friendship for Jack Kilpatrick, we will not raise the question of whether he may have momentarily lost his marbles when he agreed to be a part of such a spectacle. Still, the thought will not go away that Mr. Kilpatrick, by appearing on the same platform with a man who deserves no respect, lent a certain respectability to Kuntsler. Mr. Kilpatrick should have stayed at home. In the first place, under any reasonable interpretation of the rights of the individual, Kunts-ie- r has no right even to be out of jail, let alone roaming around the country collecting handsome fees for preaching violence and anarchy to young people. The man is himself the very mockery of individual freedom. He is not talking about freedom; he is talking about bringing the country down. In Mr. Kilpatricks presence indeed, to show his contempt for Mr. Kilpatrick Kuntsler brought the cheering militants to their feet with a threat that the revolutionaries will move next be mass murder. Some may contend that freedom of speech gives creatures like Kuntsler the license to voice such threats and to circulate such advocacies. Tt s sad, just the same, that he should be permitted, not to mention invited, to appear on any college campus. At the very least, such ex-plic:- tly should be required to hire their own halls and raise their own crowds off campus and away from any semblance of academic respectability. One is tempted to discuss the judgment of administrators at Vanderbilt for their having perm tted Kuntsler to appear on the campus of that university. But there are doorsteps closer home which need sweeping. At the very hour that Kuntsler was at Vanderbilt, shaking hs fst it America, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was playing host to Rennie Davis, one of the leading Chicago Seven defendants. Davis at Chapel Hill, like Kuntsler at Vanderbilt, was a delight to those who fly the fraudulent banners of peace while calling for the utter destruction of America. Th;s stations news department, incidentally, discovered that Davis was offered an extra fee for an extra speech while at Chapel Hill. The university's law school invited him to expand his espousal of violence and disruption in a special address to the law students. Only an inconvenient airline schedule deprived Davis of the extra money. Jack Kilpatricks involvement in the episode at Vanderbilt remains, however, a puzzlement. Mr. Kilpatrick has built a career upon the doctrine that Americas principles are both precious and fragile, deserving of eternal vigilance. Yet he went to Nashville to appear on the stage with a Kuntsler a madman dedicated to anarchy. Perhaps Mr. Kilpatrick imagined that he might somehow manage to offset Kuntsler, that he might be able to reason even with the kind of mentality that turns out to cheer a man who boasts of holding a knife to the countrys throat. Mr. Kilpatrick was wrong. One might as well try to talk sense to a nest of rattlesnakes. In short, Kuntsler knew what he was doing. Mr. KilpatncV. didnt; Arncvican Wy Ver tures rabble-rouse- rs . (Mr. Helms is Executive Vice President of Raleigh. N.C.) of justice." Under this treaty, the term "genocide? has a meaning given to it that the average person would not ex- says that genocide means "causing serious Eect It or MENTAL HARM to members of the group oruvn (national, ethnical, racial or religious group). As everybody on earth is a member of an ethnic or racial group, any criticism could be deemed racial and causBy Marilyn Manion ing serious mental harm. In fact, the Black Panthers have for sometime been charging the police officers PERPETUATING POVERTY who arrest them, with genocide. Our troops in Vietnam are being charged with genocide by the. Communists and their sympathizers both in and out of our country. Under this treaty the vantage of all of the advancements of science. Practically everyone these days is an expert United Nations could make We are not taking advantage of it mainly due on the subject of Latin America. They have an the decision as to whether or to the fact that no one wants to adopt the concise its and a instant and ills, diagnosis of 7L JH, not any such charges warranted a trial of those accused. It is important to know that the United Nations would then have the power to decide if such trail would be conducted by an American tribunal or by some international tribun- simple prescription to bring about a cure. The diagnosis is that a very few, very rich people own all of the land; the majority of the population lives in abject poverty. The cure? Redistribute the land and the wealth through agrarian reform and income taxes. A recent guest on the Manion Forum radio n issue with this program synopsis and offered some very different causes and cures. Mr. Manuel Ayau of Guatemala underdiscussed the problems of modern-da- y said other he that things, development. Among redistribution is not the answer. Here are some of Mr. Ayaus comments: The principal characteristic of an underdeveloped country is shortage of capital. And this can only be corrected by an accumulation rk cliche-ridde- al designated by the United Nations. We must ask the question, under the definition of genocide given above, in what position would the L.D.S. Church be with respect to the negro and the Priesthood if our Senators ratified this treaty? Understandably our eyes opened wide when we read the editorial in of local savings andor foreign capital. the "Deseret News" calling for the Senate ratification of I am a firm believer that this treaty which would nullify the rights of individuals is manmade. I believe that underdevelopment capital is available. and groups living in this country. in it the bid have to world capital marfor You Yes, we of the Utah Indepei so you must behave properly if you want the "Constitution of The United States As Having Been ket, to obtain your share. Most underdeveloped Divinely Inspired," as mentioned everyday on the mastcontrary. head of the Deseret News editorial page. We do not, countries do just thecountries Underdeveloped today enjoy trehowever, believe the Genocide Treaty to have Divine mendous advantages compared to underdevelorigin but more likely' was conceived by an opposite countries like the United States a hundred power. Let us not be so hasty in calling for the Div- oped and fifty years ago. We have electric power, inely inspired wisdom written into our Constitution to we have penicillin, we have everything that be superseded by a satanic law conceived for the purmodern civilization ha$ produced in the adpose of destroying us. Remember, "Free men can vote vanced countries. And yet we seem to find themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote ways of preventing ourselves from taking ad themselves free." . system that made the United States develop and prosper, and that is a market economy. The accumulation of foreign capital is greatly hampered by the prevailing attitude and past history of expropriations by the government, or threat of expropriations, and constant harassment. I dont think that foreign aid has helped, because the U.S. aid comes conditioned upon reforms to our legal system and our institutions. - The philosophy behind these forms is a redistribution philosophy instead of a productive philosophy. What I mean to say is that most of these programs are more concerned with spreading the wealth than with producing the wealth. The American press has created the impression that Latin America is an area where there are a very few rich people oppressing millions. True, there are a very few rich people, but what we need is more of those rich people and not redistribute the wealth that the few have been able to attain. These few oligarchs are the biggest employers in Latin America. They are the ones that are fulfilling the function of capital accumulation, which the poor people cannot do simply because they dont earn enough. And the redistribution of this wealth, which is what they really mean by changing the social structures, is the most damaging thing that they could ever do to these American Way Features poor people. so-call- ed |