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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Stand A May 29, 1975 The Utah TOM ANDERSON Independent Page 3 ON COURSEi A METRO COMIC by Jo Hindman Copyright 1975 with Capt. Joe H. Ferguson commissioner was chewing out a coastal county commissioner. The latter warned about the perils of metro regional governance and its implementing source, the political monopoly called 1313 because of one of its most notorious addresses. 1313 F. 60th St.. Chicago (III.). The rural commissioner, a woman, argued. There arc many small tow ns in District 2 that have benefited greatly by the services offered and performed by the District 2 region staff since these small towns have neither the personnel with the expertise nor the money to hire such a person to take care of applying for federal funds for them." A rural If youre a little man and bribe a politician, you get three years; if you are a labor union and bribe a politician, you get pro-lablegislation; if and bribe a you are super-ric- h politician, you get to be Vice President. or 92 IN ARREARS ON DUES Of the 135 nations in the Communist and Cannibal Club called the U.N., ninety-tw- o are now in arrears on their dues and assessments. Of the $204 million in arrears, more than half is owed by the Communist nations which are the main beneficiaries of the U.N. Our enemies and cheats stay in, while our friends who pay their bills, like the Republic of China and South Africa, are kicked out, as we of the pay more than one-thir- d total cost of the United Nations, whose main goal is to destroy us. We should get out of the United Nations and get the United Nations out of the United States. We should so-call- ed belong to no world organization which infringes the sovereignty of the United States. The only peace the world will ever see will be with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. HES A PHONY bringing Marx .peace to Lenin, Stalin, , Khrushchev, Mao Tse Tung and Castro were all for peace. The peace of the regimented dictatorship, the peace of the prison, the peace of the mass grave. Soon we will have peace in Cambodia. But I will not be at peace until we have a public investigation and accounting, and a sentenceing, of those of our leaders who sold us out Christendoms to George Aiken, retiring Big announces that we and freedom's most dedicated enemies, diabolical the Communists. The .inside word in Hersheyton (80 percent chocolate and 20 percent nuts) is that the fiscal 1976 budget may put us as much as $100 billion into the red for the year. Whether its $10 billion or $100 billion it is criminal, and the people responsible for it should not only be impeached, they should be prosecuted and imprisoned. They are destroying our free Republic. either Virtually every done or suggested by the Ford Administration so-call- ed inflationary, deflationary, or unconstitutional. The politicians refusal to live within the budget reminds me of the sweet young thing is husband exasperated complained about her to live failure continuous Spender, must reduce spending. Aiken reminds me of Mae West, who is no longer much interested in sex. People like Aiken brought us to the brink of bankruptcy, revolution and dictatorship. As always, hes a phony. within her budget. All right! she replied indignantly. So I spend a lot of money! But THE GREATEST PROBLEM Contest: How many things can you think of which haven't gone up in the past 40 years? Honest politicians would be one thing, of course, but I was thinking of things you buy. Offhand, the only thing I can think of is long distance telephone rates. The Our national not of problem is erosion the soil, but of the national greatest morality. Our major problem not depression, poverty, unemployment or ignorance. As Theodore Roosevelt said: A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. The majority of our last ten Presidents have been thieves, as are a large proportion of our Senators and Congressmen. Of course, there are worse things than merely being is crooked. Many of our honest Big Businessmen are selling us out to the enemy, just as Lenin predicted they would. ALL FOR PEACE? Henry Quislinger was the leftist Nobel awarded Peace Prize in 1973 for name 1 1 A ITS CRIMINAL whose Senator Vietnam. me other one commissioner who downgrades county government as a federal suckling of course can be expected to make a remark like that. Especially when the official's own State ranks as a have takes more than its not;--i- t taxpayers send to the federal treasury. Nor can that ilk understand the rudiments which call for the constitutional principle of direct election to validate the bond of representation between citizens and representative elected to an office. The rural commissioner was moonlighting by sitting on a district subregional board representing no one. None of the several companion commissioners had any right to be there, either, not having been elected to the council multi-count- y of governments (COG) by a regional constituency. Comically the COG member asked, So where arc these appointed persons you keep harping about? now. it is common By knowledge that the makeshift layer self-appoint- ed of region-oriente- planners d extravagance! between SAD, UNFORGIVABLE AND SCARY governments provides the political womb that incubates the multicounty geography and the nonrepresentative governing power HOW cost of government is up one thousand percent. Five cent cokes and candy bars are up 500 percent. Most items are as high as miniskirts, if you can find them the items, that is. We now enjoy the world's best and probably the worlds cheapest telephone service. So the government is instituting an anti-trusuit to break up the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Company. This effort is not new, of course. - st For many Marxist-type- years in s the our have promoted the nationalization of all essential services: electricity, government oil, coal, transportation, telephone, medicine, etc. We taxpayers have already been Continued on page 9 invoked local by and state regional and subregional governance. But the rural commissioner Use your went on scolding. common sense! Instead of taking local control away from local governments, the concept of the COGs is to give control to local government by letting us decide on our local level how and where federal funds should be spend." The absurdity is pathetic. The COG's can't give what they dont have. To date, the COGs have no legitimate power. Some function as temporary pass through devices delivering bureaucratic control over cities and counties federal help. that accept The city of Chicago has furnished Its revenue ample evidence. sharing umbilical got cut by U.S. Treasury Dept, because Chicago so-call- ed didn't comply with federal guidelines. Out of touch with reality, the commissioner rambled on an official county letterhead. Isnt that a heck of a lot better than having some appointed person back in Washington. D.C. decide? Continued on page 8 LEARNING FROM THE MAYAGUEZ INCIDENT Captain Joe H. Ferguson This past week saw Americas foreign policy involved in another crisis. Fortunately, the action taken was correct and the results were desirable. The rescue of the American merchant ship Mayaguez and its 39 crewmen by U.S. Marines restored a sense of pride to the hearts and minds of many disillusioned Americans. After our shameful defeat in South Vietnam, the firm and decisive action we took against the outlaw government of Communist Cambodia was a refreshing and heartening The President acted promptly and development. positively in ordering the rescue of this vessel from the Communist pirates. According to Congressman Steve Symms of Idaho, if we had not rescued the ship, we would have been known in the future as the chickens of the sea. Congressman Symms of Idaho took a firm position on the matter immediately upon learning of the capture of the Mayaguez. Symms encouraged the President to take immediate military action if the ship and its crew were not returned within 24 hours. Should the Communists have refused, Symms recommended to the President that we There is sink every vessel in the Cambodian Navy. simply no other way to deal with this kind of unprovoked piracy on the high seas, Symms asserted. The Idaho Congressman continued, The entire world is watching our actions today to see if we will once again bend our knees to communist blackmail. It is the responsibility of the U.S. Navy to protect the life and property of Americans on the Seven Seas. If we fail to act decisively on this matter, America will soon be known as the Chicken of the Sea. What lessons can we learn from the Mayaguez incident? There are no doubt many, but one especially comes to mind. We have finally learned that the only way to deal with unprovoked aggression is from a position of strength and determination. We must be willing and able to strike back in a swift, decisive manner, if that is the only language the aggressors understand. In crises such as these, in dealing with communists, there is no time for or diplomacy. When dealing with criminals such as the communists, we must be ready and willing to defend ourselves. With the Mayaguez and its crew once again free, all Americans can be proud of their countrys conduct during a most difficult crisis. We have shown to the countries of the world that the United States still has a backbone and is still worthy of their respect. We have shown that the principle of freedom of the seas still has a place in American foreign policy. And we have shown that the U.S. Marines are still capable of doing exactly what they are trained to do WIN if only the politicians will allow them to do so. faint-heartedne- head-in-the-sa- ss nd Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. -- Daniel Webster The mm Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent Is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail In the United States, $15.00 foreign. 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