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Show Letters to the editor tickled pink to make the wages they made last year.let alone have the guts to ask for more money. When they strike, commercials will cost more when they return to work and the cars I sell go up to pay for the extra advertising ad-vertising and you know the rest. We all suffer for their greediness; It wouldn't hurt me if they never went back to work gain. NFL can't you help us get America moving again? Lynn Bulloch Cable TV Editor: , By reading some views on cable TV you would think by subscribing to cable you are perverted. , Well I don't think so. My wife and I have had cable TV, HBO included, for two years now and we have really enjoyed the great entertainment. en-tertainment. The specials have been great, and no commercials. Yes, if you want to see a colorful movie, you can, if you want to stay up to watch it in the middle of the night. Sometimes there is an R rated movie on at 9 or 10 in the evening and I'm so thankful I have two hands to turn the switch to "off." How difficult! I have that right. Now, up until two months ago the cable TV picture has been perfect. But, now you don't know from day to day if you'll get a picture or even a good one. The local cable people have been super with me and they have reported that the complete problem will not be solved until some new lines in certain areas are replaced. The problem falls back on the owners and managers of the main cable headquarters because they, up til now, have not sent or authorized new cables to be installed. ' There have been so many people in Cedar, complain of the poor service, and the city has notified the company to fix up or there will be no contract renewal. Thanks City. Now my final gripe. I can't believe that the NFL would strike. I would be Duties Editor: These days we hear often about rights, and almost never about duties. If we don't take care of the duties we won't for long have the rights. The recent .decision of the Supreme Court obstructing ' legislation of an number of states should warn us of the need to return to the Constitution and stop the court from legislating. It also should remind us of the infamous decision of the Warren Court ordering God from our schools. The Constitution provides that Congress be the lawmaking body. It also provides that Congress determine what cases go before the Supreme Court. It should use this power before the Supreme Court becomes a complete dictator. Any historian worthy of the name will tell you that most of the citizens of the thirteen original colonies feared and distrusted the threat of a strong central government. Especially they did not want a central government messing with their religion. So in the very first sentence of the Bill of Rights they ordered or-dered that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or:; prohibiting the free exercise thereof"; Since the framers of our Constitution had provided that Congress be the lawmaking body the authors of the First Amendment evidently thought that they were forever preventing the U.S. government govern-ment from interfering with the religious practices of the people and the states. Being honorable men they did not suspect that the members of a court would attempt to legislate. They did not address the philosophical question of separation of chuch and state, and left any decision concerning it to the states or to be people through their Congress. Peace will not be gained through confrontation. Let us try cooperation, with on site inspection. More cable TV Editor: I agree whole-heartedly with the letter to the editor written by Sharon Bigelow (Sept. 30). The Cable TV Initiative is a petition signed by at least 31,000 registered voters which contains . a proposed statute to be enacted by the legislature. The legislature may not amend the proposal contained in the initiative, it may either pass or reject it. If it passes it then the statute becomes law of the state. There are those who would argue that we cannot "legislate morality." I would refer them to a statement made , by Dr. Richard J. Neuhaus and quoted Vt by Dallin H. oaks in "The Popular Myth of the Victimless Crime:" "Through laws a community tries to reinforce what it considers right and good, and to restrain or suppress what it considers wrong and bad. Lawmaking never has been and never can be value-free, objective, computerized. "The debate, then about what ought and what ought not to be a crime is a debate about morality. Legal discourse at least reflective legal discourse is moral discourse When we refuse to "raise our voice" in opposition to those proponents of pornography in the media, aren't we giving our approval? Colleen Fife |