| Show I Alt3 I The Salt Lake Tribune I1 - Forrest C Crawford Last August 75000 Americans from across the nation Uncluthng Utahns) participated in the 30th celebration of the anni ersa-historic It)63 civil rights march on Washington Utah no less enthusiastic in its "amen to the cause" successfully shaped the meaning of this event for its special purpose as well Led by the state's Martin Luther King Jr Human Rights Commission Salt Lake City added the name "Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard" to the 600 South exit from Interstate 15 in honor of that great American On the surface the project seemed a relatively safe and uneventful request The commission submitted a petition to the Salt Lake City mayor and city council requesting that this honorary gesture be a component in a series of commemorative activities The activities would eventually be capped by a small (200 plus) but enthusiastic representative group that marched from Liberty Park to the City and County Building "Uneventful" however proved an inaccurate characterization The 600 South issue quickly attracted a diversity of responses ranging from "horrifying" to "a petili on v hose time has come" Our media continued interest in the matter reporting opinions printing editorials and covering meetings on the MLK request As the issue unfolded it was apparent that adding King's name to 600 South was symbolic of the many sentiments the name Martin Luther King Jr still evokes in the hearts and minds of Salt Lake City citizens "He's unfit" "Why somebody black?" and "He's never been to Utah" heralded some thinking More volatile opinions surfaced as personal telephone calls and threats were made to some of our local leaders Providing a striking contrast were comments like "It's time" "A state holiday now a state street — yeah!" and "Why not honor our Nobel Prize winner for peace?" In the final analysis the people spoke with a loud and compelling voice rarely heard in our otherwise benign interactions with each other: 600 South would also be known as "Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard" a transforming "Amen" Utah style While detailed memories of the highs and lows of that campaign slowly fade I have come to realize that this issue was not the typical By - I y ti grf public debate The ready availability of handstreets guns has made inner-cit- y wilder and more dangerous than the wild West ever was and has given our country an international reputation as being a violent place The Brady bill is a light of sanity in the insane darkness of uncontrolled gun use in this country I hope the day is not far off when handguns will be totally GEORGIA DAVIS Salt Lake City our community let their voices be known The effect? Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard That accomplishment makes the Martin Luther King Boulevard more than just a street name It represents for Utah a constant reminder of the deliberate character we must continue to carve ourselves recognizing that the full measure of what we want to be is in a process that dignifies our citizens' voice as the central catalyst for achieving such goals Most of all as we approach our ninth state holiday observance 600 Luther King Jr Boulevard becomes a link in a chain of many challenges some resolved many yet to be resolved We now have a boulevard to remind us of the power of unified rational and committed civic participation a triumph no single inthroughout cies : : ' ' : : : : e I CI' : : 1 Eli 1 14 of medical ethics but also keenly felt and deeply rooted moral convictions The problem is that the fetuses are immature human babies and for many people the thought of using humans however incomplete or defective as raw material for any purpose even a worthy scientific one violates the basic notion of the value sacredness if you will of human life a notion enshrined in the founding documents of this country The revelations this week of the use by the US government of tatti4MPV:0 FKIA I AsIR AL- L- 11 SitvE YOU CRS PART CC GCNPIVINI PP014TIOR 7 i Evatailt5 NIY NOI - - -- ! s 4 I t ma ' -- : 'Ito- w- )A 0 tigfi I !Htfidar ' V 1 P 1 it' fLriC't 't it (NA ' 4°I ' - t ''' '' ''' : - 2 ' - rii t t f 1 4- ::: I f sf I::: - '":':i' - g:: T A ' - '' t(ilf : i': tr::: 4 i:4-4'- r ! - - 4 4- 'i?" r ' AutVip4 "di '411r' Ate 'ci :':- 's a 41r - 1 2 AI ' NA LO' ' 1111111111Ep - '' 4 - 1 '''''-- (94 i " Pili li-- - 1 ' ( '' -- N'Ilitogro:1-- - I' --- - : '44'k- - '' 4- i- : ' : - ' - ' : -- 4: I : ' ' f4t-- ::p ' ' 1 ' : : 4'7' J 1- It Pride -- ea s ""':' ' - 40- - ' ) :''' asalor ' x le ' V Frozen ' - t '' Street 111c-rk- et ! 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If the aborted babies are not human then why aren't their brain cells rejected when they are introduced into another living human body? : E cw ::- the terminally ill patients the "11411k iti ' e m actiliftehre nethically efsrtho irthsai tt of n tarded schoolchildren or the ) - :wi-- 4 11 0 s — i- thiuo 1 UuLoLu abort them and then salvage usable parts If aborted fetuses used for experimental purposes are - Eftectitiviev9 - It- IL formed human babies are therefore thought to be nonhuman by the medical researchers who - tI777 c ' ) - 090ftb- - '911111)9" Fetuses being incompletely I Wit'6'w I r Ni- -c s' McDonough )71 11:1 ICIALLY YCIT1U I Edward !AT : islI37:--- vulnerable classes of human beings as unknowing guinea pigs for radiation experiments draws a compelling parallel In one case nuclear scientists injected radioactive plutonium into patients with terminal diseases These patients had illnesses that were going to kill them in five or 10 years anyway said the implicit scientific reasoning so why not use them to gain valuable scientific information? The dying patients being less than perfect humans were treated as subhuman In another study radioactive milk was given to pupils at a school for retarded children The rationale here seems to have been that the retarded children being imperfect humans were a subhuman species that could be used as laboratory animals The same rationale was used to justify horrific medical experiments upon the inmates of Nazi concentration camps And the same rationale is seen by critics of fetal research in the experimental use of pieces of aborted fetuses Point of Law cells from aborted fetuses was announced Researchers at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center will remove a piece of the brain of aborted fetuses and extract brain cells for injec bon into the brains of Parkinson's Disease patients result is that the The hoped-fo- r implanted brain cells of a type that produces the brain chemical dopamine will make up for the loss of these type of cells in the brains of the Parkinson's patients A worthy end But there are those who question the ethical validity of the means What the executive branch of the government has been doing is legislating law by administrative order and regulation This is never a good practice in a field that is very sensitive to public opinion and this is one of the more publicly sensitive issues of our time in yoking not only delicate questions Somebody needs to make a public protest against that sacrilegious Whoopi Goldberg movie "Sister Act" The Catholic nuns don't deserve such a stupid portrayal I had them as teachers Their spiritual influence !I remain forever They excel in classroom instruction because they demand the best The strict basic grammar I learned from them enhanced my federal career of 38 years Hollywood is a great source of sleaze and should remain in its realm of depicting questionable morals AIELDA RENVILLE Brigham City Richard Henry Lee 1788: "A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms" GARY BILLS Sandy 9 t research the awarding of the first such post-ba- n grants for research using Unfair to Nuns ' Ogden Utah 84408 Mr Crawford is chairman of the Utah Martin Luther King Jr Human Rights Commission The article expresses positions of the commission A year after President Clinton h g man" ''' Experiments Treat Fetuses as Subhuman announced an end to the Reagan-Busban on government grants gram where police officers on the ground actually occupy and become familiar with the area where police presence is needed Where did that come from? That's a good program MARK CHATFIELD Salt Lake City ry Harrison Blvd Material should be mailed to Common Carrier The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 - policing pro- nity-oriented Prices Today's Common Carrier author is Forrest C Crawford assistant professor of teacher education at Weber State University 3750 well-bein- rt device metering tickets to the public makes me cringe with shame West Valley police try to justify it on the basis of speed reduction Don't you believe it It's money that drives that program Having said all that I see where West Valley has initiated the commu- dividual could likely have nomic political and social of the Intermountain Area Articles should dibe timely have a basic idea promote alogue and be challenging "open letters" are not acceptable Common Carrier board members include Johnnie Mae Martin a case manager for youth corrections in the Utah Department of Corrections Roselyn former president of the Bountiful League of Women Voters Ken Zenger retired Utah coordinator for the American Bert Federation of Teachers AFL-CI- d radar-contr- ol criminologist Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and Punishment 1764: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarms only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides for an armed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed Eliminate the sales tax on prescription drugs This will help the poor the elderly and the chronically ill Eliminate the sales tax on staple groceries food items such as fruit vegetables meat fish (all food items that are necessary to good health) This will help the "average" person whose income is almost entirely spent on food clothing and shelter NORMAN W ALLEN Salt Lake City achieved alone The challenge is ours to continue to let our citizens' voice be the central catalyst for addressing the remaining challenges before us Spiegel school psychologist and former State Department employee and Michael Wright director of the Earth Science Labomtory University of Utah Research Institute Articles need not be professionally prepared but should be no longer than 900 words and be typed and double spaced They should pertain to the eco- er Board of Lay Editors Articles in this department are selectboard of lay editors ed by a which operates independently of The Tribune editorial and reportorial poli- contractor-owned-and-operate- Thomas Jefferson quoting 18th-centu- how: South-Marti- n money-grubbin- g arms" law-abidin- 1 no-kno- ck Thomas Jefferson 1776: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms" Thomas Paine 1775: "Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as property Horrid mischief would deensue were the prived the use of them" As a result of a questionable budgeting program the state ended up with a budget surplus Congratulations Gov Leavitt on your good fortune and ours We realize it is very tempting to give this windfall to the Utah Education Association and other groups that helped in the elections but let's look beyond this year and see if there is a way to help all of the Utah people who are hurting from repressive federal state and local taxes Here's One August night citizens g Opinions expressed in Common Carrier do not necessarily reflect those of The Salt Lake Tribune or the Common Carri- fetal-tissu- In this age of politically correct gun control hysteria with gun control advocates trying to convince us that our forefathers never really intended for the individual to have the right to bear arms it is time for us to the words of our founding fathers words that many of our national as well as local politicians would prefer that you never read or at least had forgotten Samuel Adams 1788: "The constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their er g Common Carrier Invites Articles for The Founders on Guns reduced When I was growing up when men wanted to fight they used their fists Now they pull out their guns and try to kill each oth- Central City Neighborhood Council in the consensus-buildinprocess All these interplays resulted in what to me really mattered nted Po-ru- m Reduce Sales Tax ill I'd like to comment on West Valley's Photo Cop vs community-oriepolicing (COT) (The Tribune reported on both pro- grams in separate stories Dec '27) Chief Dennis Nordfelt's cowboy police department has distinguished itself with unprofessionalism over all the years I have lived in Utah There have been many incidents but I'll recall just a few First there was the racetrack affair where the West Valley cops stirred up a riot and then had to call for help to quell it Then they terrorized a dog in its own yard for an hour till it attacked out of pure panic and frustration Then they killed it And don't forget the time they initiated the warrant on the house where there were no drugs and killed the resident Then came PhotoCop the most disgraceful crass plan ever initiated by a govemment agency The idea of a double-- own What I continue to think about is how Martin Luther King Boulevard has been a turning point a defining moment not just for the King Commission but for Utah in general I am humbly reflective about how this event has come to symbolize the hopes and aspirations of many of our citizens And though I am no stranger to local political processes it was also to see quite frankly the support and hear the opposition as people engaged in public dialogue It renewed my appreciation of the vital role our ecclesiastical communities play and of how potent traditional civil rights and grassroots organizations are in the context of bringing life to our local affairs It was also reaffirming to learn how significant can be the impact of involving city county and state government in the decision-makinprocess It was enlightening to recognize the role of city and campus newspapers as well as groups like the West Valley Cops spaced lent crimes are drastically Forrest C Crawford AA than your name will be kept confidential Preference Is given to original letters of 300 words or less that are typewritten and permit publication of the writer's true name (Names may be withheld for good reason) All letters are subject to editing Mail to Public The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 people people taking drugs cause the harm So why restrict the availability of drugs? And alcohol is innocent too so its use shouldn't be controlled or restricted Most people with a functioning brain know this is total nonsense Guns are not innocent In countries where handguns are severely restricted such as Canada vio- Blvd City Center ntn ?rm: I-- numbers Information other If that is so then it also follows that drugs don't kill or harm 6th South Martin Luther King Jr 4 Public Forum please include your full name signature address and daytime telephone do" 160 1 AAA 1 When submitting letters to the that people are still touting that same old tired NRA propaganda: "Guns don't kill people people CdP11" Exit 310 — ' &kJ Where to Write I was disappointed to see in Ted Brem's letter (Forum Dec 24) - 4 Arik Outlaw Handguns L4:11:tb! 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