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Show Page 10 The Utah Independent March 18, 1976 ( THE SCOTT REPORT CALLOWAY'S Paul Scott Washington: Howard Bo Callaway, the Presidents tough talking campaign manager, has been put in a highly personal em- barrassing position by GOP challenger Ronald Reagans them: Secretary Kissinger also has been passing the word that there will be no Panama Canal Treaty this year, Note. As House Republican leader in 1967, Ford opposed any new Panama Canal treaty that would end U.S. sovereignty over this important waterway. explosive charge that President Ford is seeking to give away the strategic Panama Canal, While serving as Secretary of AND KENNEDY the Army during the first year of ABORTION Senator Edward the Ford Administration, Kennedy (D. Mass.) is having his made the identical political problems with the Callaway charge in private conversations abortion issue, with a group of U.S. Senators, in- His opposition to a eluding a close friend of the former Constitutional Amendment that would protect the right to life of the California Governor. in the unborn is beginning to cost him Callaway took part talks as chairman of the Federal support among Catholic voters in Government Corporation known his home state of Massachusetts as the Panama Canal Company and throughout the country, A graphic illustration of this and was pictured by the lawmakers as despairing over the Presidents opposition is the withdrawal of position supporting Secretary of support by Attorney Edward State Kissinger's plan to end U.S. Hanify, Boston, a long time friend sovereignty over the strategic and lawyer for the Kennedy family, Hanify, who represented the waterway. As Reagan is now doing in his Senator during his Chappaquidick speeches attacking arraignment, has refused to either campaign President Ford and his foreign contribute or support Kennedy for That's how strong policy, Callaway complained one the leading judicial of how about Kissinger Hanify, bitterly ' .dominates all foreign policy experts in the Boston area, feels making in the Ford Ad- - about his victions. As he explains it: Among the lawmakers present Occasionally in the history of when Callaway voiced his com- nations, an issue arises that goes to plaints was Senator Jesse Helms the heart of its whole value system. (R. N.C.), now vigorously cam- - Abortion is such an issue. Those of paigning for Reagan in his bid to us who saw the storm coming and win the Republican Presidential fought the initial efforts to nomination. liberalize abdrtion have one basic , Senator Helms is one of the objective to make certain that the leaders of the 3S Senators opposing people of the country face the issue. We do not propose to let Kissingers plan for negotiating a new treaty that would give the pro- - traditional party allegiance or Cuban government of Panama personal friendship obscure our sovereignty over the U.S. owned position. and run Canal. Because of the im- What turned Hanify and Helms the has of issue. portance many of his friends against begun putting Callaway on the Kennedy was the position he took spot by spotlighting the position he last spring when, as floor manager took as Army Secretary. As Helms for a health-revenu- e sharing bill, he and successfully puts it in recent speeches for aggressively Reagan: fought off an amendment to bar There are some people who federal payments for abortions know the answer of why President under the Medicaid program. Ford is seeking to give away the Right to Life groups Panama Canal. One of those is Bo throughout the country have Not long ago, Bo sistently picketed Kennedy when Callaway as the Secretary of Army, he appears at Democratic fund-wa- s the Chairman of teh Board of raising dinners. These groups are the Federal Government now preparing for demonstrations Corporation known as the Panama at the Democratic National Canal Company. He took a very Convention in July to oppose any keen interest in the Canal Com- - Kennedy draft for the nomination, pany affairs, and knew what was Kennedy, who says he is comYet he really going on. personally against abortion, has miserated with me over the future tried to counter-ac- t this growing of the Canal. He despaired over opposition by Right to Life groups the Presidents policy. by introducing in the Senate so- "Mr. Fords own campaign called alternative to abortion The legislation. manager complained to me that the legislation. President was being led around by authorizing $30 million for the the nose by his advisers. I suggest next three years on health and the Press ask Mr. Callaway about counseling services for pregnant this matter. And as Mr. Callaway girls, is being opposed by the right is well aware, theres another to life movement on the grounds Senator, and a very prominent one part of the funds would go to who is in a position to corroborate services promoting sex education it. I wonder if that is not one programs and for abortion reason Mr. Callaway was kicked referrals. upstairs from Army Secretary to veteran political Many because he was observers here now believe that the campaign manager the of of abortion as a resisting policies Secretary emergence Kissinger, and Kissinger knew growing issue in the 1976 presiden-aboit. tial campaign could turn out to be a camthe Ford Strategy of major roadblock to any draft has been to paign headquarters try Kennedy movement should there to play down the charges of be a deadlock at the New York Reagan and Helms by ignoring Convention in July. politically GO? EM- BARRASSMENT By WHERE DID "WE anti-aborti- on on. con-Callaw- ut If they close down our Post Office our community will die, said an overalled farmer on this mornings TV news. The scene on the screen was a replica of our little county. Post Office at Big Fork, Arkansas which was closed down in 1972 after over half a century of service. On that June day in 72 I listened to comments from my neighbors. Those heard today on the news could have been a replay of that scene. How come they have to close our Post Office? We need it. And another lamented, Think of that! No place to get together when the morning chores are done. Then an ancient, lady remarked, Reckon they coulda run our little Post Office a heap o to years on what theyre them furriners that wouldnt give us the time o day! Most of Big Forks citizens and those on todays TV news must know that our government is supposed to derive its powers from the consent of the governed. But not one of them questioned the right of they to close down their Post Ofsun-bonnet- ed fices. All over the nation today they are busy jnarking off and confiscating wilderness lands that belong to private citizens. Why are they forcing private citizens to sell or trade away their wilderness acres? National Forest employees, who have jurisdiction over these acquired lands, tell us this land-managem- ent and wilderness takeover is for preservation of the for future wilderness and wild-lif- e generations: that we, and our posterity, may have access to a beautiful wilderness where every flora and fauna species of wild-lif- e, are preserved in a natural state; where we can enjoy the great outdoors on vacations or week-end- s. If this last is so, why is it that there are steel posts and chains barring us from access to the wilderness roads where we used to drive on Sundays for a picnic or swim? One irate citizen who pulled up the stakes, threw the chains aside, and drove into the forest was still in jail awaiting trial when last I heard of him. They locked him up for trespassing on Government property which they forced him or a neighbor to sell to them. Are they preserving the wilderness? A sign where the country road turns into this wilderness area proclaims Forest Service From time to time I drive up one of the roads leading to these National Forest logging operations to view the destruction in progress there. The mountains vibrate with the roar of chain saws I watch the and bulldozers. quivering of giant trees, and hear the crashing fall of these pines that have stood for a hundred years or I watch the bulldozers more. uproot almost all of the small trees, destroy the flowers and flowering shrubs, making an enchanted forest into a shambles of raw earth and splintered trees and limbs. One day, when the loggers had left, I climbed through the rubble to a hilltop where the sunset used to glow through the pines making patterns of black and gold on the deep pine needles and moss that carpeted the forest's floor. As I stood there, my hurting too deep for tears. I saw the ground move in a deep rut made by a bulldozer tire. I dug cautiously with my boot toe and suddenly a tiny rabbit darted Logging. Mary A. Swaty from the hole I'd made. After watching him bound into a tangle of torn limbs and dirt, I sat down and began to dig into his ruined nest. I knew there would be more babies there. There were. They were all dead. Another day I was studying a giant pine, wondering why it had been felled and wasted, when I saw the beautiful bushy tail of a raccoon hanging from under the massive tree trunk. Perhaps he, like one of my neighbors, had chosen to make a stand, refusing to leave his home. Where are they who are destroying our community life; bringing death to our little towns? Where are they" who are buying or trading for our lands which we want to keep and preserve for our children? They must be doing this legislating at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant. They who are ordering this destruction cant have lived here, or in a similar place. They can't have known the peace of sitting alone by a quiet stream, or the joy of being awakened each morning by the song of birds and frogs and insects; the thrill of watching a sky and the hills bathed in the glow of the sunset; seeing flocks of geese or ducks lowering in its glow, to land on the pond or the river. More importantly, where and who are we that we are sitting by silently while our towns die and forests disappear, leaving our hills and mountains at the mercy of flooding and erosion? A venerable document, once considered a guideline undisputed in the our government, of operation Is begins, We. the people...." No! are? That cant that who we be us, for every guarantee of liberty and justice and our rights contained in that document has been transgressed or revoked, or is in the process of being destroyed while we sit by and concede that they have the right and the power tcfdo , these things. Admitting that I know not who we are, I turn back to who they are: Could they be the in another people described document in the pages of this worn and yellowed book my father gave me many years ago? It speaks of the truth of the unalienable rights with which our Creator endowed us. It points out that these rights should be secured by a government which derives its just powers from the consent of the The accusations of governed. tyranny and injustice in this document are directed at he, England's ruler. Had Jefferson written they into this document, many of its accusations would fit the great they" we bow down to today. Let us supplement he" with they and see how well the shoe fits the feet of our mighty they" of today. They have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our Laws: giving their assent to their Acts of pretended' Legislation: ....For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For...abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments: They have made Judges dependent on their Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount of Payment oftheirSalarics. They have erected a Multitude of new Offices, and Bv self-evide-nt sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance. No, they are not these same men who now have rested in their graves for two centuries. But could not the blood of these same tyrants course in their veins, committing them to the same acts of tyranny? Somewhere there must be. a biological reason why men would rise to slay their own freedom and the freedom of their fellow citizens. If this be the reason, and the blood of those early oppressors is now stirring these men today to their present actions, so like those of their forefathers in England, then what has happened to the blood of those patriots who rose up to rebel and make our nation free of their despotism? Why doesnt this blood now cry out in some of us against op- pression, taxation without representation, confiscation of lands, revocation of the right to keep and bear arms, the right to privacy and freedom in our homes. Does not this blood boil with resentment when they require us to get a permit to build a barn or a house, or even to put in a commode or bath tub or a kitchen sink? Is it possible that the blood of freedom has been so watered down by the cry of Free! that we do not know we are being enslaved? Government hand-out- s, housing, recreation: The hundreds of parks, free dangled things marked before us by politicians, for which we exchange our rightful monies and our liberty! Are our eyes so blinded by these baubies they give us, and for which we and our posterity pay an increasingly high price, that we cannot see the prison into which they are herding us, and the doors that will soon close, irrevocably, if we- - continue to walk meekly through them. Through my youth and middle years I did all I could to combat this encroachment of slavery in our country. I now bequeath to my children and their children this slavery, or the right to rise up against "they to whom we are trading our birthright for a mess of pottage. . Declaration of Independence THE GREAT DANGER -THE SOVIET UNION The Chinese Communists state categorically that the Soviet Union is the most dangerous source of war. Teng said in his toast: Today it is the country which most zealously preaches peace that is the most dangerous source of war. Rhetoric cannot detente about cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war. -- Christian Anti- Communist Crusade STOP ABORTION IM TOO YOUNG TO DIE! |