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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Page 2 The Utah Independent June 30, 1977 ji'aiii.mimmiMiimimmmihiimlinMrHiiiiimf Iffl Ih Constitution, Liberty, We like to receive Letters To The Editor. Frequently, however, these letters are much too long for us to use. For this reason, we are Independont adopting the following policy: 1. Letters To The Editor should be typed (double-sp- a ?d) or written legibly on one side of an 8 !4x 1 1 sheet of paper. 2. We will publish these letters regularly as space permits. We appreciate the fact that some subjects require more length. In such instances they should be submitted as News Articles and will be subject to our regular editorial policies and current 3l MViBlilliSm I i ! KERSHNERS COMMENTARY By Dr. Howard E. Kershner 0 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT is constitutional. In the Fifth Amendment we read: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury. . Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb . . . Nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. . . We have ample meticulous due process of law. . and no one is advocating discontinuing it. The Supreme Court has said . . . the existence of capital punishment was accepted by the framers. At the time the Eighth Amendment was ratified, capital punishment was practiced in every state. The first Congress of the United State's enacted legislation providing death as the penalty for specified crimes. Capital punishment is constitutional, legal, and is upheld by a majority of the American people. In 1976 a Gallup poll found 65 percent of those replying favor- ' ing capital punishment. Capital punishment is not for the sake of vengeance against the murderer, but to protect more innocent people from suffering a similar fate at his hands. The usual alternative to capital punishment is life imprisonment, with eligibility for parole in a few years. The median time served in prison for homicide in Massachusetts's less .than 2a years. The murderer is then free to oommit and does commit other homicides. In a Florida case, J. Edgar Hoover once cited a prisoner who was committed for two murders, received clemency for each, and later committed a double murder. M. Stanton Evans cites this case in Human Events for February 12, 1977. He also cites five cases in California where murderers released on parole committed five additional homicides. Five paroled murderers in Pennsylvania between .1946 and 1956 also committed additional homicides. It cannot too often be repeated that the purpose of capital punishment is to protect the lives of other innocent victims. It remains a mystery why so many American people are more protective of criminals than of their victims. COMPANY OWNER SUES AND WINS men picked This time, however, the FDA strong-aron the wrong man. Douglas Heinsohn, owner of the Millet, Pit and Seed Co. of Catlinburg, Tennessee, from whom the property was confiscated, is not a man to take action lying down. He immediately such Gestapo-lik- e filed a lawsuit against the FDA and won. On May 30, in Knoxville, U.S; District Judge Robert L. Taylor ordered the FDA to return the supply of apricot kernels to Heinsohn: ' Heinsohn stated that justice has been rendered,... and expressed the hope that this is, ...the first long step in reassertion of the sovereignty of the individual over his own body, and overcoming this malaise which affects us all, namely, too much government and too many nosy bureaucrats. Mr. Heinsohn is certainly correct, not only in his statement but in his attitude. of resisting the unlawful actions of government agents. Congratulations, Doug Heinsohn, on a job well done. We hope that your courageous action will inspire other American citizens to stand fast for their rights when threatened by illegal actions of the agents of government. Incidentally, for those readers of The Utah Independent who are interested in a supply of apricot kernels, the address of Millet, Pit and Seed Co. is Norton Creek Road, Route 1, Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738. pornographers exhibiting Hope you get yours before they are all gone. I just sent a children in every imaginable sex act with each other and with letter to Doug for my order. The most dangerous President in the history of adults. The whipping post and the the country is Jimmy Carter, says New gallows were the order of the day of omsT so-call- . II Sincerely, Independent 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. Paid at Salt Lake City Publication No. 864280 Snd change of addreas forma and correapondence to 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utahs Largest and ed our Founding Fathers for such debauchery. . I hope that the pendulum is swinging away from such extremists who have held so much influence in government and back to the moral intent of our basic law. Pocatello, Idaho 83201 Robert D. Vesser CARTERS TO BE MOST UNLIKEABLE Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage Fastest-- ; Growing m . , th' SEED COMPANY BEATS FDA BUREAUCRATS By Capt. Joe H. Ferguson The student release time. of our contemporary society Founding Fathers and their intent in the Constitution was to prevent a State Church and prohibit government from interfering in the practice of religion. The Bible was extensively used in their classrooms and prayer was part of the instruction. Now thanks to civil libertarians, we have little moral and ethical instruction in the public schoolsrwe have no dress or grooming standards, little discipline and too much student input with resultant lack of respect for constituted authority. I disagree with Mr. Sellards (JOURNAL 61577) that thr American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) endeavors to support the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Rather, I feel, it works with liberal activists to destroy these basic laws and their original intent. I note in the June 13th U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT that the ACLU is working to protect .the supposed constitutional rights of We are told that capital punishment is racially unjust because about half of those condemned for homicide arc black. But since blacks enjoy all the privileges of citizenship, they must also assume its responsibilities. Continued on page ON COURSE FDA CONFISCATED APRICOT KERNELS A few weeks ago in this column, an account was 40 given of the confiscation by the FDA of approximately tons of of all things apricot kernels. Of course, the manner and FDA operated in its usual Gestapo-lik- e confiscated the property without due process of law or a trial of any kind. This abusive action by the FDA was just one more in a series against the users of a substance known as laetrile. Laetrile is produced from apricot kernels and is used by some physicians in this country for needs. the prevention and control of cancer. News items Must Be Fully The FDA has waged an almost fanatical attack upon Documented. We want to print ONLY THE TRUTH! the users of laetrile, although it has definitely shown to Many thanks. have therapeutic value and produces no significant THE EDITOR harmful side effects. And, although there is no law ACLU WHAT DOES against the use of laetrile, the FDA has repeatedly SUPPORT? confiscated supplies of it from both , physicians and patients. In this particular case, however, the legality or Dear Editor of laetrile does not even enter the picture. The We have enjoyed the illegality confiscated was not laetrile but raw apricot discussion in the JOURNAL material kernels. The FDA produced no reason, legal or rational, concerning the practice of religions school for the confiscation. As is too often the case, it acted supplementing public instruction at their own expense in without the benefit of legal or rational support. Morality; and Truth Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty Corinthians 3:17 Capital punishment Stand POLICY NOTICE Dedicated To The A Subscription Weekly Dear Editor: Americans dont want their government taking away their saccharin or their guns. They dont want prohibition in any shape or form. Americans dont want their government taking away ever more and more of their money by taxation and inflation. , Continued on page 8 Hampshire newspaper publisher Bill Loeb. Publisher of the states largest newspaper, Loeb says hes scared to death over Carters foreign policy. -- The American Way Features Will the livid Left never learn, or having learned never tell the truth? Writing in the Atlantic monthly last month, Stanley Meisler informed us that unless the Spanish Communist is Party the legalized, g elections will be a show. How about the sham elections in every Communist nation, where only one party can get on the ballot? How about legalizing the Nazi party in West Germany? Doesnt it have as much right to the ballot as the Communist Party in Spain? (The Communist did Party on the ballot get in Spain).... Hypocrisy, thy name is Liberalism forth-comin- . |