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Show Page 12 The Utah Independent November A The Paper That Dares To Take Stand 15, 1973 HAVE YOU BEEN BITTEN BY A MOSQUITO LATELY? Vern Myers, publisher of Myers Finance and Energy, points out that the raging rate of inflation wipes out most capital gains, and therefore taxpayers should take when this into consideration paying their income tax. For instance, stocks in England during the past five years have appreciated about 33. However, inflation is admittedly 30 over the same period. or Nothing Succeeds Like Success by Tom Breitling At the debate between Pete e, Grundfossen, paid Lake Salt Executive Director of. full-tim- Government Study Commission, and Tom Breitling, which was held Thursday morning, November 1st, at the University of County were Know Your County, calls special attention to cooperation between city and county in garbage collection. mosquito abatement and garbage collection. Professor J. D. Williams, at one point, asked Breitling to justify three mosquito abatement districts in the county, and All justification of the justifications of the METRO Pete for planners consolidated, community council government in Salt Lake County are feints to divert the peoples attention from the main thrust for power. Whereas in war this type of thing is to be expected, when it is done to one's own neighbors and friends, it takes on a different Grundfossen said there is a need in the county for good garbage pick up and sewage disposal. said he was so Breitling astounded at Dr. Williams concept of what constitutes a major problem area and furnishes a potential for aspect. Even the countys though emotion and and highly satisfactory dominated much have slogans Commission form of government, political action throughout in favor of a 1313 Charter, that he history, it is not necessary that this made no attempt to justify three be so. To avoid such an approach mosquito abatement districts. in considering county government, Later, when Breitling told a friend ask yourself what is so wrong with about this, the friend said, I have what we have that it cannot be lived here 12 years and do not by improved evolutionary remember being bothered by but must be development, mosquitoes. The three districts completely overturned and must be doing a good job. That replaced by a Charter that will would seem to be enough reduce the power of voters and justification. increase power of government. As One student wanted him to County Commissioner Ralph Y. refute Mr. Grundfossen's major McClure has publicly said. I am a and points about garbage pick-u- p strong believer in keeping declined he but to sewage disposal, government responsive. And you do so. Instead, Breitling pointed can do this with our present out that his purpose in being there of form commission was to inform the students of the government.. .without throwing it real problem, which is total entirely away and replacing it with from above government imposed a system we cannot say will work. througffffcgional structures, versus At the conclusion of his limited, sfbvernment as delegated prepared statement, Breitling from the people to their elected other things, that said, William one among effect of METRO representatives. possible overturning long-establish- ed Raspberry saidjt so well in a column in The Salt Lake Tribune on Saturday, November 3, referring to President Nixons feeling that he is the most powerful man on earth, The man seems not to hac understood that the awesome power he thought he possessed was never his. It was ours all along. He had it on loan, on condition that he not abuse it. Every reader of The Utah Independent must make himself aware that the real issue with regard to M ETRO is one of pow er. Garbage collection and sewage in this county are disposal excellent, and so are other county services. The library system is particularly good, and our county in works beautifully system cooperation with Salt Lake City Library without the existence or need for a 1313 Charter. Fires are being put out, there is cooperation between county and city at Hogle Zoo, and at the Salt Palace. In . fact, the League of Women Voters' THEY ARE MORAL. BUT DIFFERENT FROM OURS concerns citizens or residents living under it is, as it "Possible of suppression political rallies such as the one held Wednesday (October 24) when signatures were gathered on a petition to impeach Nixon." While this remark was greeted with skepticism by some persons present, it should be of interest to read elsewhere in this newspaper the exact words of a law being recommended for Utah and all other states.in 1974. This law is by being recommended Council of State Governments, a taxpayer supported arm of 1313 Center, the source of all The law METRO efforts. the rights of concerns a assembly, guaranteed , basic by right the Constitution, a right which docs not need a MODEL law to implement it. Such a model law can only reduce or take away such right. THEIR MORALS ARE The Communists have an entirely different set of morals. Their god is The State. Marx and Lenin gave them their They Commandments. Their religion is Communism-Socialisdone Politboro seek an world, the will of the on all the earth, even as it is done where the Communists now m. rule.. the Therefore, Utah's Hinckley Instute's Coffee and Politics session, the big issues , according to proponents of METRO, "LET ME READ YOU INFLATED INCOME average stockholder should pay taxes only on the 3 gain of value, not on the phoney 33. To be forced to pay taxes on the 30 inflation would of property confiscation be without due process of law. Myers further points out that the can apply ordinary All this logic to his tax bill. taxpayers should deduct the annual rate of inflation from their income before paying taxes and pay taxes only on the remainder -the actual income received exclusive of government-create- d wage-earn- er inflation. Myers asks why any taxpayer should submit to the illegal confiscation of his capital under the guise of an income tax. KOSHER VIETNAM? The present gasoline crunch and the upcoming fuel shortage are creating deep concern everywhere. And the ambiguous and conflicting statements emanating from sectors of the Nixon Administration add to the apprehension. Operating behind his usual veil of White House secrecy. President Nixon is not even hinting at what Is he he is really thinking. vacillating, as he has done in trying to dampen the fires of inflation? His wage-and-pri- ce controls, which were never effectively enforced, indicate that he may be following the same dithering course in dealing w ith the energy crisis. Insiders say that the various committees and agencies dealing with energy problems are deadlocked in controversies and that Nixon is waiting for Dr. Henry A. Kissinger to become thoroughly ensconced as Secretary of State in addition to his White House status as National Security mentor to the President to tackle the world-wid- e petroleum problem. Now that Mr. Nixon has lost most of his White House Brain Trust in the Watergate scandal, he relies even more on Kissinger. At the moment, attention is focused on the Middle East, where some two thirds of the worlds proven readily extractable oil reserves are located. Mideast oil is also by far the world's cheapest to produceas little as 10 cents a barrel in Kuwait. The rulers of the oil-ridesert lands have chosen this precise point of time to put the squeeze on prices and production. While the Midcast regimes are notoriously greedy, money is not their primary objective, however, since they already have vast hoards of gold and foreign currencies, nor arc they deeply concerned about the plight of the dispossessed Palestinians lor whom they express sympathy. What they arc alarmed about is the growing military might of Israel who covets the black gold of the militarily weak area. ch T his is w hy the Arab rulers, w ho hate each other, have suddenly united against the Western oil companies - American. British, Dutch and French - and through YOUR RIGHTS Ardette R. McLauchlan Dont let anyone tell you that you have Constitutional Rights, or that the First Teri Amendments are The Bill of Rights. These terms should make every liberty-lovin- g American quake in his boots. They reverse the intent of the United States Constitution so that the Federal Government is in the position of dispensing rights", with the people being subjects. Bills of rights are, in their origin, stipulations (1) between kings their and subjects, abridgments (2) of prerogative (3) in favor of privilege, reservations of rights not surrendered to the price.. .they have no application to constitutions, professedly founded upon the power of the pepple and executed by their immediate representatives and servants. Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing ; and as they retain everything, they have no need of particular reservations . (A. Hamilton, Federalist 84. Emphases mine.) Keep this in mind next time a TV cop reads the boob-tub- e public enemy his Unless Constitutional Rights. the American people understand this principle, we could very well find ourselves with the government allotting us our rights. Friends, you may read the Constitution of the United States forever, but you will not find a single right of the people described Search the first ten there. amendments, and you will find the same. The Constitution, in the first seven articles, sets up the way in which the Federal Government is to be constituted, hence the term The people, Constitution." through this Constitution, grant certain powers and responsibilities to their Federal Government. The first ten amendments, far from being a Bill of Rights for the people, are a bill of further restrictions on the powers of the Federal Government. (4) The term Bill of Rights" was never intended to be the title of the first ten Amendments. tttttttt them arc bringing pressure on the According to governments. intelligence reports on tile at the State Department, Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, the Arab rulers have repeatedly warned that if the United States does not curtail its military aid to Israel, they will take retaliatory action. .Mr. Nixon has entrusted Kissinger with the diplomacy, defense and national security of the nation, and now Kissinger also assumes economic power in formulating strategy on the national policy. petroleum in the Pentagon, State Nobody or the Intelligence Department agencies believes that Kissinger in trying to will be cope with the Mideast crisis, as his predecessor, William P. Roger officially tried to he. Kissinger is a dedicated Zionist and will not hesitate to subordinate American interests to the interests of World Zionism, which is a euphemism for . even-hand- Jewish rights we already had, before any Constitutions or laws were ever drawn up.- It does not grant, list or describe our rights. If it did, our rights w'ould be limited io those grante, listed or described. Moreover, any tyrant who wished could deny us any "right not so granted, listed or described. He could dash away any or all of those listed any time it would serve him. We would be completely at his - mercy. Thank God, our Constitution does not work that way. Instead, it grants, describes, limits, defines the circumscribes and of the Constitutional Rights Federal Government. 51 Federalist and example.) (See 83, for : was outraged a few months ago to read of some people who were 1 actually talking of waiving their Constitutional rights. Horrors! Can American people actually be into maneuvered such a recantation? We cannot give away our rights, even if we should decide to try it. Persons may waive" their freedom to practice their rights, but will they please include me out. The word right" and its American partner inalienable will be the subjects of our next the discussion, followed by distinction between rights" and privileges, all terms which must be thoroughly understood in order, to the interpret correctly Constitution. point or stipulation'. condition agreed upon as in a contract. to deprive of (2) abridge: (rights, privileges, etc.) a prior or (3) prerogative: exclusive right or privilege. (4) See the Preamble to the First Ten Amendments, if you can find (1) it. Trapped! Residents of Placerville, California, recently asked local police officers to crack down on speeding high school students. The officers considered the complaint a serious one and set up a 'two-da- y speed check for two in roads the area of the high school. When the report was turned in it cited twenty-tw- o adults, several including teachers, and seven students. -- M.P.W. - The Review Of The News ed world Too bad we have forgotten that the difference between control government and freedom is plenty. -- J. Kesner Kahn t domination, according to Saul E. Joftcs, former Secretary-Generof the Bnai B'rith International Council and llaviv Sheiber, Israeli defector w ho played a prominent role in the Palestinian war of 1948. al The Constitution of the United States was drawn up to protect the The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
