| Show y '' f ' conclusion an won likely to Be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of “Right muututimuvu MWmVh — Judge lamri IM X—ticw utM (1I7MM1) Saturday May 6 2000 The Herald Journal Logan Utah e I pd8 C Our view li i d Id indecipherable to admittedly it's not the free-- speech platfonn Utah’s newspapers would have chosen But the decision of several newspapers to defy the state’s ban on alcohol advertising does at least focus attention on a law that even the Salt Lake County little-know- n district attorney thinks is unconstitutional n When Cup dis- ! - h punishable by six months in jail or a $5000 fine Those who were around then may remember the creative ways conve- nience stores and drinking establishments got around it — for example turning off one of the ' neon letters in a “BEER” sign or posting signs that read innocently enough “Cold beverages” One Salt Herald Journal editorial board which by no means views itself as the last word on matters of public interest If you disagree please feel free to respond with a letter to the editor or contact editor Charles McCollum about a possible guest commentary Ext 3020 (Phone: 752-212-1 See InformacmccollumOhjnewscom) tion box at bottom of page for more details v post- - jla' is is an open letter to senators and congressmen I found it frightening that the presi- dent of our county and the attorney general have assumed the power to authorize the killing of an innocent mother and her son (Ruby Ridge) the murder of innocent men women and children in Waco and now the brutal abduction of Elian Gonzalez from a place far safer than where he now is tttll What will they be allowed to do next? Will it end when we become another Cuba? You as our elected representatives are the only ones who can put a stop to this insane immoral unconstitutional abuse of power! You and most Americans should know that parents have no rights in Cuba The Cuban constitution and penal code make children property of the communist state with penalties (for parents or anyone else) for interfering with the development of the child's “communist personality” If Fidel Castro was truly concerned about reuniting parent and child why doesn't he release the thousands of' family members -- spouses parents children grandparents — he is holding hostage who have been petition- ing to leave Cuba for years? As a Christian and because of his unprecedented international celebrity Elian will be especially marked for persecution and brainwashing in Castro’s militant atheist state Cuban expatriate Juan Ramon Garcia stated: “Elian will have no life in Cuba no parents The government takes control of the children what they eat and read There’s hard labor at the age of 10 There are no rights When they allow you to live they consider it a favor They own you” Americans who favored Elian’s return to his father should ask themselves “If it is so wonderful in Cuba lhcn why have thousands risked their 'lives and so many lost their lives Mallard Flllmoro : fleeing that communist land including Elian’s own mother?" It Ts your responsibility to do all within your power to reyerse this horrific travesty! Tri foe tha Ilian is never returned to Cuba but reunited with the relatives in Miami who were caring for him Even now he is in harm's way (and most likely if the father were really free to speak he would want to stay here with his son) Does not the inscription on the Statue of Liberty apply here since his mother’s dying wish was that she “yearned for her son to be freer If this little boy is not freed this nation shall hang her head in shame Dr Miquel Faria said it so well: “What I can't understand is why so many people think the humane thing to do would be to send that youngster back to a prison society His mother and stepfather literally gave their lives to save Elian from a life of slavery It would be a staggering obscenity to send him back" 7 7 Margaret Townsend Logan Sad newspaper caved to pressure a I il: no doubt - - 7 : To the editor: How sad I thought that The Herald Cold War America is the only a long front-pa- story ge in the New York Times says that Europeans hot only don’t like us church but I thought wrong The old saying of “Welcome to Utah set your clock back 50 years” is still the case Another old saying I think is true for the politicians church guru's and cops “If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen” I guess now my home newspaper will have to be the Rocky Mountain News out of Denver because they still have the guts to hang in there when the going gets tough In closing I say: Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the realm of the Politburo KGB and the Stone - Otto Gardner Logan remaining super power far too super powerful and set upon ruling the world by imposing its crass values upon it Purportedly these feelings come not just from the usual snotty elites but from the vast European public Polls are cited showing that only 30 : percent of the French think there is ''“anything to admire” in America that 68 percent are “worried” about America’s status as a super power and that 63 percent “did not feel close to the American people” Polls in other European nations are said to show similar tendencies with somewhat smaller numbers (The surveys sound fishy as will be noted) There are some very interesting aspects to this Many maybe most of v the negatives clearly echo complaints made by Americans in America Many Americans — right left and think American society is center too materialistic (I am not of their Americans they don’t like us more than they used to not like us Should we change our ways? As is common in these matters the most intense pain is felt in France a nation once regarded as important Its bookstores are full of 7 titles like “No Thanks Uncle fi an Sam” American Totalitarianism” “The World is Not Merchandise” and “Who Is Killing France? The American Strategy” (If France is road kill at least it's going down in a blaze of good titles) The current litany has lots of golden oldies and a few newbies The Times story says that the French and Europeans generally think that Americans turn away poor people when they need medical care that we have too many guns and use them that we are racists that we are laws enforced by ruled by profit-firbrutal policemen that we don't know anything about Europe and don’t care to that wf corrupt European youth anti-Americ- an st with our movies television and music and alors that we still use die barbarian death penalty against people who kill other people (hence the American word “guilkxine") Of newer vintage Americans are said to force-fee- d Europeans with genetically modified hamburgers that we use our electronic surveillance systems to spy on European industries for competitive advantage and that smart young Europeans are headed for Silicon Valley and other hot tech spots in America creating a Journal was one newspaper that would not cave into the pressures of “European Brain Drain" Most the politicians and the Mormon Age 7 v! important is that since the end of the By Ben Wattenberq 7 Lawmakers need to keep Elian here : I 7 I 'l-- ‘r 1 j Europeans choose like we do Editorials in this space are the opinion of the Your viow ' J I £ beverages ! -- f effect in 1985 It made it a class--b misdemeanor to advertise alcoholic lOivw SI ' t ' ' ‘hasn’t stopped one single person from drinking alcohol went into fci Vi 4 free-spee- ch who moved here from Mori- tana was unaware he was breaking the law by running the ad) The odd law which we assume — T u '£ would be nice if we had some loftiissue to defend but er the First Amendment covers even ads for products some find objec:' :" tionable' er Lake watering hole reportedly d i challenged in federal court It campaign last month the Salt Lake Tribune Ogden Standard-Examin- ed a cryptic message P know it’s available We applaud Utah's newspapers for defying this pointless puritanical rule which is even now being Brown-Forma- : hi : tillers of Canadian Mist whisky placed an ad as part of a national Provo Daily Herald and The Herald Journal chose to run it v (Herald Journal Publisher Bruce-Smit- U that out-of-stat- read something like: “Spirits and ghosts reside here” While few would argue that drinking alcohol is a good thing to promote it is a legal product and the people who make it have a tight to advertise it On the other side of the coin adults who choose to consume the product have a right to ‘ : ing classics When asked they may well say they are “worried” about America’s role but kbet the pollster didn’t ask whether they liked it better when there was a second super power the' Soviet Union super-pow- er businessmen aping it now wjth a vengeance? I suspect Europeans munching their Big Macs are much less concerned about America the Bulldozer than are die chatter- rank-and-fi-le on rate required to “replace” a society over time (21 children are needed) Under current UN projections vj 7 ?$ 7 nt to emulate unsupportable European social policies? Perhaps it’s they who ought to be looking this way The European governments could try to reverse the allegedly dreaded “Americanization” but not without limiting liberty Tb their credit these are hot governments that can tell their people what to read hear watch or Tb the credit of their people they want the liberty to pick and choose from the global culture Just as we do Ben Wattonberg a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute is the author of “Values Matter Most" and is the host of the weekly public television program Think Tank” You may send comments to him via ‘Love Bug’ virus senseless malice w virus reportedly hit 270000 computers proving that the high-tec- h age vandalism has made mammoth-scal- e a new reality : hoever wrote “1 LOVE YOU” on the subject line of messages this past Thursday obvious- ly didn't love computer users very much When attached messages were opened up they did extensive damage ruining all sorts of files The 'e-m- ail The temptation of course is to joke about it — and there will be endless jokes no doubt — but there was senseless malice in this act along with a demonstration that the computer technology that is improv- - The ing business efficiency and daily life in so many ways does indeed have the capacity to trick us and hurt us It will be necessary to find safeguards against this sort of thing and the safeguards themselves may in some ways be limiting Technology can solve all kinds of problems but it unfortunately cannot make human beings decent ' WtterSTpoli Herald Journal l Editorial policy Thu Opinion pago to Intondad to acquaint raadara wito a variety of vtowpoMs on mutton ov piroc vnpomnot ino proviov iiriimii iha community with a tonxn tor thalrvtom Panonalcolumna cartoons and tottam from madam mflscttoaoplniont of toair writers and creators EdNoriato under Vie hearing Mur 'represent too viewed too Herwd Journal too adhrttol board: adNotWbowdl Mombars n d NICOLE FARRELUdtyodtar CMDY YURTHrteaturaa edbor BRUCE SMmVpuWtaher CHARLES MoCOUJUMAnanatfng odtor j Europe is destined to lose 100 million to 150 million people in the next half Other vlows Scripps Howard News Service i Mood-soake- below-replaceme- best-selli- ng A West There is also arrogance and sad- ness Imagine: Europeans now going through an spasm d with a genocidal 20th- -' century history on their hands complaining about racism in pluralist America! A decent moratorium on such criticism should last at least a century j N Europe revered ancestor of West-- ! em culture is fading from the global center stage The European Total Fer- - " 'Z number although I surely believe 'century- - k3" that the best things in life are not Aging ' v welfare-stat- e societies things) Lots of Americans think we’re too are in for a rocky ride Who's sup- involved in the affairs of other court- - posed to pay the freight for the eldertries Lots of Americans believe that ly? Why should America be egged on our entertainment culture has gone over the edge And of course Americans just like Europeans mostly like American movies And there are some mysteries If Europeans don’t like us why do so many of their best and brightest want to come here? If they don’t like us why do they like American music movies and television more than their own? (More than half rtf die novels in France are translations of American books!) 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