Show Friday April 25 2003 A4 The Herald Journal Our view ewamHHnmc At your own risk without anyone inside them We called the police to pass on clever Herald Journal the complaint and question them reader has come up with an about the practice It turned out alternative design fof the road be a timely phone call to sign that directs motorists to the Police Capt James Geier said Ecclcs Ice Center in North the department just recently Logan took steps to cut back on gasoIf you read this column last line use Conservation measures week you know we were hayinclude doubling up officers in ing a little the same patrol car on some fun at the shifts trying to limit patrol sign's mileage to 50 miles per shift expense and yes encouraging less patrol wondering if' car idling the human Still 'Geier said local resifigure pordents aren't likely to see an all-otrayed there end to the practice was on A car is a police officer’s skates for the Geier pointed out So it “office” first time or what is important to keep the space A couple days later the photoreasonably warm in the winter graph below arrived by and cool in the summer With all It has the same elements as the the special electrical wiring used real thing except the skater has in a customized police cruiser it been turned lengthwise is also a big drain on the battery It's quite an improvement " to restart the vehicle often he don't you think?' said Patrol cars are locked when left The Herald Journal office running while unattended Geier building and the Logan City acknowledged that wouldn’t stop Police Department share the same block of downtown Logan a determined thief from breaking a window and taking a joy ride and a visitor to the newspaper but he added wryly “That probathe other day (Earth Day) pointbly would not be good for the ed out with annoyance that it — especially if it police cars across the street were person doing the canine was unit” left running for minutes on end A ut ail : ' Must we patronize Iraqi people? By Brendan O’Neill For The Christian Science Monitor M in the anti-wlobby claim that tlx: Iraq war was the first stage in America’s Middle East colonialist conspiracy If true then perhaps we’re witnessing a new era of therapeutic colonialism Coalition forces in Iraq often seem more interested in helping Iraqis recover from years of “emotional repression” than in forcing them to submit to their new rulers From the fleeing leaders to the looting masses the people of Iraq and their response to recent events have been discussed in psychological terms And the solution it seems is a form of occupation that allows Iraqis room for while helping to channel their released emotions into forming a new government It appears that coalition forces are executing a kind of “occupational therapy” in Iraq Such is the coalition’s emphasis on that British Iraqi forces in Basra initially encouraged residents to loot The aim according to a senior British officer was to “send a powerful message that the old guard is truly finish!' British officials described the chaos in Basra as “natural exuberance” while one officer professed his joy at watching these “people who have been oppressed” finally getting a chance 'yrm ViX- : -- £V7rr7rt Your view ‘ Snowmobilers rude at meeting ' eilsl'ir: Tinmuhileis at the National fnicsi mcrlmj' 'I uirsday evening d were mile l the l oiesl Service and iik nisi derate of other fieople attending the meeting who Mauled to ask questions about the v pi(iKsed changes m ai al about "me” and “my recreation wants" Mith no eonsidera-- ' lion l(ii die health of the forest Each time Mi Tidw ell tried to respond to a question i concern lie Mas interrupted Wh should the forest Service employee" have to pul up with sue1: discourteous behavior? Why am 1 MiipnsedV Hacl i time I skied in Logan Canyon this Minter I was bued closely at high secd by at lea I one snoMinobiler trying to iniiinidalc me Snowmobilers rou- tiin-ltailgate skiers' vehicles filling the teai vieM mirror with their mas- - T llit- - per-s'itm- to release their “pent-u- p emotions” Even Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld not known for being emosaid the looting tionally switched-o- n natural-emotion- s ken bridges?’ With old rulers suffering from “emotional hijack syndrome” and a population that looks like so much “psychological wreckage” (better 1 suppose than being “collateral damage”) it is not surprising dud Maj Gen Tim Cross the most senior British official involved in rebuilding Iraq claims that the coalition’s main aim is fo boost Iraqi Under the headline “Most important task is rebuilding Iraqi morale” in The Times (London) Major General Cross called on Iraqis to “get them self-estee- m si e rigs selves” After an initial postwar meeting in Nasiriyah Cross and others involved in remaking Iraq issued a plan” for democracy Thirteen-poiplan? Sounds like the famous recovery plan for addiction and “13-poi- nt nt 12-st- ep dependency Hqw long will this psychobabble go on? If Iraqis refuse to accept a continuing US presence will it be a sign of Syndrome? If they decide to build a government that doesn’t fit in with the coalition’s plan will that be evidence of Iraqi Attention Deficit Disorder? Will Iraqis need the helping hand of occupational therapy forever? Whether or not the war was the start of a new colonialism the way in which the Iraqis have been discussed looks as patronizing and insulting as how the old colonialists viewed their third-worl- d charges In the old days imperialists justified their foreign ventures as part of the “White Man’s Burden” where they had a duty to civilize die ignoramuses “over there" Now we seem to have the Psychotherapists’ Burden — where part of the coalition’s role basket is to put the cases on the right track toward responsible adulthood and self-goernment Is that really liberation? Post-Husse- Anti-Americ- an in 13-po- post-Husse- in v- Brendan O'Neill is assistant editor of wwwsplked-onlinsco- m Other views Jean M Lown Logan ' China irresponsible with SARS data the writings on the Herald Journal opinion Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo) page may express views that do not align exactly with your own if ' you disagree pieaq respond with a letter to the editor or contact editor Charles McCollum about a possible guest commentary (Phone: 1 Ext 3020 752-212- Ti " il: See information box at bottom of page for more details o Mr TidM ell Mr Scott Mr official number of cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Beijing turned out to be about nine times the previous stated figure The world was stunned by the new revelation made by the Ministry of Health China’s leaders must know how seriously China’s credibility has been impaired by its efforts to hide information alxftit SARS Governments must pay a high price for concealing information We hope China’s leaden will strive for a more open society drawing a lesson from the experience of the SARS outbreak As leaders of a great power they are responsible to the global community and their efforts to do so will be in China’s own best interests There is so far no cure for SARS Finding ways to treat the disease requires China Where many cases have been reported to report infec Non Seqvitur C"r KXT i QUttHSr NOW INTO BOOK OF V AOC IT W selves into a new mindset” and in true therapy-spea- k said that coalition forces “are not teaching them what to do or how to do it but are enabling them to do the things them- I 1 1 I Cruz and the other Forest Service employees: Keep up the tough job of trying to protect the Wasatch-Cach- e National Forest from the exploding population of motorized users I -encourage you to monitor air and noise pollution as well as other measures of forest health ar was like an emotional outburst As one report summarized: “The way Mr Rumsfeld sees it some lawlessness is understandable among the Iraqi people because he says they have been repressed for so long He says the liberation of those pent-u- p emotions can lead to what he calls an ‘untidy period’” For coalition officials the postwar looting seems akin to primal therapy an outlet for repressed Iraqi feelings Old Baath Party stooges have also come in for a bit of psychological profiling British psychologist Jane Firbank claimed that Iraqi Informa- tion Minister Mohammed Saeed who became a cult figure with his wildly optimistic assessments of the war was suffering from “emotional hijack syndrome” in which were overruled by the Iraqi regime As for the Iraqi people — one report claims that after years of repression their “psychological wreckage could be harder to clean up than the bombed buildings and bro- TUfcX -- The' m TUB'LL IKC TVTLG ML VO HELP mtlR Noftjp PCfcCE Tver hP wucrc -- BKIN& NON Herald Journal WILL I BOOK OF WXJDTWENVTD TWtIR WORD NNP P6lLLU&(Ot Editorial policy )h? 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