Show M©m Friday August 30 2002 A4 The Herald Journal Our view If rocks could talk each time he put them up what started as a simple heartfelt project evolved into an obsession of sorts a quest a war At first the monument builder thought his towers were being toppled mostly by kids and ATV riders in the canyon However this theory collapsed after the canyon road was redeveloped into a hiking trail and closed to motorized vehicles last summer These days the only people who make their way far enough up the canyon to sec his handiwork are serious hikers and a few mountain bikers So now our monument builder has come to imagine his foes as nature lovers — or even a single nature lover — repulsed by the structures in the sight of national forest As determined as he is to keep the rocks piled up they appear determined to knock them down May we suggest it is time to clear the air If the Dry Canyon is reading this article please consider contacting the newspaper to share with readers your side of the stray You can remain anonymous just like your accuser A round every comer in Cache Valley it seems there is a story waiting to he told Like on the trail going up Dry Canyon east of Logan where around any bend on a given day hikers might encounter one or more makeshift rock monuments like the ones pictured below Some of those hikers don't just pass by they Imock the monuments down But in a week or two or perhaps a month the structures inevitably reappear The cycle has been going on now for several years So what’s the story? Well it so happens a Herald Journal employee knows the person who erects the Dry Canyon monuments Although this man does not want his name in the newspaper he has confided that the original purpose of his rock creations was to memorialize a close friend who died But when it became apparent that the memorials were going to be quickly and callously eliminated man-ma- de Weapons of Mass Distraction Soapbox Just say no to war with Iraq By Your view Cover up skin magazines lib the editor: Have you ever walked into a gro- jeery store or run into a gas station quickly to pay for your gas and were befronted with some image that took a part of your irtnocence away Let me make this more clear I'm sure ! you have all experienced waiting in jline to pay for something and hod no 'direction in which to lode except at a crude magazine Cover filled with half undressed men and woman It used fto be that any magazines that showed too much skin were covered by a protective magazine slot and were only sold behind the counters of gas: stations 'First of all the innocence of our children as well as our own is being jeopardized by having these uncovered magazines displayed to the pub- lie Today’s children can walk into ! just about any grocery store to buy innocent activity candy a fiin-filland come out having seen promiscuous and demoralizing magazines : ed (poroographic-lik- e their immediate eye-sigh- magazine at As the t) is foe day we have failed collectively as a nation” Ritter argues that Iraq never expelled UN weapons inspectors and that the weapons of mass destruction had already been destroyed Inspections ended in 1998 when theUS withdrew'inspectors just prior to commencing bombing runs Ritter resigned at that time from his post as chief inspector Other top Republican leaders are publicly questioning a war ’ Brent Scowcroft the former National Security Advisor says a US invasion of Iraq “could turn the whole region into a cauldron and thus destroy die war on terrorism” There is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations raid even less to the Sept 1 1 attacks Senator Chuck Hagel says the CIA has absolutely no evidence that i or will soon nutrition Two Seattle residents were fined $10000 and threatened with prison terms for transporting medical supplies to help Iraq’s children in 1997 Citing the UN Subcommission on Human Rights that foe US led sanctions are “unequivocally illegal under existing international humanitarian law and human rights law (we) are morally and legally obligated not to obey US laws that violate international law” They are appealing the penalties in US courts This statement by Martin Luther King is perhaps closest to the truth and what is morally right “Darkness ' cannot drive out darkness only light can do that Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that The chain reaction of evil-ha- te begetting hate wars producing more wars must be broken or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation” Presently over 65000 individuals Henry Kissinger says “The and over 100 heads of state from notion of justified runs around the globe are meeting at the counter to modem international law World Summit for Sustainable which sanctions foe use Of force in Development in Johannesburg South se only against actual “not Africa in an attempt to find solupotential” threats American militions to many of the world’s prob- intervention in tary Iraq would be lems through addressing Social and at if ril supported only grudgingly environmental issues The US and by most European allies" other rich and powerful countries are Dick Armey foe House majority attempting to block any meaningful leader says “I don’t believe that ' America will justifiably make an changes in current policy that would mean a more equal distribution of the unprovoked attack on another nation Earth’s resources Never has there It would not be consistent with what been a larger gap between the rich we have been as a nation or what we and poor which is constantly widenshould be as a nation” Another highly questionable US ing leading to more unrest thus the economic sanction is policy greater threat to national security This has Is it time for the richest and most to be an Iraq against proven ineffective strategy against Saddam powerful country in human history to who after 11 years of sanctions com replace its aggressive militaristic tinues as Iraq’s popular leader But paradigm with one of peace and what this policy has done coupled love? Fra our children and our with destruction of Iraq’s water grandchildren I firmly hope so delivery Systran during Desert Storm has cost over a half million lives of Jack Greene la a sdenca teacher at Iraq’s children under the age of five Logan High School Ha lives In Smith-- ' due to water-born- e diseases and mal i' field” A : - Jack Greene old proverb says “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it” Do m we want our children to be “trained up” to look at promiscuous pictures and to think that that is OK? Having uncovered magazine slots is definitely “train in g our children to think that it’s OK to be and to look promiscuous I like tb give credit to “Mr Macey” As I walked into his store I noticed all of his magazines were covered by protective slots As a community we need to support businesses like these who concern them-- : ‘ selves in the upstanding “training” of our children as well as preserving a clean visual environment fra us adults As a community let us preserve thisright to innocence Let us write to and talk with our local businesses about covering up the magazine slots Good business replies to a consumer market’s demands And to the businesses of Cache Valley please help us preserve innocence by taking the incentive to follow Mr Macey 's way and cover up the magazines Jeremy Threlfifll ian Vietnam war in the making? An unpopular war that could drag on fra years cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives? Is this what our national leaders are attempting to drag us into? Anyone in touch with recent news reports is well aware of the bellicose unilateral attitude of die current administration Attempting to justify this new war in foe name of national security and destroying the “axis of evil” they are distancing them- selves from many of their allies In addition our fra-eign policy contin- jack ues to place us Greene firmly in the midst of the Middle East hornets’ nest to insure we have access to their oil while refusing to advance domestic policy on energy efficiency and alternative energyopportunities which could raid the need fra dependency on Middle East oil entirely and thus remove a major threat of terrorism Is Iraq really a threat to oiir national security? Not according to many present and former US military advisors Scott Ritter former Chief of United Nations weapons it tors in Iraq for seven years a 1 Marine Craps veteran and a Republican says “There is nothing in national security intranational law or baric morality to justify this coming war with Iraq Ibis is not about the security of the US This is about domestic American politics The national security of the US has been hijacked by a handful of who are using thrar position of authority to pursue their own ideologically driven political ambitions The day we go to war for that reason on self-defen- ' Lawmakers LQflAH MUHttlPAL CQUHCt ' Thomas Karr 35 N 1400 East Logan 84321752-315- 2 Manured 1535 84341753-822- 4 ' E 1500 North Logan 84321 753-601- east district — 3475 S 250 West Logan CACHE COUNTY COUNCIL Darrel Lea Gibbons —representing the north district — 840 S 1600 West Lew 8 Ion 84320 I syne nsrtr mprnnontinn thn northeast district— 628 E 380 Sogth Smtthflaid 84321 ’ dto-tri- ct 752-902- dtetrict— 252 EMain Hyrum 84319 245-858- J Wet No Larry Anhder —representing the aouth- - 84341 7523878 4 t In - ' t ''i: 7 O SfeS Herald Journal ThafVkihhhans Logan E 1220 North Logan 3--1440 ' J ' 843217533109 Craig Petersen 4 v 52-13- “ 7 Kathy Robison— representing Logan dto trict No 2— 335 N 400 WestTLogan 843355633229 John A Hansen— representing the south 9 Karen Borg 1670 N 1600 East Logarv 64341 75M963 ' Tsnii South PI 84321' Pyfer 753-510- 4 CotyVeatee —representing Ldgan No 1— 281 8 100 EaaL Logan 84321 258-523- Stave Thompson 37 fc 200 Wsat Logan 753-7- 9 Mallard Fillmore v 1ST 3 Mars to Vie’ or offensive jettere-''- ’ IsdkyFHSandslyfceloue and too edtor rsssnns too right to adff al Mere to conkjmi ' 1 A: ""rry"1' Letters should be: olpubfc Importance and crowds mambaiact jha community wtthufanan tor thajr stoat Personal columns cartoons and letters tram readme reflect the opinion olttwir writes and 5l ' M i Typewritten and doghto spaced No more Ian 460 words in tongtti MdandMudedayttrnephone lSpuipomolvedlcaBon 'Sueoi ini Doniu Manners or me eononw Doers r: DARRELL EHRLOOtityadttoi' ’ CMDYYURTHflsaftaaeadttor '' : BRUCE SMTHtauMeher v V CHARLE8 MoCXXUMInanaging edttor ' Vjgit amdusiens vernon Sty tokjaMout of a gg i I ' WMtfcietoarejhittedtoonepublshedlel' T"hlnany30lay period Address NktterOblnewsjom Qualcom-- ! - JtufrLtHtJbj£U72-i9Gl- ) 7-- |