| On Par with Augusta I'm sick and tired of being bullied around under the guise of political correctness. The latest kick to the groin comes courtesy of some rebel rouser named Dr. Burke, who is trying to force Augusta National Golf Course into admitting women members. Ms. Burke somehow feels it is her business to control the wills and rights of another business. Who made her the moral majority? Do women actually sit up at night crying because they know they won’t become members of the prestigious golf course? Isn’t there anything better for this woman to do with her time? How much grandstanding should one be forced to hear before the old food at the depths of my refrigerator is launched at her? The golf course can do as they please and not grant membership to women. Another course could have a policy of not admitting men as members and I could care less. Why such a big deal? I say good for you Augusta! Not everything in this world has to be available to everyone on the planet. That’s what makes things different. Don’t be bullied by female rights groups or hamster rights groups or anyone. Do what you want if it works for you and doesn’t break the law, that’s America! ~ Dillon Payne- Cherry Hill Don't Attack Iraq President Bush had himself a nice little run after our 911 disasters. The world looked to him for answers on how to respond, and his response the pefrect remedy. Unfortunately though, it seems as if he is taking things too far now, with his hell bent attitude towards a war with Iraq. An attack on Iraq would be a huge mistake for many reasons, some of which are: 1. It will alienate the US with the rest of the world, who do not favor any further aggression from any people in that region. 2. It would put an already heated Israeli/Palestine situation ever closer to the actual fire. 3. We would spend billions on weaponry in creating $135.00 in collateral damage. 4. How certain are we that Iraq without Sadam would be less of a threat to them or us? We are not certain at all, and countries in that part of the world are very concerned of such. 5. We offer no solid proof (that even we agree with each other on) that Iraq is doing what we say they are doing. Iraq has done nothing to provoke any attack. 6. Why did we go to Kuwait’s rescue in the first place? Were we attacked by Iraq then in any sort of way? 7. Why give the Islamic Extremists any amunition in their declaration that we are the evil ones? Let’s not make this an us against them battle (Arabs vs. The West), which it may surely become. Lets face it, President Bush is still pretty damn pissed off at Sadam and feels he can use 911 as his ticket to finally kick some ass. I say good idea, but wrong reason to do so. Until we get a real reason, let’s not topple the applecart. If that reason appears, then I say let’s go after Sadam and bring hell with us! ~John Young- Jackson, NJ Just Americans, Please A few months ago a statue honoring the firefighters at the World Trade Center was being contemplated. The model for the monument was from an actual picture taken of three men holding up an American flag. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but there was a problem. There weren’t any minorities in the proposed statue. Should a minority have been substituted in the statue to reflect the loss and efforts of all races in the travesty? Or, should the monument reflect the photograph verbatim, as it really happend? To be honest, the three firefighters were so covered in soot and ash that I initially didn’t know what nationality or race they were. To me, they were just three Americans doing their part in the time of a horrible national tragedy. The statement to be made wasn’t about making sure everyone was represented. Because of this conflict of interests, no statue was errected. Yesterday I read an AP article that African Americans were feeling slighted by the coverage of the Trade Center disaster, in how their grief and efforts weren’t being addressed. Until then, I hadn’t really noticed the racial breakdown of coverage since last September. I didn’t know that a specific breakdown of the heroes and victims was necessary. I didn’t realize a scorecard was being kept. I thought we were all just Americans. News stations used to report “A bank was robbed on Main Street today, two black males were reported fleeing after the robbery”. Minority groups felt the racial breakdown wasn’t necessary to that or any story, and that it was demeaning. The reporting policies today of many news agencies favors a more generic bias, because of the above concerns. Why then, is a scorecard needed in the WTC stories? Why, for once and for all can’t we just be counted as Americans, as people? Does everything have to serve as someone’s platform? ~Laurie Schooley- West Chester, PA |
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