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Regards,MLK
Your article 'IS THERE A THIRD OPTION ?' immediately caught my attention as I have advocated the following on the Independent 'have your say ' column for months past :-
1. America should involve more Moslem countries in the 'Peace' keeping forcesi Pakistan being part of the British Commonwealth with it's officers trained at Sandhurst has a good rapport with the British army. That country could send a contingent of troops, I suggest Sikhs to patrol alongside the British who over a period of time are withdrawn to be replaced by other non-aligned UN troops.
I read your article published in the Tehran Times. I just wanted to let you know how idiotic and illogical your article was. I guess the "Tehran Times" was the only one that would publish such garbage, whatever the "Tehran Times" is. I guess that is also why you are a professor at a community college, not a university. I hope that all of the GED students are getting there money's worth of $100 per unit by sitting through your class.
Yours truly,
George
Not that the music of Country Joe and the Fish ever really disappeared. Since the release of the band’s first two albums in 1967 -- “Electric Music for the Mind and Body” along with “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die” -- many of its songs have meandered through the memories and semi-consciousness of millions of Americans who came of age a third of a century ago.
Now reconstituted with four of the legendary group’s original five members, the new Country Joe Band has just begun to tour. When I saw them perform, midway through April, the music was as tightly effusive as ever, with poetic lyrics mostly brought to bear on two perennials: love and death.
Bob Woodward is being praised by the talking heads (a naval term) as "likely the greatest reporter of this century", "the man who can really get the news stories no one else can" and other similar accolades. Is the purpose of a Bob Woodward to be the insiders ultimate hatchet man? Is it his job to destroy one of their own who has stepped out of line or has been used about as much as he/she can be used and therefore needs to be replaced with the next step towards a "New" World "Order".? ("New" - There is nothing new about this, it is as old as Babylon. "Order" since when is chaos order)
"When, in countries that are called civilized, we see age going to the work-house, and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government. . . . Civil government does not consist in executions. . . . Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?"
These are the words of Thomas Paine, the greatest pamphleteer in the history of the English language.
Bob Fitrakis writes in the tradition of Paine. Free Byrd consists of articles originally published in Columbus Alive and the Columbus Free Press during the decade 1992-2002. The articles set forth specifics about several related subjects, including a number of capital cases, and the death in Franklin County jail of Michael Hiles. The two themes most thoroughly explored in these articles are, first, the unjust trial, sentencing, and execution of John Byrd; and second, the inadequacy of the Office of the Ohio Public Defender in representing Byrd and other capital defendants.
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