What questionable military program did both former President Clinton and current resident President W. Bush support wholeheartedly?  The National Missile Defense (NMD) program.   This program is a highly suspicious use of our tax dollars and should be immediately scrapped. The technology will continue to be extremely expensive to produce and may never work, and allegations of scientific dishonesty in this program have been made and merit close examination.  Finally, this project is not worth its social and monetary costs.    Any Republican (or Democrat, even) member of Congress who is actually not a hypocrite should be screaming bloody murder over the taxes being siphoned down the drain by this program.

The recent New York Times article, “M.I.T. Studies Accusations of Lies and Cover-Up of Flaws in Antimissile system, (Jan. 2, 2003)” should not have been unexpected.  For several years, the more liberal press has sent out murmurs warning of fraud in the antimissile program, part of the NMD.  The scientist making the charges noted in the Times, Dr. Theodore Postol, is a tenured professor of security studies at M.I.T.

In the end of the 19th Century  capatin Alfred Dreyfuss, the Jewish Employee of the French General Staff was arrested and accused of espionage and treason. It took twenty years to exonerate him and  restore him in his rights. He owed his life and honor to the International Community and especially to Emile Zola, the French writer, who sparkled the sympathy to Dreyfuss through his pamphlet J'accuse ( I accuse), where he tore to pieces the original government accusations. Now  Emile Zola is buried in the Honorable Patheon of the greatest French People and the portrait of Alfred Dreufus is right on the  wall facing  his tomb.  

   In the Y2003 the Captain of the US Army and Moslem Chaplain  Mr Yee is arrested  and accused of the same thing. His alleged guilt- posession of the secret documents, the list of the detainees' names and the names of the interrogators,  ergo, the names of the  tortured and the names of the torturers.  If this is treason then we all are accomplices of  the crime.  It is well known  all around the world that the concentration camp  on the foreign soil  we have erected and maintained is an abomination.  We made ourselves a disgrace in th eyes of the

Fall is hunting season, and in central Ohio certain manly men are salivating over “controlling the deer population,” i.e., viciously murdering helpless, non-threatening Bambis. Call me a wuss, but hiding in the forest, spying an innocent fawn or buck, using a bullet or arrow to kill it without a fight and bragging later seems unsportsmanlike and cowardly to me. But hey, we live in a country that thought our military bombing Iraq with shock and awe was a “war.”

The only awe I feel is the beauty of the forest and the quiet, gentle creatures who live in harmony within it. If you ask me, it’s the homo sapiens species that needs controlled -- sprawling suburbs, paving concrete and asphalt, clear cutting, polluting, corrupting nature.

I found some interesting arguments against hunting on the Internet (yes, I know how to surf the web, though the hooves are a bit wide for the keys). The following is a good answer to the question:

Doesn’t hunting control wildlife populations that would otherwise get out of hand?

On Aug. 6, Duante Miller, 20, was shot to death by two police officers as he ran from them through a housing project in Columbus Ohio. How has the mainstream media covered it?

Victim Gave Police Reason To Shoot Him,” the Columbus Dispatch boldly proclaimed in a page one Metro section headline Friday, August 29. Reporter Bruce adwallader’s lead reads as follows: “Duante Miller is to blame for his death, a private investigator working with Miller’s family said yesterday.” Cadwallader played up investigator Cornell McCleary’s conclusions in the third paragraph, a single sentence: “Miller was a ‘menace to society and clearly destined for jail or the graveyard,’ McCleary said in his report.”

Cadwallader’s 4th paragraph is key to understanding the Dispatch’s coverage of the Miller affair. It reads in its entirety: “‘The facts suggest that Miller chose to outrun the police but ended up running out of time. His decision to run cost him his life,’ wrote McCleary, who runs PRO-Private Police Agency, a private investigative firm that is not associated with the police division. He is also a local radio talk show host.”

Dear Mr. Wasserman:

 I enjoy reading your articles very much.  I hope you will cover the subject of potential election fraud next year through the use of touch screen voting machines(AKA black box voting) and internet voting, including military internet voting.

  To me, touch screen machines and internet voting are the front and back of the same problem.  Both are controlled by the far right and both are, at present, nonauditable.  Black box voting often overshadows internet voting, but the latter may have the potential for even greater manipulation.

  I think the vast majority of people know nothing about this subject and neither did I until five or six weeks ago.  And I think there would be plenty of outrage if more people knew.  I feel this is a serious issue that needs to be brought into wider public view before the Iowa caucuses.

  FreespeechTV(Dish 9415) is planning to broadcast a lengthy segment on this subject this weekend(Sept. 27, repeated Sept. 28) on INN.  The producers are Lenny Charles and Valerie at (212)905-2837.

                   Sincerely, Gordon Kobayashi