European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april columns James Kilpatrick Ned another rattle brained idea in june president Reagan was in London to address the British Par even the Best of men May come up with bad and on this occasion Reagan came up with a he grandly proposed a new Effort to promote democracy around the out of that twinkle in the presidential Eye was born the National endowment for it is known As Ned for you ought to get acquainted with Over the past 18 months this rat to brained outfit has frittered away million of your by Way of background As Reagan conceived project a new Federal Agency would be created As the legitimate child of the information As things turned a Dummy private corporation was set up this was in november con Gress authorized funding up to Mil lion a year to keep Ned the idea was to encourage free and democratic institutions throughout the world by Pri vate sector this admirable aim was to be accomplished by Grants that would go especially to the two major political labor and Busi Hank did his Best to kill this Bastard child in its he lost but managed to strip the appropriation act of any specific reference to the two major political in the Nebraska de Zorinsky also had a go at political he too by a vote of a lamentable fact is that some usually sound men Cochran and William Safire Tower voted in favor of the presidents thus was born the National endowment for and it is now doing business from a suite of offices Down on 15th what kind of business neds annual report for 198384 recently came to by far the largest for went to the of Lucios free Trade Union the Grant covered a Media outreach Campaign in civic education centers in and a regional conference on democracy and political participation in thanks to the new England Trade unionists were Able to Exchange visits with their Brothers in Central a Grant of million went to the Center for International private enter a Newborn outfit fathered by the chamber of funds went for such vital projects As an examination of constraints to entrepreneurship in Togo and improvement of Media appreciation of the Market process in despite the legislative history of opposition to Grants to the political both the democrats and the republicans created institutes to apply for Grants from each party got million in the democrats spent their Grant in part to bring 35 representatives of foreign political parties to the United where they observed the novem Ber presidential the republicans spent theirs in part on a poll of voter attitudes in other Grants have gone to private a the National Council of negro women got to train women arms control leaders in Swaziland and Lesotho in democratic organization constituency out private sector and making women concerns know to gov through Ned we Are funding sem Inars in workshops in san discussion groups in programs in Portugal and conferences we Are funding junkets for labor leaders and privileged we Are fund ing Nice trips abroad for any old plausible apostles of democracy who can work up an appealing we Are funding none of them of any conceivable real we Are funding intellectual hot tubs in which the masters of Grantsmanship May take their in a time of budgetary when nonessential items Are being pared to the it is incredible that Congress should continue this out with the Zorinsky you and Hank Brown have a Job yet to the Only Way to Stop crime is of uphold the Law Twenty years the most stirring Story about crime and our culture was the murder of Catherine a Young woman whose screams were heard by no fewer than 38 not one of whom wished to become involved by coming to her Aid or even calling the today the crime Story transfixing and troubling the nation is about the menacing of Bernhard Goetz by four Young toughs on a subway and his response to their demand or request for Money by drawing an gun and involving himself in their lives with dumdum knee Jerk conservatives hailed the Goetz response As a courageous and Long overdue act of symbolic of the need for the potential victim to fight criminal fire with especially when the forces of Law in new York City Are Able to put Only one criminal in jail for every 50 crimes patellar reflex slow to react for fear of getting mugged on the Way to the finally found their voices to protest what seems to them the excessive use of Force by a vengeance Bent White against four the police records of these subway swagger ers will be explained As Root caused by poverty and society and the blazing reaction of the gun toting Man they accosted will be held up As the product of the righting Reagan fanatics who oppose gun psych journalists have had a Field Day explaining the pent up outrage of the put upon his appetite for the immediate gratification of vigilante we Are was whetted in recent years by actors Charles Bronson and Clint sociologists and depth pollsters will turn out doctoral theses on the six week 3np th8 and Der mod for b65t Long running part Romance inn goes turn in Public As the original shy hero turns out to be a publicity seeker who reportedly pleaded mental ailments to avoid military and one of the original who had been armed with a May be paralysed for dear newspaper still look pretty Good despite this fusillade of Opin Ion so heres another do As the High minded editorialists Tell suspend judgment about the Issue raised Here until tall the facts Are in at the the objective facts of this particular the racial crosscurrents and the subjective state of Getzs mind will determine one mans innocence or guilt it need not determine what is the Best Way to Stop crime in a the Only Way to Stop crime is to uphold the if you Are carrying a handgun without a License in new York you Are breaking the dont do and dont condone if you Start to make exceptions for people who Are especially you undercut the authority of the we cannot get to the Point where we shake hands and frisk each if you believe that too Many criminals Are getting away with organize an unarmed demonstration against the mayor picket the police commissioners office join a neighbourhood watch form a committee to raise taxes to fight if you Are Riding on the your screwdriver in your do not Indi Cate in any Way to a fellow passenger who is a stranger that you would like some of his not because he May be dirty Harry in but because it is either which is or which is against the if you Are menaced by someone who demands your give it to remembering his face or voice Only if you Are reasonably sure he Means to kill and you happen to be legally should you give it to him in the More vigorous most of us Are not legally nor should we be in those our ant crime responsibility is to be noisy and observant do not subscribe to the permissive in or indulge in the secret pleasure that erases the line Between hoodlums and Vic certainly victims have and All too Many innocent people Are terrified by punks that is More reason for Law and order hardliners to keep the amateurs out of the Job that must be done by become involved with Law enforcement Bear witness but leave the lethal counterforce to the people we authorize to Wear their guns on the the 38 witnesses who shut their ears to a victims screams two decades ago failed As human beings and As citizens the person who pulls a gun and plays at being cop fails at involvements other c 1985 new York times Syndicate the expressed in the columns and cartoons on his Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing those of the stars and stripes or the United states