European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes thursday july 17,1986 columns nobody wants to be responsible by Andy Rodney a woman in Oklahoma City recently sued a tobacco company far $147 million because her Ion died or cancer of the Mouth after tiling the company s snuff Tor six years. Snuff is the tobacco you put Between your lip and your gum and Ion or suck on. It is pretty disgusting and a huge source of profit Tor the people who make it. Apparently a lol of kids who have Jeen athletes using it in commercials Are using in. The dead boy s Mother lost her suit and was seen on television leaving the courtroom in tears. If he woman was in lean Over the death of her  m sympathetic. If she was in lean about losing $147 million am not. Everything is someone else s fault these Days if you re poor or live in inadequate housing it s the government s fault or society s fault or the fault of the school that failed to give you a proper education. It s never even a Little bit your own fault. The other Day i was walking in a poor area of new York and i heard a woman scream at a misbehaving child you Gonna cause me to Hurt  the phrasing sounded funny at first because i seemed apparent that she liked the child and was Only temporarily exasperated then it struck me that this woman had even ducked taking responsibility Tor disciplining her child. Does the woman whose Ion died of cancer think then any Chance he was somewhat at fault himself does she think he might be just a Little culpable i guess she does t. I m disgusted with tobacco companies and especially with their advertising but an individual still to control Over his or her own actions and ought to be held accountable for them. 4 Liberal democrats and others in this country Are nervous about what president Reagan did with the supreme court recently. He appointed the most right Wing conservative William Rehnquist to be chief jus Tice in place of the retiring Warren Burger and he appointed a very conservative judge Antonin Scalia to the vacancy. I be Seldom agreed with one of judge Rehnquist s decisions and i be read about several that Scalia has made that i Don t agree with but still neither Man scares me for one simple reason they re both smart. Thai s All i ask of a supreme court judge or my doctor that he be smarter than i am. The new York times just announced that it will begin using the title  in front of a wide variety of women s names most often when it does t know the woman s marital statin. I be fought off using  because in sound silly u me. There s growing evidence that i m wrong and i la probably give in. One of the troubles with Misi mrs. And my. Is that they have Uncertain backgrounds. I m not even sure there should be a period after is because it in t an abbreviation of anything i know about. The times is going to continue to run into trouble because a Tot of women Don t want to be called is. Period. Cd to atm Midi sort toss and Here s to anyone he forgot by Russell Baker Here s to every immigrant and immigrant offspring who did t measure up. To those who did t become presidents governors tycoons fathers of new weapons judges or Stan of stage screen radio television video or As told to books on the Best seller lists. To those who thought Liberty absurd and those who despised the idea of Equality and those whose dream was a dream of greed that brought them Here to get Rich and go Back to the old country where stay at Home peasants would have to lick their boots. Here s to the pickpockets Loo and burglar thieves and killers to All those exported in european chains who regarded the new world Ai a prison. Here s to the traitors like Tom Paine who fled England to avoid being hanged for Bis Radical politics. Lucky Liming made Paine s radicalism  immigrants were not so Lucky so Here s to Sacon and Here t to Vanzetti doomed for their anarchism by a hanging judge and a hanging governor and a whole nation in a hanging mood. Here s to All hanging judges and to All hanging governors and to the supreme court justices who Nave the Power to indulge the whole nation in its hanging moods. All Are immigrants heirs. Here i to All the troublemakers to the Union organizers who made life hard for the sweatshop profiteers who preferred to be just Plain hard work Hig businessmen to the hard working businessmen too and to their goons who clubbed the skulls of the immigrant working stiffs. Here s to the Bankers including embezzler and Heaten of widows and orphans. Here i id widows and orphans including widows and orphans who Are landlords cruel to their tenants especially in Winter when they go to Jamaica to escape hard Luck tales of icicles on the Radiator. Here s to the gangsters created by prohibition and Here to the Bank Robbeis created by the depression Here s to the pistol Eros created by the National craving for drugs and Here s to the Kii Kluvers created by ignorance. You say you would t want your Lister to marry a immigrant that s neither Here nor then. The Point is that without them America would t be the same and it s unfair to ignore All the results of immigration except its big shots. An America without rogues felons psychopaths bigots swindlers liars cheats brutes frauds crooked politicians and corrupt cops would have a adapted of terminal Labb Inest shortly after the first few boatloads of immigrant arrived. To retain their muscularity people committed to Liberty require constant Challenge from people who Don t know the difference Between Liberty Ana making a mess. It if Only fitting then to Salute toe men Mak ers for they far outnumber the glittering Tuc Estes who resulted from immigration. For every Lee Iacocca there an thousands of Immi Grant or bearers of immigrant heritage on the production line putting the wrong Bolt in the car. For Ever mayor de Koch there Are thousand of government workers the bureaucratic result of immigration. So Here s to everybody the $5,000-per-head crowd does t want to think about when they think about the meaning of immigration. Here1 to the wife beaters and Here s to the car thieves. Hen s to the people who cancel your insurance Here s to the Guy who steals your television set Here s to everybody with enough Money to buy congressmen and Here s to congressmen who rather wish they did t have to jump at their buyers commands and if pressed on the subject say let s be  Here s to the losers the failures the rats the Finks the louts the finagle the boors the chisel in. We have immigration to thank for them All. What woul America be without them  a Avn-1bwu5hms to Bojoh Uscow Typo to mkt Mata Saitas Ataa Irmam. 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