European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday May 12, 1992 thes european edition col Gene e. Townsend Usan con manner Pum Shef Bernard a. Zgol Stockt editor news and editorial Bill Welker european editor Deport i better Navra editor Bob Wicker sports editor Bryan Nolan City editor Ganoro Amanda special sections editor to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211 or Postrach 11 14 37 6100 Darmstadt 11, Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or ets 34b-8 plus Extension As follows news ext. 237, 255, 2b2, 226, 326. Sports ext. 225, 269, 263, 332, 321, 221. Features ext. 230, 245,341. Letters to editor ext. 208. Education Jimi Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Bremerhaven Germany Ken Clauson building 103, Carl Schurz Cavern Apo a 09069 Telephone ets 342-m59 or civilian 0471-68782. 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The appearance of advertising in this publication including insert or supplements does not constitute endorsement by toe de piment at defense or the stars end stripes of the products or service Ach Ortise. Everything advertised to this publication shall be made available Tor Purchase use or patronage without regard to race color religion sex National Ongen Aga marital status physical Handicap Post thai Saua Tion or any other non men Factor it toe purchaser user or patron.. Isnit All Good alas the time has come. The writer of a no place like Home april 16 will be returning to the land where he a can do just about  Back to the land of watered Down Beer and no cholesterol. To the land where everybody is protesting something. If it is not animal rights Ever had red paint thrown on your wife a fur coat then it is abortion or nuclear Power or the depletion of the Ozone layer. Back to the moral majority no smoking Laws censorship labels on cd and speaking a politically  Back to Book Banning in schools record burning and a edited for  Back to ridiculously slow highways clogged with poor Drivers. Back to drive by shootings and 10-year-old gang members. The writers Pride in our country is admirable done to get me wrong. I just done to think he gave this country a Chance. Had he Learned a Little of the language he would have found that people on the Street do in fact Greet you with a smile. Try that in new York if he had travelled he would have realized that this land has a wealth of culture and history. And yes even the simple things a like having a Beer and a cigarette now and then without being judged a Are important. So go go Back to a recession Ridden trillion Dollar deficit society where there is skyrocketing unemployment no National health plan and a less than adequate education system. Please done to give me the a love it or leave it Quot mentality about America. I am proud to be an american and i am willing to give my life for it. Nevertheless i know and appreciate the fact that it is not the Only game in town. A tech. Sgt. John we bar ecu Briick German Justice system failed i did no to immediately understand All the rioting in los Angeles until i heard the verdict from the Rodney King trial. This not guilty verdict sends a direct Csage to All . Citizens implying racism is All right. I say this because All of the 12 jurors were non Black. By some biased process of elimination All of the Black jurors were dismissed supposedly because the officials Felt Black jurors  be fair in deciding the verdict against four White defendants. Well what about Rodney Kings rights who represented him after All the Black jurors were gone the answer is nobody because he is Black. The Media state that the defense used the videotape to their advantage by showing clips of the defendants beating King Only when he was trying to get up because they feared for their lives. This is an outright lie. Any Normal human being can see that while King was on the ground surrounded by those officers there was no Way he could prevail. There is no question that excessive deliberate and unnecessary Force was used. Why did no to the officers subdue King by grabbing him quickly holding him Down and cuffing him. If the four officers were Black and the suspect were White there a no Way the jury would have Given a not guilty verdict. Why did our Justice system fail us so miserably even when there was enough evidence to show that a crime had been committed we still have to give defendants a fair trial. Why is this so the victim has to go through All the pain and humiliation again. If a suspect kills another person and All the evidence shows this Why can to we automatically punish this person instead it takes months and even years to Complete sentencing a sgt. Lillie m. Lewis Schwein flirt Germany editor s note a letters from readers expressing their viewpoints or opinions Are published daily in this space. All letters must be signed. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. Letters should be addressed to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. #00 letters requesting information or assistance Are answered in a feature called readers action line which appears on Page 16 every Day except thursday and sunday. Such letters should be addressed to readers action line the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211.no ones business i am writing to question your decision to print the excerpts of the tape made by the wife of it. Christopher Strain before her death in August last year. The tape was a relevant piece of evidence in it. Strains murder trial and you made reference to its probable role in his acquittal. To print something that private in such detail when it was not actually newsworthy is inexcusable and crosses the line Between the Public a right to know and unnecessary invasion of privacy. That it. Strain was acquitted demonstrates that in the eyes of the Law he should be left alone and allowed to put this whole episode behind him. You have made the private sufferings of a woman a matter of Public record. It is ironic that this comes at a time when there is so much debate in the United states about ethics in journalism and How much of a persons private life should be open to inspection. Granted this was a piece of evidence from a murder trial but the majority of what you printed of the tape was irrelevant to the Case and also was published after he was acquitted so its no ones business but his. A Richard Marsland Darmstadt Germany appallingly in american 1 am appalled that the . Air Force and Many members of the military As a whole would actually Force someone to remove anything that did no to agree with their View of the world. That anyone should be told to remove a bumper sticker that shows his displeasure with the administration is totally in american. We were appalled when chinese students were gunned Down for holding a peaceful rally and asking for reforms. They did no to advocate the governments overthrow. During the cold War we were outraged when soviet scientists were tortured or exiled for questioning letters to the editor their government. In the �?T30s and �?T40s, we went to War against a Man who demanded a nations absolute loyalty i.e., Adolf Hitler and the nazis. Now the governments of Germany and Austria make it a crime to produce and or distribute Neo nazi paraphernalia. However the United states allows such items to be sent through the postal system from the states to Europe because of our freedoms. Yet a . Government worker is deprived of those same rights because he does no to like Bush. Are military personnel going to have to swear to protect George Bush and the Republican party next is this an isolated Case no because i have run into a number of soldiers officers and enlisted who feel that a True american is conservative Republican and protestant. Soldiers did no to die on the Fields of Bunker Hill Gettysburg Flanders or Normandy for Washington Lincoln or Roosevelt. Men did no to fight and die in Iraq and Kuwait for George Bush. They did it for the United states and the principles that it stands for. All colors All religions All genders and those of All political persuasions fought our wars and lost their lives to protect our freedoms. Now someone wants to deprive an american of those rights. When did the United states of America become the Republican states of America and when did George Bush become our Fiihr Ert a Patrick Ludwa Heilbronn Germany Messing up gods plan this is in response to the letter titled a a done to play god april 24. Theresa Campo was not born simply handicapped. She had no brain. Not Only would she never have recognized the people who gave her life she would never have been Able to feel. I refer to a a feel in the emotional sense. She never would have Felt happiness or excitement or even frustration. If you had no emotional capacity would you have a a a life to speak of it is often said that god works in mysterious ways. How do we know that god did no to put Theresa Campo on this Earth so that her organs might save the lives of other children maybe in our efforts to not a play god a we ultimately did by Messing up his plan. A Jennelle mihalovits Naples Italy decision of sacrifice in response to the letter a a done to play god a what qualifies the writer to pass judgment against parents enduring the tragedy of watching their child slowly die these people made a sacrificial decision in the Hope of helping another child live after the Fate of their own was already foregone a a More selfless gesture i cannot imagine. And if the writer thinks the medical establishment or our government would Ever allow organs to be taken from a potentially living person she has seen too Many movies. I Pray to god the writer is never placed in a similar circumstance. How can she dare criticize another parents decision until she a endured the anguish of seeing her own child a life slip away. I know because i have. I would have rejoiced if her Short life could have benefited someone besides the funeral director. A sgt. 1st class Daniel j. Purdin Wurzburg Germany