European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12letters to the editor wednesday january 18,1995 the so la foes european edition Cal Steven s. Hoffman Usan a. Cornn Gondar Publ Sfier Bernard a. Zovistosk1 a a. Editor a a news and editorial Deborah Abs her news editor Quot. Bill Walker european editor Bob Wicker a sports editor George Manet a City editor to write us unit 29480 Apoate 09211 or Post Tach 11 14 37 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Eleax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or Dan 348-8 plus Extension As Fallows a news ext. 237, 255,202.226, 326. Sports ext. 225, 269. 263, 332,321, 221, features ext. 230, 245, 341. Letters to editor ext. 208. 400, business news ext 326, news bureaus Heidelberg Germany Effie Bathen room 117, or amp Marstr. 104, 69115 Heidelberg Oto phone Dan 370. 7010 or civilian 0622n2342l.tolafax 06221-10s54, Quot. 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The appearance of advertising in Shis pub Calion including inserts or supplements does not constitute endorsement by the department of defense or the stars and Snipes of the products or services advertised. Today s blurred vision every time i begin to think people Are evolving into nicer More tolerant beings i read the letters in the stars and stripes. Some remind me that we have a Long Way to go before we become a More informed a prejudicial society. The writer of a being politically Correct Quot dec. 11 is apparently distraught Over our a socially arid politically Correct  i was glad to read he will discourage his three sons from joining today a military. This will make my daughters military careers much More productive since they wont have to Deal with additional chauvinists. 1 a a a we to the writer of a get a message a Clinton dec. 13have 1 got a message for him. Prayer abortion and. Homosexuality arc private and deeply personal matters. Simply because he does not understand or approve does not give him the right to climb on his moral self righteous High a horse,./. / a a a  a Quot / a 1 would much rather have a homosexual scout Leader for my children than a negative narrow minded prejudiced a a conservative such As the writer. Quit blaming the government divorce homosexuals feminists and a a liberals for the problems in american society. The real Root cause of social breakdown and crime in America is racism sexism homophobia and a thousand other Petty hatreds. This is the real message. Lisa k. Frank Wiesbaden Germany want to present a clique of Bottom feeding lawyers with a weapon As powerful As an amendment. Let us assume that the prayer Amend mint is ratified. The first thing out of the Chute will be a Case instigated by some Bounty Hunting lawyer. A Well heeled school District in a wealthy Section of the country will be slapped with a suit in which a students Quot constitutional rights to Pray in school was denied because there was no properly constructed or easily accessible shinto shrine on Campus. Bingo. An open and shut Case an a million minimum award a and that a before there is any discussion of punitive damages. That is an obvious Case scenario. Just imagine what the really Clever lawyers can conic up with. Entire school districts can and probably will be litigated right out of existence. Of course speaker Newt Gin Rich will Lead the chorus of woe when republicans Sec How their amendment is being abused but by then there will be a fat of he can do about it because of term limits Newt will be Back in Georgia kicking peach seeds Down the Street. / considering the fact that any prayer in school is already voluntary the passage of such an amendment would do More than fix something that ainu to broken it would be dangerous irresponsible and Short sighted. Rather like the whole of the Republican contract with America. A ram it Down the liberals throats is a very poor excuse for introducing any kind of legislation. A Mark l. Williams Hanau Germany in reference to the statements he made after Hunting ducks recently. He stated hat he was Able to Hunt because he was using a gun which was a protected a and the Only guns which had been recently made illegal by his crime Bill were a assault  in Point of fact this newly passed so called crime Bill did not outlaw a single assault gun. It simply made illegal the Sale or whose sole similarity was that they looked Nasty to Clinton and ail of his buddies based upon a philosophy that the Only fun lion of the second amendment of our Constitution is to guarantee the right to possess firearms for sporting purposes Only a and Only if they done to look offensively Nasty. It therein lies his duplicity. He believes he can get away with soothing our fears As he strips us of a right to keep and Bear firc arms while telling us he is actually protect ing this right. The Shotgun he used is no More protected than were the other per a i Egal weapons which he decided we  have. How. Long will it be before he and his crowd Sarah Brady Janet Reno and others decide we  have the Shotgun which he used a / if the criterion to make the Sale Transfer or ultimately the very Possession of a weapon illegal is its Hasty appearance then All of our rights to own any weapons Are in trouble if this is the limit of How deep the analysis is prior to passing legislation. V a a Anina j. Harvey Vilseck Germany a blundering hero yes army helicopter Pilot Bobby Hall got a heroes Welcome after nine Days of Captivity in North Korea but the other shoe has not yet dropped. Flying into restricted airspace losing your aircraft and getting your co Pilot killed in the process amount to pretty serious stuff not to mention causing an International incident. I am sorry to say but Bobby Hall will probably go the same route As Francis Gary Powers cmdr. Lloyd Bucher and cof. Charles Beckwith. It is unfortunate Hall got thrust into the Public Eye this Way and i wish him Luck. / stay tuned to Paul Harvey for the rest of the Story. A v a 7. Josef  Iii Sancho fun Germany mockery of prayer i yield to no one in my utter contempt for president what his name but i find the current vindictive Streak of the gop to be counterproductive. Liberal bashing has suddenly become Quot patriotic a but when examined it tends to look rather idiotic. High on the republicans vindictive Agenda for example is an amendment proposal which would make voluntary school prayer mandatory. This was a senseless bit of Dogma in the �?T70s, and it Hasni to improved with  the Gap stopped to consider the Legal environment of the nation America has produced a highly profitable Suer syst Tom based upon sound Legal arguments but devoid of reason. Who would have anticipated that Mcdonald a would be held financially responsible for the stupidity and clumsiness of its Coffee drinking patrons do the people of the United states really richly misleading the article a Ngop represents More affluent Jan. 4 indicates through the use of averaging and statistics that gop con Gressmen represent wealthier constituents and fewer minorities. It is Well written and no doubt Well researched. Unfortunately it is also distorted and misleading. Why there is not one word about the redistrict ing that recently occurred to group minorities usually less affluent Ana voting overwhelmingly democratic into districts enabling More minority representatives to be elected to Congress if you redistrict a number of areas in the country to ensure that minorities and less affluent people Are represented those areas that Are carved out come from More affluent and usually More conservative districts. Hence the statistics will show exactly what this article portrays. The example that comes to mind is the congressional District in North Carolina established before this election. It tuns for nearly 150 Miles along l40 and looks like a Boa Constrictor that has swallowed several baby pigs. A better More balanced article would address the Impact of redistricting and provide statistics that did not include the districts that were created for minorities As a counterpoint to the statistics already provided in this article. This article by its own glaring omissions displays the Lack of balance and Liberal slant of the journalist. Charles c. Cvrk bubbling in Germany time for self inventory in this world of hate and violence people do things they normally would not do. White against Black Black against White male against female female against male. It should not be like that. If a person docs something to another person the Media should leave out race and gender it creates a Paradox of race is. Race and gender is. Gender and hate is. Hate. We All ask the question about what we can do. For one thing we can do an inventory of our own moral character and self Worth. Show other people around us How we would like to be treated in life by setting the example. Always lift other Peoples spirits. Sgt. Kerry m. Singer Fried Borg Germany c to our readers Clinton s bad aim i have to take Issue with president Clinton a recent disingenuous duplicity i speak let us know you think we encourage our readers a especially those who have never submitted a letter to write to us. Letters expressing readers viewpoints or opinions Are published Dally on this Page. All letters must be signed and include address and Telephone number. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Or fax country code 49 06155601-395, Dan 348-8395. 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