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Why
a lawsuit? Because taxes and government should be open to the public
By CAL BEVERLY
Publisher
As reported on this
page, The Citizen has taken legal steps to let the sunshine in on judge-ordered
secret tax talks among the governing bodies in Fayette County.
How
the death toll can be justified
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
Last week I did a little
soul searching vis a vis the horrible death toll of our campaign against
terror in Afghanistan.
What's
cool and what's not
By
BILLY MURPHEY
Laugh Lines
From the first time
the discriminating caveman chose a designer-label "club" for
his woman, man has been preoccupied with cool and uncool. Whether it
is today's status symbol SUVs or yesteryear's Model A Fords with the
moon roof, we always want or do things for no other reason but to impress.
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Hamrick
off base on response to terrorism
You asked for feedback
on your Jan. 9 [column by Dave Hamrick]. Here's mine: what were you
thinking when you wrote this piece? Your opinion is so based on half-truths,
innuendos and just plan factual errors, I hardly know where to begin
my criticism.
We
give anesthesia even to animals; why not unborn babies in abortions?
As a physician,
I am always concerned about the level of pain my patients have. One
group of people who never receive attention to their level of pain are
unborn children.
Any
thoughts on PTC sewer rates?
As much
as you lampooned the defunct Georgia Utilities, are we going to read in
your mouthpiece your critical comments regarding the [Peachtree City Water
and Sewer Authority's] proposed rate increase, by a now not-for-profit
utility, in the support of an overpriced $15 million expansion, including
a $1.2 million "Taj Mahal" office?
Enron
is not the only disaster waiting to happen to Fayette investors
Folks in Fayette
County, like the rest of the nation, have become more dependent upon
future retirement incomes that are tied to 401-Ks, IRAs, SEPs, and the
like. The Enron debacle may seem like a far-off Texas problem but believe
me it isn't at all.
PTC
doesn't need 'garish' new flag
Re the proposed
design for a new flag for Peachtree City in the Jan. 4 Citizen:
Why
a moratorium in PTC? Do your job, Mayor
I don't understand
why the new [Peachtree City] mayor [Steve Brown] needs a 90-day moratorium
when he said during the election that he was going to hit the ground
running. Prior to the election, he always claimed to know in detail
what was best for the city and criticized Mayor Bob Lenox for never
doing things the way he thought they should be done.
Patience?
How about compassion for teen
This is in response
to the "Lack of patience can be tragic" letter. In my opinion
the writer of that article needs to show some compassion.
To
pick your candidate, just follow the money
If we believed everything
we read in the newspapers, we'd soon come to this conclusion: political
campaign contributions are given by people who hate to give them, and
they're given to people who hate to ask for them. Ask any politician,
and he (or she) will tell you how much he hates raising money. Ask lobbyists,
and they'll tell you they give the money only because they have to.
What gives here?
Islam
is not a religion of peace: Read the Quran
I never expected
my recent comments to raise such a ruckus. I am grateful, in this day
of political correctness, to The Citizen for having the courage to print
my thoughts.
Some
definitions of Muslim, bigot, fool . . .
Muslim: Pertaining
or belonging to the Nation of Islam. Arabic "one who surrenders
(to God).
Muslim
debate: Peace must be means and end
I feel deeply saddened
by some of the recent letters to the editor that speak very poorly of
Islam and Muslims. There are so many things I could say to debate these
ignorant views, but I feel any such ideas will be tossed aside by some
of the readers.
Will
people believe lie about religious right?
Correspondent Stuart
Shepard writes that a political attack is being prepared against the
"religious right" for the upcoming election. What is the battle
plan?
Story
of civilians killed by bombing is suspect
An opinion piece
regarding civilian casualties in the Afghan conflict, by Roberto J.
Gonzalez, anthropology professor at San Jose State University, is making
its way around the country. It has appeared in at least the San Francisco
Chronicle and Atlanta Journal-Constitution since the first of the year.
More
will come to see abuse in parents' smoke
Günther Rückl
has very good points in his Dec. 5 letter ("Parents' secondhand
smoke is really a form of child abuse"). Smoking around children
can be child abuse if we use the criteria that if something hurts a
child then it is abuse.
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