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Letters to the editor
Conscientious objectors are not a criminal lot
Friday. October 22. 1971
To the editor:
The recent editorial concerning draft
amnesty by Keith Weatherly (October
lr) was a study in overstatement and
.'..T.ear tactics. Though I agree with the
author that McGovem and Kennedy may
: using the issue to political advantage, I
fc-el that the author is letting his political
fw lings interfere with his rationality and
irp rr. e n t a t i ve ability .
I see certain issues of morality at stake
here. First, Weatherly says that "We
should not anymore think of removing
the guilt from a draft dodger than (from)
thief or a kidnapper." I beg to differ.
Certainly there is a substantial difference
I -tv.ee:. a man refusing to serve his
country in an undeclared war and a man
committing a crime involving force
2?:mst an individual. This is naivete,
f urther, it seems beyond the realm of
possibility that the granting of amnesty
you Id "open the doors for all men to
refuse induction into the armed services."
There will always be those fsuch as
Weatherly, presumably) who would give
their lives and their souls for the almighty
flag. I doubt that all the amnesties in the
orid would change their brand of
patriotism (our country, right or wrong).
Certainly, there would be a number of
people who would take advantage of the
amnesty. At the Oakland induction
Center, over half the people called up in
re-ent months haven't shown as it is. The
major point that Weatherly missed is that
going to Canada to avoid the draft or
Staying in this country after refusing
induction is a much harder task than he
realizes. One leaves the security of the
United States' economic feather bed and
faces uncertainty and hard times for his
beliefs if fie goes to Canada. It is no easy
way out , as is implied.
In addition to a misrepresentation of
the motives and character of these people
who refuse induction, Weatherly proceeds
to smear genuinely concerned groups who
vvi ,h to see an equitable solution to the.
problems of our expatriates. The N.C.
Veterans for Peace at UNC are referred to
as "this opportunistic group of people"
with no furth explanation for the use of
this derogatory phrase. At best this
smacks of bad journalism, and upon
further examination this could be easily
Construed to be libel.
If a group that has actually served in
the armed forces during this conflict sees
a need to support a cause that is of no
I'UMinj benefit to themselves (as they
are no longer draf table), how can this be
called opportunistic? Surely they know
more about what is happening in Viet
Nam and the Armed Services than anyone
cloistered in some University in the U.S.
In short. Weatherly has taken an issue
of some importance and used it to
condemn anyone with a different
political or moral outlook from his own
as a person suffering from "cowardice" or
at best being a "dove" who has tried to
make the unsupportable (in Weatherly's
eyes) distinction between aiding and
abetting an undeclared war and being a
thief or a kidnapper.
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To the editor:
It's rare that I see anything on the
DTH editorial page as moving and as
compelling as Brad Stuart's "Once a
junkie, always a junkie."
It hurts to lose a friend, especially to
heroin. Stuart helped convey Ln a way no
figures can the agony and tragedy of a
person hooked on junk. Lynn's case is all
the more chilling since she represents a
"successful" cure from the habit.
More is needed in the Tar Heel about
how these drugs affect our lives. You
cover the medical side of drugs, but how
about an Insight into the lives of drug
users?
Horace Johannson
We must know
who gives life
To the editor:
On Thursday, October 7, a column
appeared under the heading "Profit
system is basic cause." I was, shocked is
not the word, disgusted beyond belief at
the pseudo-moralistic tone of Mr.
Richter's letter, and even more disgusted
by his advocatory persuasion for a system
of moral disolution.
The man of "the double standard" -the
man who lives "by force, yet counts
on those who live by trade" is the man
who is a "hitch-hiker of virtue."
"When (man has) made evil the means
of survival, do not expect men to remain
good. Do not expect them to stay moral
and lose their lives for the purpose of
becoming fodder of the immoral. Do not
expect them to produce, when
production is punished."
When the day comes that men who
live by a strict moral code, men who live
by the virtue of production, are forced to
become the slaves of those who do not
produce, we will see, not only the end of
our capitalistic form of government, as
some would wish, but the end of our
freedoms of purchase, of livlihood, our
very freedom to exist.
If the day should come when those
who are the producers of wealth are
forced by "laws" or guns or force of any
kind, to serve those who do not produce,
then the day will come when we will see
the end of our civilization.
The credo of "from each according to
his ability to each according to his need"
is the hall mark of the moral degenerate.
When any man decides to set himself as
arbiter of another man's right of
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)'.:. Richter attacks the process cf
!et::r.z "the wealthy make -;h ;rr.pc::sr.:
decisis (of production . Who. by Gzi.
Aou'i have a better r.ght to make th:e
decisions cf production; than those men
a h o p r '. i u c e .
"...when well see men d
starvation around us, vour heart
of any earthly use to save them. And I'm.
heartless enough to say that when you'll
scream, 'but I dodn t know it! you :..
not be forgiven." This quotation from
one of the writings of Ayr. Rand
expresses precisely what will happen if
the men of mmd. of intellect are forced,
not to produce according to their rat::nal
thought processes for their gain but. t :
produce at the whim cf some arbitrary
""board" of would-be righteous censors
for the gain of ethers.
The sound of a moral looter is cr.e of
disclaiming man's individual rights to his
own production, placing the "need cf
others" above his own requirements.
The most horribly abused statement in
the American language is that "All Men
Are Created Equal." They are most
definitely not, and no one with half a
brain and the wits to use it. would ever
make such an asinine statement.
We each have our limits. We nay not
all be able to produce a "da Vinci"
masterpiece or a Wagnerian trilogy or a
thermo-nuclear reactor, but we can all
produce to the extent of our own
capabilities and give proper credit and
thanks to those to whom we are indebted
for creating those things which we can
not. But, we should never, under any
stretch of the imagination for one
moment think we have any right which
entitles us to say what a man may or may
not produce, or in what quantity or for
whom.
If Mr. Richter is looking for a way to
censor the production of American
businessmen, he has a morally just way at
his finger-tips, one which he so glibly
tosses away - simply the power not to
purchase that which he does not want.
If this, then, should restrict him to not
being able to purchase something he
wants, let him produce it himself - he
certainly has no right to force someone
else to produce it for him.
When you destroy, as would certainly
happen under the plan advocated by Mr.
Richter, a nation's industrial complex it
takes centuries to rebuild it or to gather
the economic resources to make the start.
Let's face it, can you picture a "Marshall
Plan" from some European, Asian,
African or South American country or
countries of such magnitude to re-create
what could in a very short time be
completely destroyed by the attempt to
control the minds of the men of
production in this country? Don't be
absurd. There is no nation on earth
remotely capable of it, and why, because
we and we alone have built our nation on
a basis of individual rights - rights not
only of the poor but rights, too, of the
rich.
The legend of Robin Hood should be
completely stamped out, as philosopher
Ayn Rand states - the legend of the
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If a man is equal t o his mc-.e . then it
serves hi.., :f not. it destrcys him. The
same is true of any ;ob c-r.e does or
position one holds. If a man is capable of
product!:- he prepuces. It' he is not, he
either dies cr lives off the prduct::n cf
others - a parasite.
No. Mr. R;;hter. Wh.t we mot
decidedly do not need is a "Sociahstic
Economic System." What we need are
fewer wh' es a d b-'tt1 s a d no r e men
cf production, men of the mmd.
When the day finally dawns that all
men realize that you can't force a mind,
that day will herald the c:m:r. of a true
and workable "Utopia."
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duty and wealth to need, then we can all
look around us with horror at what will
be left of the world. The thing that all
men must understand is that these men cf
production are the givers of life, net the
takers.
To live by the credo: "I swear by my
life and my love of it that I will never live
for the sake of another man, nor ask
another man to live for mine" is to truly
be the embodiment of the Greek
philosopher's statement: A is A.
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Cartoons used
as propaganda
To the editor:
There's been a lot of talk on campus
lately about "consumer protection" and
advertising. Ralph Nader told us nothing
new -that U.S. corporations rip-off
consumers in an infinite variety of ways.
The Other People told us how advertising
is used to manipulate the consumer by
creating artificial needs in our heads. And
Charles Richter noted that our whole
economic system is rooted in the
anarchic, irrational drive for profits by
business. But the system -through its
corporate elite -is striking back!
In the October 7 issue of the New
York Times, buried in the second section,
was a small news item. The U.S. Chamber
of Commerce has contracted
Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. to make
cartoons "to help instill confidence in the
American enterprise system." That's
right -the same folks who gave us Yogi
Bear and Fred Flinstone are now going to
give us propaganda on behalf of the profit
motive and free enterprise. The executive
vice-president of the Chamber noted that
the cartooons are only incidentally aimed
at children. The cartoons are part of the
Chamber's eductational program "to get
simple economic issues to the people,
most of whom don't read (newspapers)."
The VP's arrogrance and elitist attitude
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To the editor:
It is in my opinion that no re.il
support for the Concerned Athletes
Committee has been voiced on thi
campus. It is my personal feehr.g that
these student-athletes are Jeep!
concerned with the present direction of
college football at I'NC. Theirs is one of
firsthand information concerning the
brutal physical and psycholopc.il
abasements directed at football p!a ers
from the coaches. This depersonalization
of individuals was witnessed at its finest
in Wednesday's press conference when
Coach Doolev and the entire football
squad entered unannounced.
Doolev. who wouldn't give the CAC
any recognition before, made it a point to
voice his opinion through the constant
interruption of Bill Richardson, chairman
for the committee. The true character of
Bill Doolev was blatantly obvious and his
brainwashing procedures of the "men" on
his football squad surely has worked
wonders. I have heard some of thee
players voice concern towards the
dehumanization of football here at I'NC.
These people mipht be "men" on
Dooley's football field because they can
knock their man down or really hit the
sled, but how could you call yourselves
"men" when you see concerned fellow
athletes attempting to help you being
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