In Response to Secondary Poisoning of Wildlife in the May 18th Issue

 

In Response to Secondary Poisoning of Wildlife in the May 18th Issue

 

  Thank you for your well informed article about "Secondary Poisoning" affecting wildlife. We have had our own unfortunate experiences with countless dead owls, wounded hawks and even baby deer. If we expect to live in rural areas we must understand that it is our intrusion on wildlife due to development and an increasing  population crisis that leaves innocent animals no place of refuge.

  Thus, it is time to practice diversity, cooperation, and tolerance. The use of chemicals to "control" plants and animals is an act of violence and a decision based on fear and the inability to see everything connected in evolution, part of the whole. We are not separate from the plant and animal kingdom. Yet, we continue to try and dominate what we cannot control.

  Chemicals suppress symptoms and contaminate not only wildlife but damage the very soil, water, and air we live on and breath which leaves long-term affects for present and future generations both large and small. The influx of asthma, cancer, and immune deficiencies is always on the rise. You are correct in educating people about their choices, but let's not stop there. Let's take responsibility as informed consumers participating with nature, not fighting it.

 

Sincerely,

Trish H.

 

In Response to Anita Elovitz’s Letter in the April 18th Issue

 

  Newt who I don’t like and the others investigating Clinton, did do it as you stated based on his lies under oath, sure Mr. Newt is a cheater also, most men do cheat. However he didn’t lie under oath about it and he didn’t lie on TV about it. I’m a democrat and Bill Clinton is my favorite president during my living days, but he lied to me directly and that effected me personally. To me sexual relations with a married person could include a kiss of passion.

  Clinton was a great pres, a great politician but he’s far from a perfect person, as most people are. Your response, Anita, to the letter is just as bad because you do the same thing towards Newt as was being done to the Clintons, so understand that what the contract with America has done to mess with the constitution has nothing to do with his personal life.

  If we required our politicians to be good people, then we’d have hardly any politicians. Good people, those who know how to treat their family correctly, those that are caring, rarely try to get into politics. Politicians are usually greedy, selfish types almost always very low on the ethical scale, they’re often times alcoholics who care far more about their own life then the crap that comes out of their mouths.

  People who seem to care more about politics than the real people and situations around them think that their opinion can change the world, perhaps they even think because they make people think that they are good for the world, that they really are. However politics is a world of its own and it’s a very evil world. A necessary evil at that, but not one that truly good people put most of their effort into.

  What makes this world a good place, is loving and caring people that do things to help and nurture those around them and those in their families. It really does take a village, caring and loving, not politics, opinions, or greed and power.
  I personally think that if the voting public were to know too much about any politician’s personal lives, even local politicians that we would find we wouldn’t want to vote for anyone.
  See the world does include evil. Evil, greed, corruption is everywhere, even and especially in the family. There are good republicans; there are bad democrats just as there are good sons and bad sons, good aunts and bad aunts.

-Jamie Mic Elovitz