Letters

United Nations

Organization aids the cause of terrorism

Wm. Bacon’s warning (Enterprise letter Jan. 10) about the United Nations was current but did not provide the U.N.’s past history nor present link to terrorism.

When the United Nations was set up after World War II by convicted communist spy Alger Hiss, it was supposedly begun as a place where nations could meet to solve problems; but in recent years, far from accepting its role as a body for discussion and avoidance of war, the U.N. has served as an international microphone for countries that sponsor terrorism and provide havens for terrorists and spies. This U.N. is now even lusting for the power to control the world as the seat of the proposed socialist/communist “New World Order” government. Entrenched internationalist bureaucrats in our State Department want to give away our country as a servant under this “One World” government. We must demand that Congress stand up to this brazen attempt to abandon our national heritage, showing the politicians what they fear most: thousands of outraged American voters! Ask them to stop this insane quest for power by these unelected U.N. bureaucrats.

The world’s most wanted state sponsors of terrorism are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, and Sudan; and all are members of the United Nations. Furthermore, all seven countries receive some form of support from the U.N. financial, economic, humanitarian, or otherwise; and America pays almost 20 cents out of every dollar of the support these countries get.

These nations finance, harbor, and equip terrorists, provide terrorists with safe haven, dispatch them, and then give them political cover after they attack.

If we want to stop aiding terrorism, then clearly we must get out of the United Nations!

ESTHER ANDERSON

North Seattle

Iraq

War would be an

act of aggression

Wake up, America! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to analyze the administration’s headlong, unthinking pursuit of an attack on Iraq. The war on terrorism and the faltering economy are being ignored (on purpose) by the administration.

We are being “sold a foul bill of goods.” The United States is not being attacked or under a threat, yet we are embarked on a new chapter of aggressive war policy. I can’t recall a similar chapter in our history except the attack on Mexico and the attack on Spanish Cuba and the Philippine Islands. Can we look with pride and satisfaction at the Indian wars?

We are a blind bully; American wives, mothers, and sisters should be in the streets protesting the killing of innocent children, sons, daughters, and husbands. Air attacks are so antiseptic. We look at pictures that the administration is using of dead, gassed Kurds yet we are about to produce the same result. Have our Christian principles become so perverted that we can be led into the role of the aggressor? I don’t like “where,” “how” or “why” we are going to war.

JOHN HENRY

Edmonds

Edmonds Crossing

New alignment would affect park

The alignment of the proposed new ferry terminal at Point Edwards has been drastically revised. Earlier plans placed the ferry landing at the end of the existing UNOCAL pier. The new configuration has a ferry landing west of the south end of the Edmonds Marina. The access lanes would clear the railroad tracks at 321 and then swing between the Marina and Marina Beach Park. It appears that the north end of the park would be lost. The UNOCAL pier would be removed. Although this most recent plan purports to be a refinement of the original Point Edwards draft terminal plan, it is, in fact, a completely new proposal and one which will have major visual and noise impacts on the port and park.

Sketches of the new and past plans can be obtained at City Hall.

Since the terminal plan is new, it would help if the mayor and council president placed this fourth proposal on the council’s agenda for public discussion. Elected officials rarely attend consultant presentations designed for the public. It would be reassuring to know that they actually understood the new proposal, and, more importantly, that they know what their constituents think of it.

NATALIE SHIPPEN

Edmonds

War protests

Thank you to paper

for event coverage

Thank you to Pamela Brice and to the Enterprise for the Jan. 10 article on the anti-war activities in this area. I very much appreciate your writing about this important work that is happening in our community. I am proud of the people who are protesting the war, and proud of you for letting the community of Shoreline know that some of its citizens share this view.

DIANE LOBAUGH

Shoreline