Vox Clamantis: Simply Twisted
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To the Editor:
I am shocked at the levels of naivete on display in Zachary Hyatt '09's article ("Updating the Second Amendment," April 27). Who will have guns without a Second Amendment? Criminals and the police. Where does that leave law-abiding citizens? Screwed, either on the whims of the violent or through absolute dependence on the government for personal security.
One week away from graduation, this fifth-year senior has found himself looking back at a Dartmouth life that was. I cannot say that my time here has always been easy or pleasant; I am, after all, a fifth-year senior for a reason. These are the memoirs of a basement dweller.
On Feb. 1, 2007, British police arrested nine Muslim men in Birmingham for their alleged plan to kidnap and behead a Muslim British serviceman. A large segment of the Muslim population stood up in defense of these men, to an extent that Muslim clerics throughout the country needed to call for calm. Many feel the Muslim community is being unfairly targeted.
It is official. The Student Assembly is the most worthless organization on campus. However, considering the oh-so-juicy expos on the rebel faction led by former Academic Committee Chair Adam Shpeen '07, the weak defense of his presidency by our President Tim Andreadis '07, and Andreadis' secret manifesto calling for a frat-free world, our worthless and lame Assembly hasn't been this terrible since, well, about 1769.
To the Editor:
Several weeks ago, Iraqi Prime Minster Ibrahim al-Jaafari called for the United States to begin withdrawing American forces from Iraq by as early as 2006. President Bush correctly deflected the Prime Minister's statement by refusing to set a time table for the American disengagement from the war-torn land as such an action would give the terrorists a clear cut date to plan an organized offensive when American presence would be at its weakest. Other more extreme voices in America and abroad have called for the immediate removal of U.S. troops, using words such as "occupiers," "crusaders," "infidels," etc.
The Israeli Knesset's decision to unilaterally evacuate and dismantle Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip this coming August has been widely viewed by the press and the international community as an inevitable first step towards peace within the framework of the Middle East peace process. President Bush, patriarch of the sputtering "Road Map," has shown his support for disengagement by hosting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at his ranch in Texas this past April, while European leaders have been more quietly supportive of Israel's plan, as they believe it will foster future peace. Despite the fact that Sharon has generally succeeded in convincing the international community of the soundness of Israel's disengagement plan, he has failed to sway a vocal, dissenting minority in the Knesset, a large segment of the Israeli populace, and the Palestinians themselves, the main benefactors of disengagement. Through its proposed disengagement, Israel is not only giving Gaza away but also appears to be ceding an ideological victory to terrorist organizations and the moral right it claims to possess pertaining to the existence of settlements in the West Bank.