Letter to the editor submitted 10/15
- declined 10/19
The Boy Scouts vs the
ACLU and Clallam United Way
The Boy Scouts of America have a long
(95 years) and distinguished history
of service to America. Very many
of our heros, and our leaders have been Scouts.
No organization has a better record
of service to society and our youth.
"Honor", "Duty", "God" and "My country"
are words from the Scout oath.
The
ACLU and others who would
destroy our traditions and reduce Americans
to the lowest common moral denominator
hate those words. The ACLU is
constantly using lawsuits and
threats to hamper the work of the BSA.
The sticking point is the BSA's
prohibition of homosexual recruiting by scout
leaders. The BSA does
not go around peeking into bedrooms, so there are no
doubt, homosexual scout masters
doing a fine service. But, the scouts are not
about sex, and do not allow a scout
leader who announces, his sexual choice,
the only reasonable motive being
recruiting kids to a dead-end life style.
Many of the lawsuits they are filing
are paid for by your tax dollars because
There is a provision in federal law
that the government will pay for"civil rights"
lawsuits. Seducing kids is a
"civil right"?
Similarly, "United Way" of Clallam
County will no longer support the scouts.
According to Patty Hannah, U/W suggested
the scouts use some material from
the Boys and Girls club and the scouts
refused. However, she also told me
some people give to U/W but direct
their gifts to the scouts. But, the catch to
that one is that the U/W deducts a
handling fee before sending the money on
to the scouts. The scouts are
listed in the book under 'b'. I send my donation
direct to them. Why should the
scouts money be used to support the U/W
when the U/W won't support the scouts???
See the book, The ACLU vs America,
by Alan Sears and Craig Osten."
See How the ACLU is Destroying America
The following letter to the editor
was refused publication. After I foolishly agreed to
some politically correct editing,
an edited version appeared 9/15. Here is the orginal:
The price of gasoline is going up and
since G. Bush was once in the oil business,
it must be his fault?
Ignore the fact that for five years
he has been trying to get our moribund US Senate
to allow us to tap our own huge oil
deposits in the Arctic. However, a small majority
(Including MURRAY and CANTWELL) think
the welfare of 2000 acres of Arctic desert
is more important thatn the welfare
of the nation and the state (Alaska crude is refined
here in Washington - that = jobs)
It is estimated that 2000 acres could produce enough
oil to replace the oil we buy from
the Saudis, who use part of what we pay them to
finance terrorists to kill us and are
prime movers in OPEC.
We can and should do more to develop
alternative energy. But, that takes time and
oil is a lot more than energy.
Do you ever use plastic? It's made out of oil. One could
hardly come up with a manufacturing
process that doesn't use oil.
This country also has vast deposits
of coal. Most oil products (including gasoline) can
be made from coal. Only, the
groups who call themselves "environmentalists" oppose
the mining of coal. Then, there
is electricity generated from a totally clean, renewable
source: WATERPOWER. But,
those same folks will not allow more dams to be built
and are working to tear down ones already
in use.
Until we end the "dictatorship of the environmentalists", our downhill slide will continue.
s/Marv Chastain
The site sits right between two major
oil fields - North Slope (US) and a major Canadian
oil field. It's in the middle
of an Arctic desert about 2/3rds the size of Washington State, known
as the Arctic National Wildfife
Refuge (ANWAR). [not much wildlife can survie there] By
directional drilling, the oil companies
would only use about 2000 acres of this huge expanse.
Maybe the high price of gasoline will prompt some sensible actions in the Senate????
The enviros claim drilling would
endanger the Caribou. They made the same claim when
they opposed North Slope drilling.
Since then, the Caribou population has expanded
(at least trippling). So much
for enviros alarmism.