Dear Editor:

Scott Charney’s self-righteous straw man rant (“The race is on”,3/27/03) goes to show that the conservative movement is safe foranother generation.

Mr. Charney and his kind are stuck in the smoky haze of the1960’s where everything is economics and Marxist assumptions gounchallenged.

The most ridiculous of Mr. Charney’s assumptions (and there weremany) is that the “Spirit of Seattle” is anything to be comparedto, say, the “Spirit of ’76.”

The thugs of Seattle and other cities do not just protest; theydeliberately act to shut down cities.

One of the biggest organizers of these non-violent terroristsattacks is A.N.S.W.E.R., which is, without a question of a doubt, acommunist origination. Not all the people who attend the ralliesare anti-America, but the media and society should have forced themto distinguish themselves from the scum.

“The Economist” has an excellent article this week proving thatnon-governmental organizations like Greenpeace and Oxfam are reallyaiding and abetting the theft of cooperate investment, not debtforgiveness. Emerging technologies are making oil cheaper to drill,and the Middle East less important every day. This is not an oilwar!

The most reveling of Mr. Charney remarks is that “a unitedEurope could present a counterweight to the U.S.” Mr. Charney is acitizen of the world and I will be more than happy to fight him andhis comrades of unripe communist (greens) any day of the week

If Mr. Charney believes that World War I was a result of anAustro-Hungarian response to terrorism, then it should be easierthan I first believed.

William Baldwin
Political science and history major