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Dear Editor,

Ms Saunders uses a paint gun when a watercolor brush would suffice. I

haven¹t yet read her indictments of all doctors as thieves when a few cheat

Medicare. Nor have I read any vitriolic articles denouncing all CIA agents

when Aldrich Ames sells secrets that kill another agent. Yet those concerned

with animal rights are branded ³radicals² and ³nuts². If Debra did some

journalistic research she would learn that most animal rights activists are

against this type of aberrant behavior, but like Jayson Blair of the New

York Times, that proves to difficult for her. If one radical making bombs

trying to implement compassion taints all compassionate thinkers, then it

stands to reason using her paint gun that one lazy, immoral, unthinking

journalist makes all journalists lazy and unthinking. Maybe not all, but

definitely Debra.

She dismissed Gandhi¹s quote because the charter added ³non-human² in

front of ³animals.² Here are some others: ³A thinking man feels compelled

to approach life with the same reverence he has for his own.² Albert

Schweitzer.

³It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation

and death, ŠIt¹s cruel, it¹s brutal, it¹s inhumane, and most people don¹t

want it.² Abigail ³Dear Abby² Van Buren.

³Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and

furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is

no justification for indulging in such acts of brutality.² The Dali Lama.

³Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life

on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.² That wadical wascal

Albert Einstein.

³The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made

for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created

for men. Yes, I¹m sorry Alice Walker, you too, according to Debra, are a

radical nut.

Respectfully,

Bill Minikel