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Friday, November 20, 1992
OPINION UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
IN OUR OPINION
When police break laws, they must pay the penalty
The recent case of a Detroit man being beaten to death again raises a number of questions about the role of the police in our society.
The comparisons to the Rodney King beating are inevitable, but this is a much more important case than that one. After all, Rodney King lived through his encounter with the cops. Malice Green, the man in Detroit, did not.
To his credit, the Detroit police chief acted swiftly, and it appears that the incident will be fully investigated. Questions still remain, however, and the most important one is this: Why do things like this keep happening?
On any given day, a police officer may find himself in life-threatening situations, where a moment's hesitation could result in his death. In situations such as these, the line between police brutality and simple self-defense is blurred.
This is, of course, no excuse for beating a man to death. And it seems fairly clear that at least two of the seven officers involved in the Detroit killing went well over that line when they continued to beat Green even after he had been handcuffed.
Police officers in our cities are asked to perform a number of difficult tasks. Many laws are difficult to enforce. By the very nature of their job, police officers in inner cities come face to face with desperate, potentially violent people every day. It may be that coping with all of this is more than any person can bear.
Police officers are not superhuman. They are very human and make mistakes just like the rest of us. When they make these mistakes they should pay the same penalties as the rest of us.
MARK COATNEY FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARD
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Arms dealers must be held accountable in hostilities
Getting to the truth of what really went on during the Iran-Iraq war, when an arms embargo was supposedly in existence against both countries, is important for its own sake. The British and the U.S. public have a right to call those involved to accountability.
It is important also for the rest of the world, especially for people in the Middle East, because it underlines once again the hypocrisy of Western governments. It is becoming more clear as new revelations come to the surface that many countries were running with the hare and hunting with the hounds.
This went on during the Iran-Iraq conflict and continued even after that, and there have been reports that Saddam Hussein was being bolstered at least until shortly before his aggression against Kuwait.
Indeed, the story has been repeated many times earlier at many other places depending on the strategic interest of the arms-supplying countries in a particular region and a particular conflict. The West's military-industrial complex has exercised a powerful influence on international affairs, and despite the end of the Cold War, it remains a potent force.
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The search for markets for arms by Russia and the other republics of the former Soviet Union can only have made the situation worse. It has been well established that gun-running is not the exclusive privilege of individual operators.
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Denial of World War II atrocities reveals ignorance of anti-Semites
Just in time for winter break, I offer you the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme.
An anti-Semitite with an overactive imagination and way too much time on his hands, one Gregg Clemner of Boring, Ore., is offering $50,000 to anyone who can prove that the Holocaust actually happened.
I don't know why I'm sharing this with you because $50,000 is a lot of money. I almost could pay off my debt. That's just the kind of gift you I am—lady.
You see, Clemner claims that the Holocaust never happened. Myth No.1 asks the investigator to "Prove there was one gas chamber in Nazi-occupied territory for the purpose of genocide."
Here's all you have to do. Clemen has put up 50 grand for the taking for anyone who can prove just one of nine "myths" about World War II atrocities.
He doesn't dispute that there were gas chambers. He disputes that they were erected for the purpose of genocide. Unfortunately, Clemmer offers no explanation as to why the chambers were there. Perhaps he thinks that the Nazis were investing in the post-war tourism boom.
Yes, come visit Auschwitz Land.
Fun for the whole family.
Myth No. 3 asks the investigator to prove that one million Jews were in the camps. Now, understand what it means to be a warrior. Unrevised history tells us that six
DAVID MITCHELL
million Jews died as a result of the Nazis' Final Solution. In other words, you only need to come up with one-sixth of the evidence.
However, No. 4 is my personal favorite. It asks you to prove that "The Diary of Anne Frank" is a hoax. Of course every good anti-Senite knows that the work was actually ghostwritten by Ernest Hemingway.
Disproving the myths in items five through seven involves convincing the major television networks to air the historical revisions' point of view. For those attempting to earn the $50,000, I suggest sticking to No. 3. Networks need sponsors. Few corporations or organizations are going to buy time during a holocaust review board.
fuse and destroy our country, while acquiring trillions (no exaggeration) of our dollars in the process. Yes, a conspiracy."
Of course, it is the media that Clemmer blames for this great untruth.
"The media's intent in Israel is to unite and build the country," he writes, "Here, directed by the same group, the intent is to misinform, con-
I admit it. I entered the field of journalism for the obvious windfall I would make by supporting Israel. It's true. In a fact of friend mine — a recent graduate of the University — already has turned her first million working as a health reporter in St. Joseph, Mo.
Conspiracv? Yes.
Also included in this gargantuan packet of misinformation were three brochures from the Institute For Historical Review that stretched the envelope of human stupidity.
One brochure discredits Simon Wiesenthal as "a bogus Nazi Hunter."
Included in Clemens's propaganda were more than a dozen of the "122 fake Holocaust pictures" from Udo Walendy's "Forged War Crimes Malign the German Nation." Perhaps most pathetic in this category is the assertion that a young boy being rounded up by SS officers in a famous photo is actually alive, well, wealthy and living in London.
Wiesenthal as a "Bogus Nazi Hunter." Another, titled "A Prominent False Witness," attacks Elie Wiesel. Wiesel, who is a concentration camp survivor, wrote "Night" based on his experiences. But according to the Institute, the Nobel Peace Prize winner is a phony.
The brochure titled "Inside the Auschwitz 'Gas Chambers'" reveals that the gas chambers, if they actually
had been operational, would have been capable of killing just 1,693 people a week — not the thousands reported to have been exterminated on a daily basis. At that rate the brochure said it would have taken 68 years to kill the six million victims and 35 years to burn their corpses.
Of course, the revisionists never consider the gross amount of Jews who died in cattle cars in transport to the camps, or died of malnutrition, or were worked to death in camps, or died in twisted experimentation, or were shot by firing squads, etc. They also never explain why these never-used camps were built.
They also do not account for the films documenting the camps at the end of the war. No doubt they believe this is all Hollywood-produced stock footage from the "Winds of War" saga. But if it were so, why would they
But if it never happened, why explain it?
The nice folks at Hiliel probably wouldn't mind a five figure donation. And groups that fight this kind of cause are the most worthy causes of all.
So there it is kids, $50,000 are screaming your names. Take easy money from someone who doesn't deserve to have money to give away.
Perhaps the sweetest justice would be to take the anti-Senite's money and give it to one of the worthy causes he works against.
Associate editorial editor David Mitchella
a DeSoto major senior in journalism.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Women should fight for respect
On that day, while I was riding the bus to class, two young men got on at the Union and sat next to me. As we
I admit that the sound of the whistle was annoying but so is the fact that every 15 seconds a woman somewhere is being abused.
Several weeks ago, a women's group on campus was holding an event outside Strong Hall. They were blowing a high-pitched whistle to signify that every 15 seconds a woman becomes a victim of some form of domestic violence.
were passing Strong and the whistle event, the two men had a small discussion about the event that went something like this:
"Did you hear that ... damn whistle they be blowing!"
"Oh, they're blowing that stupid whistle because every 15 seconds a woman gets beat or something!"
The other said, "I ought to go over there and kick one of them bitches in the face!" That would give them some 'tin' to blow that... whistle about!"
I sat there stunned. I couldn't believe what they were saying and that they would say with all those people around. I wanted to say something to them, to stand up for all the women who have suffered, but I was so shocked and so full of rage that I was speechless.
I am calm enough now to say something. I want everyone to know the kinds of things women endure every day of our lives. Attitudes like the ones those men exhibited exist all around us. Not only is it disgusting, but it is scary. Attitudes like that will not change until women learn to stand up and defend themselves. Until we decide to disprove the myths that we are stupid, mere objects, or raging evil bitches — nothing will ever change. It is up to us to fight for the respect we deserve.
We don't want revenge, or to punish men. That is not our goal. Men shouldn't be scared of us. We only want respect and the right to live our lives free from fear of hate.
I will never forget those two men and their reaction to a women's peaceful demonstration It was a reaction of selfish fear. I have never been so humiliated nor so angry as I was that day. It was a perfect example of the human ability to go against why all women have to stand up, scream and fight for respect.
Every second we waste in silence, women are suffering because of it.
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Nikole Hendricks
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