LETTERS
The War
Hat’s off to Larry Reese of Mission Viejo for his Nov. 26 letter voicing frustration over how a few who profit from their ridiculous comments can negatively affect our entire economy.
Well, it seems that’s the way our nation operates these days. Too much power in the hands of too few. Currently, the only people who are upset with how the government is handling the war are the media elite, the ACLU and many in the Democratic party! Just as with the descriptions of Saddam and his “elite” republican guard during the lead-up to the Gulf War, for weeks we were subjected to fears of the “indestructible” Taliban fighter. All they really know how to do well is terrorize people for media fodder. And, when they can’t win battles, they commit suicide and take as many with them as possible.
Now, our government has been criticized for being too aggressive and too successful.
This is war. If we don’t take care of them, they will take care of us. It is a shame that politicians, some in the legal industry, and particularly the media, are all in line to profit from Osama.
God Bless America. Let’s Roll.
Barry M. Gold
Irvine
At last the gauntlet has been thrown down, and all pretense of unity thrown aside, and the first lawsuit has been filed against a U.S. business, seeking to hold it liable for a death in the terrorist attack on Sept. 11.
We knew this was coming, didn’t we? America’s personal injury lawyers’ lobby worked hard to ensure there was no limit on attorneys’ fees in these lawsuits, and they worked hard to make sure they could take as much as they wanted out of their clients’ winnings.
Maryann Maloney
Executive Director
Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
Santa Ana
El Toro, Cont’d
Recent stories have pointed out the power of the Transportation Corridor Agency to delay the expansion of public freeways if said expansion infringed upon the agency’s profit margins on its toll lanes.
These same Transportation Corridor contracts also cast doubt upon the debacle of the decade, the El Toro Airport. The latest El Toro Environmental Impact Report conveniently fails to mention the Transportation Corridor toll road protection clauses mentioned above. This is of major significance because the clauses are so broad that they could prevent the state from doing any major freeway system reconstruction, which will certainly be required to accommodate a new airport dumped in the middle of a populated area.
Toll roads and airports have a major impact on the quality of life in OC, and we don’t need charlatans promoting “just the facts” (that they want you to know about), while relentlessly subverting the truth.
Dave Mulnard
Human Resources Director
Tustin
The public needs to understand what not is going on as regards El Toro clean-up planning.
The Navy has spent many millions on planning, but has yet to turn a spadeful of earth in actual remediation since the mid ’90s. Studies, studies, studies, and they have yet to do a complete physical survey of even the known pollution sites on the base.
Supervisors Smith, Coad, and Silva are so anxious to take possession of the property that they are more than willing to overlook the pollution and pave it over with an airport, sealing forever into mother earth a problem that is already percolating a plume of various lethal contaminants under Irvine.
These three should be jailed for failing completely to perform their responsibility to protect the health and safety of current as well as future Orange County citizens.
Michael Smith
Mission Viejo
