February, 2004

Vol.5. NO.2.....................................................Pages 10 and 11

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Freedom from Fear

Dear Editor:

How is it that we live in fear? There are red, orange, yellow,
green and other alerts. Don't we have the mightiest military
the world has ever known? We have guns, rockets, tanks, 
warplanes, battleships, aircraft carriers, missiles, weapons
of mass destruction in the thousands, and the best warriors
with protective gear that money can buy. We still live in fear.
Why is that? Is there a fundamental flaw in the American policy
 reactions to terrorists?

Many decades ago four fundamental freedoms were enunciated by
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt. One of those freedoms was, FREEDOM
 FROM FEAR. I suggest that there is a solution to the problem
 concerning terrorists. The solution is not unique and has been
 around for centuries.

Do terrorists have a cause? If they do have a reason for acting
 as they do what is it? Terrorists do have causes. Terrorists
 feel injustices and they respond in the only way they know
 how to stand up to power. They have marginal power and are
 without an organized military. They are without uniforms,
 army, military hardware up through weapons of mass destruction.
 How then do they respond to what they see as real injustices:
 lack of food, clothing, housing, family, satisfying employment
 and a decent way of life?

The simplest way to respond to the mightiest power is to wrap
 one's self in “HE,” high explosives, and to detonate by stealth
 the explosive in places where power is manifest. The most
 sophisticated way was demonstrated recently when persons 
commandeered airplanes and flew them into manifest places
 of power, the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

The response to those terrorist acts has been to attempt
 to secure safety by making everyone suspect.  Hence every
 manner of security apparatus is put into operation. Barriers
 of every imaginable type are built. Security manpower is
 organized. Fear is accepted as the order of this new era.
 No thought is entertained to make security universal and
 to take away the causes of the terrorists. By recognizing
 the causes of the terrorists and by taking action to mute
 their complaints one could most certainly nullify terrorism.

America has long been both envied and detested. It is envied
 because of what we have and detested because of what we do.
 Los Alamos has long boasted, "FOR FIFTY YEARS IT KEPT THE PEACE.
" Through deterrence or control by fear IT kept the peace. A 
former, W-Division, weapons division head recently boasted,
 mess with the United States and we will make your country "go
 away", and we will bring "overwhelming force" to bear on peoples
 who challenge our imperialism.  To his way of thinking we
 are the "good" guys. Others who have lived in fear and felt
 injustice for more than five decades think otherwise and 
challenge American power in terroristic ways.

For centuries a new doctrine has been proclaimed. The new
 doctrine has been ignored by the doctrine of might. War is now
 defense. Peace though strength has, as before, been the rational
 of the mighty. The former President Eisenhower warned us of the
 dangers of a military and industrial complex. That complex has
 now reached its pinnacle. The limited resources of the mightiest
 of nations are allocated for obviously ineffective military
 acquisitions. The mightiest now also live in fear.

The new, but ignored doctrine, is: Do unto others as you
 would have others do unto you. Do good to those who might
 hurt you. Love your enemy. This doctrine is viewed by the
 mighty as a sign of weakness. Nonetheless, I assure all that
 this new way of thinking should be practiced. Einstein noted
 that since the Trinity test man must adopt a new way of thinking
. There must be a freedom from fear, not just for a few, but for
 everyone. The world can be made a safe place for everyone if
 military expenditures, which sap the strength of nations, were
 used for the manufacture of good and useful things. Every item
 from a gun to weapons of mass destruction must be recognized
 as being harmful to life on earth. It is not enough to shout,
 "Peace." The new doctrine must be implemented.

J. Robert Oppenheimer in his last address as director of 
Los Alamos 

Scientific Laboratory warned, "The peoples of the world must
 unite, or they will perish."

Render unto God, and man, service to a sustenance life on earth.
 This has a moral, patriotic priority for this over the, Hup,
 two, three, four shouts of obedient, unthinking, loyal, and 
patriotic service to a rich, aggressive, lawless, demanding, 
imperial Caesar. Pastors everywhere should understand and they
 must act.  

It is the responsibility of every leader, every politician, 
every editor, every pastor, every person to act to sustain
 life on this planet. The alternative as now practiced and
 carried to its final phase is too horrible to contemplate. 

Should man survive on this planet? It should not be our destiny
 to destroy ourselves. As long as there is life there is hope.
 This voice crying out from our burnt-out wilderness in Los
 Alamos, New Mexico should be heeded. The present race to 
oblivion must be terminated. Let common sense prevail. Let
 there be peace and freedom and freedom from fear for everyone
 on the planet.

Peace and love, Don Eduardo de Los Alamos

Edward B. Grothus, 208 Andanada, Los Alamos, New Mexico
 87544 USA

Phones: (505) 662-7438 (home) and (505) 662-5053 (work),
 e-mail: edgrothus@aol.com  

Letter to the Editor

Hubble Telescope

It is FALSE economy to cut funding and stop the re-supply /
 refurbishment of the space telescope.  There will be a
 gap of several years before it’s replacement can be sent up.
 With the increase of large solid objects hitting the earth 
and the End / beginning of the Mayan calendar in winter 
(December of 2112) we should not be blinded. The sun is going
 thru a Mega-cycle, The Shoemaker-Levey comet had many mountain
-sized fragments still orbiting the sun, we need to know what is
 out there.  I suggest that the Space telescope should be
 at least kept in orbit and that it should be used in a re-
cycling program as the heart of a moon-based telescope......

Frank John Holmquist Artist/inventor
The Black Hole Surplus Store and Museum 
4015 Arkansas, Los Alamos NM 87544,
E-mail:tblackhole@aol.com,
Ph: 505-662-5053, Fax: 505-662-9713 

Using DNA to Trace African Ancestry

Part of a growing group of pioneering commercial laboratories, Washington, DC-based African Ancestry, Inc. (www.africanancestry.com),  is the exclusive licensee of Dr. Rick Kittles’ extensive database of genetic lineages from Africa. The database—the world’s largest repository of its kind—-was just completed by Dr. Kittles, an expert at the forefront of efforts to use DNA to trace ancestry and scientific director of African Ancestry. The company is owned entirely by African-American investors.

As a part of the firm’s confidential testing process, cells swabbed from the inside of an individual’s cheek are compared with genetic information that Dr. Kittles gathered via blind sampling methods from people living in countries ranging from Senegal to Niger. African Ancestry’s database holds genetic lineages of individuals who respectively are members of any one of 75 ethnic groups residing in the West and Central African regions from which people were procured for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade that occurred from about 1600 to 1850.

African Ancestry also has access to DNA sequence information that other sources have collected throughout the continent. Unlike similar tests now available, in addition to telling an individual if he or she does in fact share genetic lineages with African peoples, African Ancestry’s testing process can also pinpoint from which region in Africa his or her lineage originates. For more information visit: www.africanancestry.com

. What Bush wants, Bush gets

   The Bush Administration and biotech industry won a significant GE battle recently. After a five year moratorium on genetically engineered (GE) foods, the European Union has caved in to pressure from the US and has now conceded that it will lift the ban and approve GE sweetcorn. This resignation of food safety standards falls on the heels of New Zealand’s cancellation of a two year moratorium on GE crop trials, which happened just a few weeks ago.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/corn111803.cfm