LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Town Meeting
East Hampton
May 27, 2002Dear Editor,
The comprehensive plan oversight committee members have often marveled at the size and scope of the community pool of intelligence, experience, and dedication. We have seen that evidenced in the citizen committees' reports that have become part of the comprehensive plan process.
Out of that group of wish lists and goals have come conflicts that must be resolved and priorities that have to be evaluated. New citizens and established traditions, the needs of the environment and our rural way of life, citizen services and business vitality, new radical ideas and old values, local methods and solutions from afar are just part of the panoply of conflicts to be resolved.
With that in mind, we have invited all of the town board, the comprehensive plan consultants, and you and any and all citizens to join us for an informational, questioning, give-and-take town meeting on Saturday at the LTV Studios on Industrial Road in Wainscott from 1 to 5 p.m. Hear John Lipman (Cape Cod committee) on drinking water, Elisabeth Kulas (Vermont Community Land Trust) on affordable housing, John Abrams (Martha's Vineyard) on overpopulation, and Robert Burshell (Center of Urban Policy Research, New Jersey) on overdevelopment.
We hope that all people with a wide range of opinions from a broad base of the political spectrum and those in search of ideas will dedicate a Saturday afternoon and attend. A nonpartisan, forgiving, balanced approach is vital for a final, representative comprehensive plan. We also know that a town with community enmity and a non-informed base is as hapless as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
HOWARD JOHN LEBWITH
A Likely Target
East Hampton
May 22, 2002Dear David,
Last Saturday, May 18, began with a heavy rainfall but by 3 in the afternoon the sky cleared and the sun came out, so weather could not have been what kept the residents of East Hampton from coming to the middle school to hear and learn about the imminent danger we all live under. A danger, not an idle threat, but a possible, indeed probable, terrorist act. This week has begun with repeated warnings from our government officials of just such an act in the near, possibly immediate future.
The Millstone nuclear power plant, just 25 air miles from East Hampton, is a likely target for a suicide bomber. The meeting Saturday was to alert and inform us about the threat Millstone is to every woman, man, and child in eastern Suffolk County. Though the County Legislature has an evacuation plan under consideration, we who live on the East End know there is no way such a plan can be implemented. Weekend traffic foul-ups are ample evidence of that.
To avoid Chernobyl in our backyard we must write, e-mail, telephone our elected officials and urge them to advocate, as we must, that Millstone be permanently and quickly closed.
Sincerely,
JEAN HOFFMANN
Outrages Continue
East Hampton
May 26, 2002To The Star,
The United States of America has been paralyzed. The apparent inability of all levels of our government to protect American citizens from foreign invaders who have dedicated themselves publicly to our death and destruction is the result of a politically correct mind-set that has infected our government leaders.
Federal policies that refuse to use racial profiling to screen passengers before they are allowed to board aircraft are not only self-defeating but represent criminal negligence. Federal policies that prohibit firearms from being carried and used by airline pilots are policies that I am sure are applauded by our enemies as they plot the next attack on the United States.
The Islamic extremists who have been allowed, by our insane immigration policies, to infiltrate our population and to hide out and be harbored by the many subversive Islamic organizations in our country are currently operating with impunity and are protected under our laws and are represented by left-wing lawyers who have the greatest disdain for our system of government.
Amnesty for illegal immigrants is a policy advocated by President George W. Bush, who has obviously been struck by a politically correct tranquilizer dart. This blanket amnesty will automatically change the status of these foreign invaders from federal criminals to invited guests, with the payment of $1,000 per head and without investigation into their political, criminal, or health histories.
All of the above outrages continue even as I hear and read public pronouncements by our illustrious leaders that it is not a matter of if but when we are next attacked.
Meanwhile, the majority of United States citizens are sitting fat and stupid with a remote in their hand trying to decide which evening news program they will allow to brainwash them into terminal paralysis.
Liberty, freedom, and the Bill of Rights.
Question authority - always.
DON M. TISDALL
One Of A Kind
Montauk
May 27, 2002To The Editor,
To the persons who stole our pink Victorian style ornamental birdhouse and concrete pedestal on May 25 from our front yard garden on Industrial Road, Montauk: We bought our historic (old schoolhouse, firehouse) home in shabby, rundown condition. It has been a long, slow project to repair and beautify - on very limited funds. Poor senior health has slowed us, but we've never lost the personal focus to upgrade and beautify.
We presented our garden and birdhouse ornament centerpiece for our pleasure and passers-by. We find it difficult to understand local persons who planned and executed this theft. Did you covet our ornament that much? How very dreary your lives must be to have to steal for your pleasure. Our birdhouse is highly identifiable, one of a kind, and available at only one resource.
ANN WECHTER and
JOHN KELLER
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