Conservative Forum — Week of November 10

Support Embattled U.S. Military Officer

I hope you can see fit to throw your editorial support behind Lt. Col. Allen B. West, who faces court martial for actions that saved American lives in Iraq. (see "Don't Prosecute This Hero")

If my sons were serving in Iraq, I could only hope that such a military officer would serve as their commander. The terrorists killing our soldiers in Iraq follow no code of honor and likewise deserve to be treated in kind.

The chaos in Iraq must come to an end sooner rather than later, and if unconventional means must be employed, so be it.

Please turn up the heat on those who can help the good Colonel.

Terri Schiavo's Selfish Husband

Regarding your article on Terri Schiavo ["Jeb Bush Acts To Save Terri Schiavo"], in New York State, we have something known as a "DNR" form-if you do not have one of these signed, the emergency room doctors, ambulance attendants and everyone else will do whatever it takes to keep you alive.

If Schiavo did not have any written statement regarding her wishes, how is it that her husband is being taken at his word?

This is another example of "power"-he has moved on with his life with a new partner and a baby on the way.

Why then, does he not relinquish his custody of his wife, to her parents, and let them care for her?

He loses nothing by letting them take custody of her care. This man is a selfish human being.

In-State College Tuitions For Illegal Immigrants?

I read with interest the article ["Should Illegal Aliens Get Discounted Tuition?"] in my current issue.

I may have missed it, but none of the Congressmen addressed the issue of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

How can tax money (from States) be provided to one group of people in this country but denied to others? Doesn't this violate the Civil Rights Acts of the '60s?

Even if we were to consider making such monies available to illegal aliens in this country, to deny other citizens the same benefit, would seem constitutionally unlawful.

On Domestic Violence And Marriage Protection

I'm writing in regard to Prof. Stephen Baskerville's excellent article ["Domestic Violence Awareness Meets Marriage Protection"].

Dr. Baskerville's comments were right on point.

The profiteers of the domestic violence industry are not so much interested in protecting women from violence as they are in providing social and legal entitlements. The claim of domestic violence has become the atomic bomb of divorce litigation for lawyers who represent wives.

Restraining orders are issued without regard to facts, being based solely on the statements of the accuser. Here in New Hampshire, figures provided by one women's resource agency indicated that the courts invalidated 80% of the complaints they had encountered.

Domestic violence industry profiteers issue press releases and call press conferences to trot out their made up statistics, but studiously ignore the findings of the world's foremost center for the objective study of domestic abuse, the Family Violence Lab at the University of New Hampshire.

For over forty years, the findings of that group have consistently shown that domestic violence is an equal opportunity employer. But the profiteers continue to ignore the truth in favor of feminist entitlements. Sadly, the media consistently ignore the truth as well.

Prof. Baskerville correctly alludes to the conflict between protecting marriage as a heterosexual institution, and the proponents of homosexual marriage.

But he is also quite correct in observing that the abuse of domestic violence law constitutes an attack on marriage from another perspective. It becomes obvious that the antipathy toward marriage is a collusion of forces, presenting severely detrimental effects to American society.

As those forces continue to attack our cultural foundations-family, marriage, religion, the Constitution-men have become the scapegoats, just as the Nazis scapegoated Jews, and the Communists scapegoated the intelligentsia. If allowed to progress to the same conclusions, one can only say, "God save America."

Thank you for printing Stephen Baskerville's article, 'Domestic Violence Awareness Meets Marriage Protection.'

As Viktor Frankl, the concentration camp survivor wrote in his book, Man's Search for Meaning, what hurts most is not the punishment, but the injustice of it, the unreasonableness.

It is unjust for all the Domestic Violence hoopla to focus on men as the sole perpetrator.

The Essence of Hillary Clinton

Let me say that Hillary Clinton is a far left radical for which I have no respect.

You frequently refer to her as "Hill." To me this denotes a warm and loving term, which I deeply resent.

I love HUMAN EVENTS and have influenced several people to subscribe to it.

It is one of the few publications where true facts are published.

Justice Roy Moore Breath of Fresh Air

Boy, what a breath of fresh air and sanity the interview with Alabama Chief Justice Moore was ["Roy Moore on Religion in the Public Square"]. Here's a guy-and a judge to boot-not afraid to tell it like it is.

Yes, this is a Christian nation. It is the liberal elite in control of most courts, media and schools who wants to change America into a godless utopia of equality and diversity. Laws now are drafted on the basis of the pleasure principle and absolute individualism rather than the natural law and revelation.

Moore is right in pointing out that those who would banish the Ten Commandments are trying to destroy the "organic law" of the nation, which is rooted in Holy Scripture.

Kudos to Moore for standing up and bravely defending his own state of Alabama's Constitution, which declares its laws to be grounded upon the stone tablets given by Almighty God to Moses.

May the Lord be with Judge Moore when he has his day in court November 12 to determine if he will be reinstated chief justice of Alabama.