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FROM PAGE 3
cratic New York City district attor-
neys proclaim their refusal to seek
the death penalty. Republican Su-
porated the bona fide occupational
qualification language of the 1964
Civil Rights Act. If equal treatment
by the law was proper then, what
has changed in the last 32 years?
U d by Republican Pete Wilson,
the regents of.the University of Cali-
fornia on July 20, 1995, passed a
resolution for an end to the explicit
use of race, religion, sex, color,
ethnicity or national origin as crite-
ria for regular admission and for
admission by exception. The reso-
lution also required admission crite-
ria so that no less than 50 percent
and no more than 75 percent of the
admitted class on any campus shall
be selected solely on the basis of
academic achievement.
Bob Dole leads a Republican
Party unmistakably representing
Americans' interests for today, to-
morrow, and the years beyond.
Former Democratic New York
Governor Mario Cuomo vetoed
death penalty legislation four times.
()nly the election of Republican Gov-
ernor George Pataki made the death
penally possible. Even then Demo-
penalty while Democratic judges at
all levels remain busy overturning
convictions on the basis of legal tech
nicalities.
Republican governors such as
George Hush of Texas have built
more prisons to keep us safe from
criminals. The Democratic record
on crime demonstrates that the?
dearly remain interested solely in
criminal rights, not victims' rights.
The stark differences between
the Democratic and Republican par
ties on these issues demonstrate
where the convictions of each party
lie. President Clinton and the Demo-
crats snub the interests of the Ameri-
can taxpayers on these issues that
matter to us.
'lite Democrats Ijad their oppor-
tunity for four decades, and they
failed miserably. Let us remember
that in two years the Republican
Congress has cleaned up most of
the-Democrats' mess and pointed
America in the correct direction for
the 21st century.
NOVEMBER
I RIDAY
here, loqjting for a better life. And
glad they are here. They don't
like useless parasites of
(Unless,
glead to the loss of America's iden
tity. Increasingly, more state an
local governments face
viding services
schoo
thing not to
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its own
Democrats
FROM PAGE 3
enough not to get Alzheimer's).
1 will concede that this year's
presidential election had already
turned ugly before baseball season
started with the Republicans sling-
ing mud at each other and each
candidate wooing the endorsement
of the Christian Coalition.
Many Republicans were turned
off when Pat Buchanan boasted that
he helped author the party's plat-
form. We have heard Clinton and
1 )ole exchange punches on the char-
acter issue, on age and on ethics
All the slander aside, I think fun-
damentally this election is straight-
forward. Economically, Dole, with
his good buddy Jack Kemp have
resubmitted a version of Reagan's
economic plan with a 15 percent tax
cut across the board.
Clinton has challenged the secu-
rity of Dole's plan under a balanced
budget and questions where the cuts
are coming from. When it came down
to protecting Medicare or education
in last year's budget, Clinton did not
back down, and Congress had to
concede in last January's standoff.
Who will stand up for education if
Dole cuts out the Department of
Education (as he plans to in his move
to further privatize student lending)?
So as this long election year
comes to a climax, make sure you
consult a non-partisan voter's guide
(provided free at the Student Center
and at central locations on campus)
so you can be an educated partici-
pant in the democratic process.
And if you were interested in my
endorsement as ringleader of the
campus Democrats, my vote goes to
the "Yellow Grating of the Computa-
tion Engineering Building" for
homecoming queen.
Libertarians
FROM PAGE 3
libertarian view (LP):
Income Tax: CW — Without it.
not enough people would be willing
to pay forthe many important things'
which only government can provide.
LP —Taxation is immoral, indistin-
guishable from theft. Alternatives
do exist for financing valid govern-
ment programs that do not involve
coercion but rather are based on
respect for the rights of the people
and on voluntary cooperation. Sell-
ing federal land, gold, silver and oil
to create a national defense endow-
ment fund is one alternative.
Social Security: C W —This pro-
gram, though in financial trouble,
must continue because older people
are entitled to retire with dignity.
LP — Not at all a pension fund, the
Social Security system is only a pro-
gram whereby working people are
taxed, and the money is immedi-
ately paid out to retired people. We
must end the bankrupt system, pay
off older workers and retirees by
selling federal assets and relieve
younger workers of the ever-increas-
ing Social Security tax.
The Selective Service: CW — A
listing of names will be helpful in
wartime if we need a draft. LP —The
draft is slavery, plain and simple.
Selective Service guarantees that a
young, male American citizen who
refuses to sign his name can be Jailed.
The War on Drugs: CW — This
effort is our best defense against
teen drug use, violent inner-city
drug-dealing gangs and drug-related
health care costs. LP — All drugs
should be legalized because the
government has no business telling
people what they can and cannot put
into their bodies. The current War
on Drugs is a replay of Prohibition
during the 1920s. In both cases,
peaceful citizens are branded as
criminals, violent gangs arise who
profit from illegal trade, and the law
enforcement and judicial systems _
enfoiice drug laws at the expense of
solving crimes with victims.
If most Americans value the
rights of the individual more than
government's wishes, why don't they
vole for the candidates of the party
which is dedicated on every issue to
preserving these rights? I have dis-
cerned two ideas which keep people
from act.ing.on their dissatisfaction
with the government.
The first is: "Today's complex
world requires a complex govern-
ment. It isn't feasible to base a soci-
ety on the? sole principle of individual
rights." History has shown that as
societies advance, those with high
regard for individual rights actually
fare much better than others. Take,
for example, the respective fates of
this century's major superpowers,
the USA and the USSR. The USA,
with fewer socialist policies, has
prospered, while the USSR has with-
ered.
The other idea blocking a vote
for Harry Browne is: "He won't win,
so why vote for him?" If we must
look at the polls, the only candidate
with a realistic chance of winning is
Clinton. I especially urge those who
want smaller government to forget
the idea that a vote for Dole is the
vote against Clinton. If you want
"smaller government," vote to actu-
ally decrease its size.
Losers can have great effects on
the fate of a nation. For instance,
every plank of the 1928 Socialist
Party's platform has since been
adopted into American law The LP
hopes to have an equal and opposite
effect on America.
I am happy to declare that 1 will
"vofeTofmrry Browne to siop die
government's encroachment upon
the rights of the individual
ter office this fall to
in his laps the greatest
legal immigration since the
,. wave
of illegal immigration to
ever hit the United
States. Here's what
each candidate plans to
do with the 1.3 million
tired, poor, huddled im-
migrants who will come
knocking on our doors
in each of several years
to come.
Bob Dole wants to
deny government ben-
efits to illegal immigrants, spend
more money on the border patrol
and aggressively enforce laws ex-
pediting deportation of criminal
aliens and illegal aliens. He plans
to make English the official lan-
guage of the United States and
wants to make it harder for immi-
grants to become citizens.
Bill Clinton likewise wants to
reduce illegal immigration by in-
creasing the border patrol, in-
creasing penalties for alien smug-
gling and streamlining deporta-
tion procedures. He also supports
penalizing companies that have
hired illegal immigrants. For le-
gal immigrants, Clinton wants to
take measures to reduce numbers
moderately.
Both verge on xenophobia, and
for good reason. However, it is
Clinton who makes more sense
and shows more careful thought
and integrity in his position.
As political unrest spreads in
this unstable post-Cold War cli-
mate, waves of immigrants will
continue to arrive at our borders
and drain social services, com-
pound the problem of a question-
able melting pot and, some fear,
urn.
the country.
Indeed, an immigra-
tion problem exists and
both candidates realize it
Thus, they have uimilar
agendas on this issue.
But what Clinton sees that Dole
doesn't is that we are not an un-
sympathetic country. True, as re-
cent polls show, we want legisla-
tion that will slow the flow of legal
immigration. But that does not
mean we hate those who have not
been fortunate enough to have
made ft here before our own immi-
grations.
According to Clinton, "Legal im-
migration reform must be based
on principles that are pro-family,
pro-workand pro-naturalization, re-
taining opportunities for family re-
unification as the levels are low-
ered."
Dole, on the other hand, seems
to be sending out a very clear mes-
sage to the world that we in the
United States do not want undesir-
ables contaminating our identity
Sfldperverting our language.
I, for one, do not happen to fall
into the natives' special interest
group, and thus 1 am not appealed
to by Dole's self-righteous crusade,
In fact, from my picture you can
probably tell that I am Asian. 1,
stereotypically, have many friends
whose families recently arrived
on«
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e important
is that the
" 1e carry-
also reflects
on the campaign in general.
Clinton shows himself to be a
morecapable, level-headed leader
who wants to take the country
forward, and that is what the world
needs to see in such a crucial
time of global uncertainty.
But what Clinton
sees that Dole
doesn't is that we
are not an
unsympathetic
country.
On this issue alone, both can-
didates share similar objectives,
so it would be hard to decide
where to put the check just by
their stances on immigration.
However, one has the better vi-
sion. It shows not only on his
stance on this issue, but o"n oth-
ers aswell. Clinton is the better of
the two real candidates, and I
would rather trust him to take our
country into the next millennium
than Dole.
James Ling is a Hanszen College
junior.
Nader
FROM PAGE 3
tion Act, originated in ideas or move-
ments created by Nader.
As anyone bemoaning Bob Dole's
poll numbers will attest, there is
more to an election than just the
character issue. But on issues, too,
the Green platform endorsed by
Nader seduces with its simplicity
and honesty.
With the Soviet Union gone, why
do we need $250 billion a year for
defense:' Cut it in half by 2000, says
Nader. With patient choice declin-
ing under Health Maintenance Orga-
nizations, with 40 million Americans
uninsured and with America 17th in
infant mortality in the world, let's
get universal health care.
With drug use up among teen-
agers, with alarming limits on Con-
stitutional rights due to the War on
Drugs and with colossal expendi-
tures going to interdiction, let's
reconsider where we are going with
drug policy, he says. With the
wealth of the bottom 90 percent of
Americans equal to the wealth of
the top 2 percent of Americans,
let's make the rich help out with
higher taxes, says Nader. With our
foreign aid money tied to recipi-
ents' willingness to undergo Inter-
national Monetary Fund-imposed
conditions, let's free these nations
to pay off debts instead of burden-
ing them with destructive "struc-
tural adjustments," says Nader
Repeatedly, Nader attacks in
stitutionsand questions practices that
have been sacredly maintained by the
reigning duopoly. With a 23 percent
child poverty rate in the United States,
a scandalous amount by any measure.
Nader wonders why welfare recipi-
entsare so dernonized. And this at the
same time that the Wall Street journal
estimates that corporate welfare runs
to $140 billion annually
Nader dares to ask such questions
and points them directly at the heart
of Americans. Votes are moral state-
ments, lie is telling us, and (hough
the Greens will not win this year, they
are a force for the future. When ymt
step into the booth a few days from
now and feel giddy at the immense
power in your hands, write in Ralph
Nader for president and feel good
about what you are flushing away
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