Law enforcement ignoring
real ‘terrorist activity’
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AGR, progressive community
of Asheville impressive
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Local coverage of peace rallies disappointing
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Inmate appreciates subscription donation

Editors, Asheville Global Report,

Please be advised I started receiving the Global Report. I now have the last two issues, thank you so much for answering my request and sponsoring me.

Be assured I’m sharing the Global Report with the other prisoners, in the hopes of getting out the word on the informative information that’s in the paper!

It’s really a shame that guys in prison aren’t doing more, I mean we do have families out there that pay taxes and vote. If the people in prisons take the time to study issues in the world we could pass the information to our family members who may be caught up in their daily affairs to stop and get the right information to change bad conditions.

Once again I thank you, and if I can be of any service to the Global Report in any way please let me know.

Please keep up the good hard work of getting correct data out in the Global Report.

In truth,

Mikail Abdullah
McCormick Correctional Institute
McCormick, South Carolina

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Local coverage of peace rallies disappointing

Editors, Asheville Global Report,

This morning (Feb. 18), the headline news of the Hendersonville Times-News was "March 1 rally to show support for troops." I support these men and women in following their conscience and doing what they need to do to avoid killing innocent people even if it means becoming a conscientious objector. I am sorry that most people join the military for economic reasons and I hope that many of these military personnel educate themselves as to what drives war and why so many people have been killed to support the profits of others. Howard Zinn is a good author to read for this information. The world is too small. War needs to become obsolete. Besides killing people, war sucks for the environment from the production of weapons to bombardment. Oak Ridge, Tennessee is contaminated from the manufacturing of nuclear weapons. And now Afghanistan is contaminated with depleted uranium radioactivity and land mines.

The reason I have a problem with the "Support our Soldiers Event" is that it will be a pro-war-kill-the-sons-of-a-bitches event just like the post 9/11 "support our soldiers" events were. I kept my child out of school the day the Hendersonville Elementary School marched the children down town for the military parade. Things I said then have come true, including legislation to reintroduce the draft. The problem I have with "the support our troops" event being headline news is that the Hendersonville Times-News had absolutely NO coverage of the Feb. 15 peace rally in Asheville even though there were 2,000 people! And there was very little coverage of the demonstration in NYC. I had to go to Common Dreams on the Internet to get even the slightest accurate picture of what happened in NYC. The Times-News is owned by whom? Is it General Electric, one of the biggest military contractors in the world?

I am thankful that WNC has Asheville Global Report, because I can be assured that the next weekly issue will cover the news. It is one of the best global weeklies in the country. That’s why I volunteered for the AGR for a year and that is why I continue to purchase it. Keep up the awesome work!

Lisa Thurman
Hendersonville, North Carolina

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AGR, progressive community
of Asheville impressive

Editors, Asheville Global Report,

Just when I was about to give up on the current conditions in the world, I discovered your publication on a cold Sunday morning at a local coffee shop (Fido’s) in Nashville. You have no idea how much it has meant to me to be able to view such a broad range of information in one grouping. I am going to mail copies of your paper to some friends of mine in other parts of the country in hopes of spreading the truth. Your publication was the impetus for my trip to Washington in January to protest the possible war with Iraq. To my knowledge, there is no similar paper in Nashville. I have visited your city twice and was most impressed with the progressive nature of many of the residents. In truth, I was shocked. I hope you will continue to push your message to other parts of the country. I am an example of the difference you can make.

William Cobb
Nashville, Tennessee

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Law enforcement ignoring
real ‘terrorist activity’

Editors, Asheville Global Report,

I find it an outrage that during a terrorism alert, the most important terrorism target in Western North Carolina was in fact hit and damaged early on Feb. 13. It is an act of shocking negligence that, with millions of dollars and massive new powers, police forces still waste time at the airport or courthouse and are unwilling to protect the Femcare clinic from the ONLY proven, local, and repeated terrorist activity in the region. This shows the police for what they are, a useless waste of resources, and that it is entirely up to us citizens to protect ourselves and our most vital institutions.

Alan Ditmore
Leicester, North Carolina