October 25, 2007
Blasphemous Breslin
In response to your editorial (Tuesday 10-23, “Initiative 2 should not be top priority"); Please stop polluting the Kaimin’s pages with your elitist, misinformed, misinterpreted, undeveloped and over-generalized views on current events affecting our college community.
Starting from your first catchy phrase “Blaze up, kids,” you clearly demonstrate one of two things: either you view everyone that disagrees with your opinions as a subordinate, referring to us as kids; or you are misreading or haven’t yet read that Initiative 2 only applies to adults. It’s little mistakes like this that provoke further inspection of your later statements like “the Citizens for Responsible Crime Policy ... made sure everyone thought that people were getting mugged, beaten and otherwise assaulted because police were running around town chasing kids smoking pot.”
Sean, how can you possibly believe the things that you write? Sure CRCP has its own radical beliefs, but I’m very confident in stating that not everyone came to the same conclusion that you are supposing. Most of the people who voted for I-2 did so because they wanted to avoid the court fines and classes that come with being cited for misdemeanor possession of dangerous drugs. Some of I-2’s proponents believe that marijuana should not be classified as a dangerous drug when its fatality count is compared to that of tobacco and alcohol, which the U.S. has labeled as ‘OK’ for consumption. Your thoughts on the whole issue are absurd and obviously incorrect.
If you are so concerned about the unsuccessful causes that Missoula residents care about, why don’t you focus on raising awareness of these issues? Maybe if you wrote an informative article on private recycling companies and offered information leading to a possible plan of action for a county-mandated recycling pick-up and printed it on the hundreds of copies of this newspaper that are produced in a day, you could be one of those activists that pushes for a cause that really matters.
I meant to write to you the same general letter about your Facebook editorial last Tuesday, but this week’s issue of blatantly horrible writing works just as well – until you come up with an idea that might add to the community’s welfare, stop using your editorials to complain about the things that you have no control over, and be more careful about what you write (Try using facts instead of catchy phrases.)
Luke Juras
sophomore, Music Education
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