Liberals are all wet

To the Editor:

I have not written in a long time but the letters today are causing me to pen another letter to you.

I feel I must respond to your raging liberals, Christensen and Toussaint.

Mr. Christensen, open your eyes. The proposals for Social Security changes do nothing more than give workers control over their accounts. What is wrong with this?

Don't you trust the working Americans? From what I understand workers will not be able to "play" the market but will have to choose from a short list of approved investment. This is much like the current federal retirement system. If a worker should die before reaching retirement age, his survivors would at least get back his "fund" where now the family is fortunate to receive $255.

Southern Illinois former coal miners, listen to this announcement. People of the same ilk as Senators Obama and Durbin are what closed your coal mines and took away your good paying jobs. These are the people that foster the so called "clean air act" upon this nation and closed Southern Illinois mines. But still loyal "Democrats" go to the polls every two or six years and send this same ilk back to Washington. I will never understand this. And now Laurel wants to reward people who prevent drilling in an area that was specifically set aside for oil exploration.

Harry C. Boyd, Marion

Bean has to go

To the Editor:

My eyes were edged with tears as I read Caleb Hale's article in the Southern which exposed Southern Illinois University at Carbondale history ("His-Story") Professor Jonathan Bean as a racist hate-mongering phallocrat.

Your readers know that while Professor Jonathan Bean (allegedly) uses the teaching of Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., he also used an optional handout which discussed in incident that "recounted a series of 71 murders perpetrated by a group of black men against white civilians in San Francisco between 1972." The uses of these kinds of facts have no place in academia. I was horrified to see the Southern was in on his deliberately misspelling "Malcom X" (sic) as yet another means of covert oppression. Caleb Hale-Matthew Hale. Coincidence? I doubt it.

As a former student, I was aghast to learn that my alma mater has evidently become a haven for dogmatic hate preachers who us their "teaching" positions to indoctrinate unsuspecting students with the politics of racism, using taxpayer dollars.

Evidently, this "David Duke with a PhD." Will suffer no professional discipline either! He will no doubt cry first amendment violation and academic freedom, but sometimes the feelings of one or two must trump the education of many.

Clearly, he must go. It is incumbent on the university end their relationship with this suit-and-tied Klansman. I would also like to see local, state and federal law enforcement intercede and determine if he could be brought up on charges and incarcerated for such reckless insensitivity.

C.L. Stratton, Springfield