Editor,
We are in another election for mayor, and I hear again candidates pushing the emotional hot button issue of crime to attract votes.
But, I have not heard any of the candidates say anything about the largest criminal gang operating the city, and hope they will before the election is over.
The New York Times magazine ran a major story on Aug. 5 that included quotes from men in Albuquerque who are building weapons to place in space in violation of several international treaties.
The laser weapons and killer satellites being designed here in our city at Kirtland Air Force Base are to take the arms race in orbit and make the sanctuary of space a domain of private sector American corporations.
They have boldly declared the goal of grabbing the high ground of space to prevent the global community from having equal access to explore and use the next frontier.
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The Albuquerque Journal and The Albuquerque Tribune have both run stories on the various projects at Kirtland to militarize space. It is no secret what The New York Times has reported so boldly. If a smuggling operation were discovered in the city, or a methamphetamine lab or a marijuana factory, the mayoral candidates each one would stage press conferences to demand immediate police action.
But if the same criminal and immoral activity is being done at a military base behind security fences there is silence.
Why is this?
After World War Two the world held war crime trials for Germany and Japan, which were condemned for atrocities such as the holocaust against Jews, gypsies and others in Europe. Everyone has asked since then why did the German and Japanese people allow their military-industrial complex to create such horrible war weapons and crimes against humanity? Why did not people speak out?
History has now put us in that same seat.
Will history judge our citizens, church leaders, community leaders and politicians the same for not speaking out to stop the global war in space being researched and even controlled from our city?
Even President Eisenhower, in his 1961 Farewell Address, warned us of this eventuality, and President Kennedy, who wanted to step back from the arms race, may have run afoul of the same forces.
I would like to hear from our mayoral candidates on how they plan to handle the large criminal gang operating at Kirtland Air Force Base.
Bob Anderson,
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