Public Pulse

June 18th, 2009

Grateful Reader

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Thank you so much, Mr. Davis, for allowing me to run an ad for a job wanted. The first day it appeared in The Paper I got a phone call and was hired. The lady who hired me is the sister of Mr. DeJong, whom you recently did a cover story about. While this is a test run, I think it’s going to work out very well and will likely become a permanent job. Thank you again for offering free classifieds for those who are looking for work.

/s/Judy Blomski
Escondido

Disagrees With Armenian Genocide Cover Story

I have been shockingly following through the article you printed about the Armenian Genocide by Lyle E. Davis on April 30, 2009 and the comments regarding this article. It seems like nobody is responsible for what they are writing at all!

I am an American and I have Turkish roots. My 6th grader was harassed at his school because of this article. My grand-grand father, murdered at the age of 86, was one of the thousands of victims of the Armenian crusaders in Mamahatun in 1916.

Crime of 'genocide' is a serious accusation for a government and its entire nation. If we are accusing a state, a government and its people by committing "genocide" which is an inhuman crime, 'premeditation' is one of the absolutely necessary elements of this offense and has to be proved. Otherwise accusation becomes lie and turns to an inhuman slander. On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide and the Holocaust had ended. On, November 30, 1945, U.S. Military Tribunal in Nuremberg had opened the case and finalized the lawsuit in October 1, 1946. In less than two years almost all the war criminals were executed. IF THEY HAVE factual and actual EVIDENCE why they apply extreme political pressure on Turkish government to a FORCED CONFESSION?

Those people were not targeted for their ethnicity or race or religion. The event took place at the time of World War I, one of the bloodiest war in the world history, by mid-1919. Ottoman Empire was in the middle of WWI, was fighting in around tens of battles, and was occupied from East to Western border, from South to Northern border of its land. Armenian people were citizens of Ottoman Empire. During WWI, some of the Armenian citizens destroyed numerous of Muslim Turkish and Kurdish villages in the Eastern Anatolia. They killed, burned, tortured, raped, murdered civilian Turkish residents - almost all of them were women, elder people, children, babies and other people who could not go for fight in the war- of those villages. My grand-grandfather was one of their victims at the age of 86 in Mamahatun. They burned him.

Yes, it forced some of the Armenian citizens of Empire in Eastern Anatolia to immigrate and settle in another places, because it had to. Turks had brought prosperity, generosity, human rights, welfare and peace to Anatolia, Middle East, Balkans and a part of Europe for over 600 years. They had guarded holy places of Christianity and Judaism from each other's attacks, Palestine, minorities and especially Jewish people, etc.

How can we HELP THOSE who cannot deal with their anger, hate and harassment against MUSLIMS? I do not think anybody can help them.

/s/Sue Sukran Altintas
Encinitas, CA.

A Baha’i Friend

Gob bless Lyle Davis for his excellent coverage of the Baha'i Faith and particularly, the imprisoned Iranian Baha'is.

/s/Andrea Davidson, Baha’i
Sarasota, FL

A Correction

Dear Editor, I just wanted to tell you that in my article about “The San Marcos Historical Society is Moving” that you so graciously printed in The Paper, I inadvertently labeled the two historical houses (The Cox House and The Bidwell House) in the wrong order; they should be in the opposite order of how I labeled them. Also, although the Cox House was named for the Cox family, the home had many owners over the years. Wade H. Cox was not the original owner of the home, built in 1888. Mr. Cox purchased the house in 1923. I apologize for any confusion.

/s/Lisa Duclo
San Marcos, Ca.

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