LETTERS
H.P. council challenged to stand against war
The Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War and the Rutgers Walkout Coalition plan to bring a resolution against the Iraq War, similar to the to one passed recently by New Brunswick, to the Highland Park Borough Council meeting on Tuesday, July 15 at 7 PM.
Members of the groups plan to attend to discuss the resolution and issues related to the court case of three Rutgers students who were cited for disorderly conduct by New Brunswick police, following a March 27th Walkout Against the War and protest march.
The Walkout brought together about 600 Rutgers students and supporters for a rally and a march of about 300 through the streets of downtown New Brunswick and on Route 18. For the second year in a row, the protest yielded no injuries, arrests, or property damage, yet the New Brunswick Police Department is charging the three students with "recklessly creating … a hazardous or physically dangerous condition by an act which serves no legitimate purpose."
The Walkout Coalition has initiated a petition demanding all charges against the Rutgers 3 to be immediately dropped. To date, over 1,500 people from across the country have signed the on-line petition including Noam Chomsky; Sue Niederer, mother of Rutgers alumnus Lt. Seth Dvorin, who was killed on March 3, 2004; and Colonel Ann Wright, a 16 year diplomat who helped reopen the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan but resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war.
For more information and updates, go to Rutgerswalkoutcoalition.blogspot.com.
-- Karina Wilkinson
Highland Park
I recently read the article “Lyme Disease Advice on the Web is Enough to Tick You Off.” I found the article to [be] loaded with inaccuracies and misinformation. The author presents numerous ideas which are controverted by scientific studies. There are too many to unpack in a short letter. I suggest that your readers and the author see the new documentary "Under Our Skin" and read Pamela Weintraub’s new book Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Disease Epidemic.
My daughter was treated with a standard course of antibiotics after a tick bite and fever. It took us two years and many tests and doctors to determine that she had a tick-borne co-infection called babeosis and that she still had Lyme. She’s now being treated for the last 16 months and is significantly better. The tick that bit her was on her chin and attached less than 12 hours. Her diagnosis was a clinical one and her bloodwork only later showed positive results.
LeMoon’s article downplayed the risks and difficulties faced by those living in lyme endemic areas.
-- March S. Gallagher, Esq.
Saugerties, New York