Gore earned Nobel Peace Prize
In “Gore and his lying “˜Truth’ unfit for Nobel Peace Prize,” (Viewpoint, Oct. 18) Katie Strickland alleges that Al Gore consciously falsified statistics used in “An Inconvenient Truth” and therefore did not deserve to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
This unfounded attack uses only celebrities’ lifestyles (Angelina Jolie?) and the groundless opinion that Gore’s film is “slick” to push its argument onto readers.
Al Gore absolutely deserved the peace prize.
Strickland’s argument concerning the contradictions between the predictions of Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change think tank does not, in any way, prove that Gore has exaggerated the truth.
The panel uses conservative methods of scientific consensus to develop its data, and articles in prestigious scientific scholarly journals such as Nature and Science support Gore’s larger worst-case scenario claims.
No one has worked harder to raise awareness on the issue of global warming than Al Gore.
He has transformed the neglected cause into one of the most widely recognized issues in world politics. And he has created a political dialogue decades before other politicians were even thinking about the subject.
Perhaps Strickland should stop counting how many times Gore’s name makes newspaper headlines. Instead she should try to learn something from his work toward saving the world.
Brandon Harrison
Third-year, history
Director of Media Relations, Bruin Democrats
Bruin Republicans event will inform
The editorial “Awareness week may hurt more than it helps” (Viewpoint, Oct. 22) contained commentary by the Daily Bruin Editorial Board about Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. Except the editorial didn’t bear any relation to the actual week planned at UCLA.
First, Bruin Republicans has never attempted, and will not attempt, to limit another group. The purpose of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is just that, to raise awareness.
We are not, as the article suggests, attempting to “preemptively pigeonhole a normal student group” but rather we are drawing attention to the Muslim Student Association, a group that has gone on record supporting terrorist groups such as Hamas, has brought pro-Hamas speakers to campus, and has printed a cover of their Al-Talib magazine with a picture of Osama bin Laden, where they branded him a “freedom-fighter.”
These facts, in addition to the institutional ties of the Muslim Student Association to terror will be outlined by journalist Joe Kaufman at the Thursday event in Moore 100 at 7 p.m.
To call a group like this a victimized minority is insulting to the true victims of this world.
As for having a panel, the views of the Muslim Student Association and groups like them are regularly disseminated on campus. For once, those opposed to terrorism and the oppressive policies that are supported by these groups are speaking out.
For the record, we did invite the Council on American-Islamic Relations to a panel on the topic.
My calls and messages to their director, Hussam Ayloush, were not returned.
The editorial board said that we are coming out too aggressively in our stances.
Bruin Republicans is wholly unapologetic in the aggressiveness of its stance against oppression and totalitarianism and is in support of freedom.
David Lazar, Graduate student, economics
Chairman, Bruin Republicans