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September 26th, 2007 issue

Gore’s a clown

I happen to find Al Bore and his sideshow followers to be clowns, not Czech President Václav Klaus (“U.S. group spotlights Klaus,” News, Sept. 19–25). Actually, seeing Klaus’ interviews and the follow-up stories in The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily and The Financial Times, among others, I found him articulate, intelligent, well-versed and someone who obviously shows his economic background. In short, he rationally shows why the global warming crowd was irrationally hysterical.
Randy Kasal
Urbandale, Iowa, U.S.A.
Charge for cars
It’s about time they did something like this (“Parking costs vex landlords,” News, Sept. 12–18). There are way too many cars in the city center. When are they going to start charging people to drive in the city center, that’s what I want to know? The government wants to have a “green” Olympics. First, they need to get rid of the brown city center.
Dan Padolsky
Prague
 
History, revisited
It is amazing how many readers are ready to believe everything bad when it comes to speaking about the Germans.
Hate is a bad master and blinds its slaves to the truth.
Only this month, in the town of Krnov, a stone was laid in remembrance of innocent victims who died in the Czech concentration camps during the years 1945–46.
Up till today, there are many misled Czechs who deny that their own country was involved in such atrocities.
Anybody demanding that others look history “squarely in the eye” should get to know the facts first. Most governments I know manipulate historical facts to place their own countries in a favorable light.
Perhaps I was lucky being born in Britain and living there during World War II.
Others of my family were born in parts of Austria taken over by Czechoslovakia and in German areas confiscated by Poland. They were treated brutally, robbed of all possessions and deported from their homelands.
It is not the nationality of a person that counts, but what he does and says.
Being German under Hitler’s rule would only be credible if we could choose the land we wanted to be born in and knew in advance what is going to happen.
I would certainly not wish to be blamed for all the crimes committed by the British governments.
I am sure many U.S. citizens think the same way about their current president.
Kenneth L. Ingle
Bielefeld, Germany


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