To the Editor:

The anti-capitalists that demonstrated against Exxon/Mobil are anti-profit and anti-everything that made this country a land of opportunity. They are the same people who rioted and destroyed millions of dollars in property during the world trade talks in Seattle a few years ago. All in the name of protecting the third world from American corporate greed.

But by trying to destroy U.S. businesses, they are spread their destructive actions to the third world. U.S. businesses actually help the third world by bringing electricity and clean water, higher paying jobs, a higher standard of living wealth that can be used to clean up third-world environments.

But the radicals are not interested in acknowledging these truths. They don’t fit with their agenda to destroy our way of life.

To the Editor:

The radicals that protested in Dallas this week talk as if they are motivated by their concern for people and the planet. The truth is that what unites this group of radicals is not concern, but hate. They hate freedom—freedom for others, that is. They hate those who disagree with them. They seem to simply hate everything.

Dave Foreman, the founder of Earth First, made this clear when he said, "Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental."

That sure sounds like hate-speech to me. I thought we had laws against that sort of thing.

To the Editor:

While the radicals protesting in Dallas this week fashioned themselves as "anti-capitalists," what they are really upset about is capitalists other than themselves making profits.

It seems that being "green" these days is the source of a lot of wealth for backers of the environmental movement. Greenpeace, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ethanol producers and others all stand to make millions if they can put traditional businesses out of work.

So they help fund out-of-work radicals to come beat up on companies like Exxon-Mobil. Not that we should feel sorry for Exxon-Mobil—they can take care of themselves. But we shouldn’t buy the story that these radicals are trying to sell us—all in the name of lining their own wallets.

To the Editor:

Texans have built an economy that would stand as the eleventh largest in the world if we were an independent nation—larger than that of Russia. And we’ve done this while maintaining beautiful scenic areas, parks and landscape teaming with wildlife and great for recreation. Our cities are also getting cleaner. Our air is cleaner today than it has been for the last twenty-five years.

So why did the radical environmentalists protest against the American way of life and Exxon-Mobil this week?

Good question.