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Letters... CONTINUED FROM PAGE A:7 Elrick (Feb. 24): Many people believe that President Bush asked the NSA to carry out lawfulwarrantless searches. Many warrantless searches are within the law. The searches carried out by the Government in 1972 that were reviewed in the Keith case, and were the reason for enactment of FISA were called "domestic searches"or "domestic spying." The column refers to the NSA intercepts as "domestic spying." Abraham Lincoln once asked one of his aides, "If you call a donkey's tail a leg, how many legs does he have?" The aide replied: "Five." Lincoln said: "No, only four. Calling his tail a leg doesn't make it one." These callswere not domes- tic anymore than aflight from Washington, D.C.to London is a"domestic flight."They were international. These types of international communica- tions have been intercepted for security reasons by the government since at least the 1930s. All searches are not "un- reasonable." A reasonable search is not prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.Only "unreasonable searches" are prohibited. If the President has a power, only a Constitu- tional Amendment may take it away. Congress may not diminish his powers by pass- ing a law such as FISA. In the 1972 Keith case, the court said searches lookingfor evidence of domestic subver- sion required awarrant. But it added,specifically, that it was not decidingwhether warrant- less searches for foreign intel- ligencewouldbe treated inthe same way.Since then, four US Circuit Courtsof Appeal have held that warrantlesssearches for foreign intelligence are not prohibited by the Fourth Amendment. It seemsto me that an opin- ion piece based onthe premise that the President violated the law by these searches should at least await a court determination that they were in fact unlawful. Wallace E. Brand Vineyard Haven Remembering Jeannette Bowes I am just received the sad news of the passing of a great lady. For myself and my family, Jeannette Bowes hasbeen the First Lady of Barnstable for a long time. Her caring, hard work, and no-nonsense atti- tude, along with the uncanny knack to accomplish tasks no one else could, were just some of her many strengths. Like manyothers,she extended her gracious hand of friendship to our familyand we willmissher thoughtful cards. Jeannette , we love you and we miss you. Jim Munafo and family Hyannis Smart or Dumb? The split rate tax rate transfers the cost of public services (schools (mostly) from those who use them to those that don't use them. The towns across Cape Cod enjoy low tax rates because of non-resident real estate property owners. I fully support the costs of funding public services, especially schools. I plan to retire to my "non-resident" home in five years and will continue to support the education of our school children. Education is the foundation of our success as a state and country. It's obvious that our Town Council members missed the history lessons on "Taxation without represen- tation" and Economics 101. Our Town Council represen- tatives are setting them- selves up for a "Barnstable Tea Party." To answer my question, I think "Dumb". John Conant Centerville Morality and the death penalty An interesting recent news item was that California twice had to postpone an execution due to the problem of finding a doctor willingto administer the fatal drugs.Iwonder about the involved doctors'concerns over contributing to a "cruel and usual punishment." Shouldn't their (and our) concern more properly be over the immorality of killing other human beings? Whilethe deathpenalty con- tinuesto maintainthe support of a majority of the public, I predict that by the end of this new century, thoughts on capital punishment will evolve in the same way that those on slavery did in the 19th century and segregation in the 20th. Both of those concepts had the support ofamajority ofthe public and legal standing, but over time came to be seen as civil evils. The supporters of capital punishment are filling the modern equivalent of the supporters of slavery and Jim Crow, which were both legal and supported by many reli- gious institutions, in spite of their inherent immorality. We live in a time when re- spect for the sanctity of life is continually diminishing. This can be seen in a govern- ment that supports the kill- ing of its own citizens at an ever-increasing rate, and the ever more violent "entertain- ments"presented to our youth that demean life and teach them killing skills. It is time that we demand that the sacredness of life be respected; initial action steps should include ending capital punishment and making sure that our youth are removed from the viewingof violent TV, movies and video games. Ralph F. Cahoon Barnstable Bring your columnist to work week In response to Paul Gauvin's column regard- ing the nurses at Cape Cod Hospital: When your cardiac moni- tor alarms or your ventila- tor fails, when your pain is increasing and your trans- fusion needs hanging, or when you need to hear those comforting words ... hope- fully there will be a "service worker" available to you. It would be a learning and more importantly a hum- bling experience for you to spend a day in a RN's shoes. Maybe someone will invite you during "Bring Your Child to Work Week." Robin D. 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