COSMIC ENDINGS SINCE 1992 ILLUSTRATION BY COREY YAZZIE VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 51 | DECEMBER 19, 2019-JANUARY 1, 2020 | FREE [ 2] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 19, 2019-JANUARY 1, 2020 DECEMBER 19, 2019-JANUARY 1, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] alibi VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 51 | DECEMBER 19, 2019-JANUARY 1, 2020 Email letters, including author’s name, mailing address and daytime phone number to [email protected]. Letters can also be mailed to P.O. Box 81, EDITORIAL Albuquerque, N.M., 87103. Letters—including comments posted on alibi.com—may be published in any medium and edited for length and clarity; owing to MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: the volume of correspondence, we regrettably can’t respond to every letter. Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: August March (ext. 245) [email protected] by August March Council meetings and rowdy bars, where we Rights Movement gained momentum and was FOOD EDITOR: Here is a selection of our favorite letters from have long banned guns. Just make sure the actually signed into law (Civil Rights Act of Dan Pennington (Ext. 255) [email protected] ARTS AND LIT.EDITOR: 2019, in no particular order, by Weekly Alibi councilors go through the metal detectors with 1964) by President Johnson. But just because a Clarke Condé (Ext. 239) [email protected] News Editor August March. the rest of us. law is made doesn’t mean people actually COPY EDITOR: Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] As to “Lock Up” requirements: Why do I follow it. CALENDARS EDITOR: never see this suggested as to automobiles? Many injustices are still being done against Ashli Kesali [email protected] Municipal Wells Stolen cars are just as big a threat to public the underprivileged here, and it has only STAFF WRITER: Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] Uncontaminated safety as stolen guns. There would be less gotten worse under the present administration, SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: whose focus seems to be for the 1 percent , Dear Alibi threat of theft of guns from cars if there were Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] fewer places where lawful CCW holders were extremely wealthy and white class. So really, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: The July 25 Kirtland fuel spill article by Robin Babb, Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, Samantha there is no common belief here that all men August March [v28 i30] quotes a nevertheless prohibited from carrying. This Carrillo, Desmond Fox, Maggie Grimason, Steven Luthy, and women are created equal. That is in your Hosho McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie representative of the SouthWest Organizing requires leaving the weapon in the car. idealistic mind, which is not a bad thing— Project, Juan Reynosa, who refers to a “toxic I have only seen one government program PRODUCTION that actually and significantly reduced gun except that you see everything in black and ART DIRECTOR: plume of jet fuel in our water supply.” Mr. Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] white, or maybe red, white, and blue. Reynosa goes on to say that SWOP’s violence. ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: In the early ’90s, Richmond, Va. was a The reality is that people have been Corey Yazzie [email protected] community garden is “using city well water” GRAPHIC DESIGNER: kneeling during National Anthems to show and that “some members of the community shooting gallery. Gang bangers were doing Xanthe Miller [email protected] that we have a lot of problems here at home STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: wonder if we’re raising crops that are going to drivebys that left more noncombatants dead that need to be addressed, with no disrespect to Eric Williams [email protected] have poison in them.” than rival gang bangers.The local cops and CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: the flag itself. Why, don’t you kneel to pray to The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water prosecutors got together with the federal Max Cannon, Kayla Church, Michael Ellis, Nate Hewitt, prosecutors and federal judges, forming Project the God that you think is common to all here? Alyssa Metoyer, Ryan North, Mike Organisciak, Utility Authority, which operates the Jen Sorensen We allow freedom of religion here; that’s what municipal wells serving Albuquerque and Exile. This program not only had the backing makes this country great. SALES Bernalillo County, wishes to reassure Mr. of the normal antigun groups, but also the SALES DIRECTOR: One of those current problems is our Reynosa and other concerned members of the NRA, which gave at least two $100,000 Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] borders that were once open to the world are ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: community that no Water Authority wells contributions to help fund it. It resulted in as now being closed (Mexican border) under the Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] have been affected by the fuel spill. The jet 50 percent reduction in gun homicides (and John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] pretense that only criminals are coming here. fuel plume lies to the southwest of our nearest even more for noncombatants) in one year, EVENT AND MARKETING COORDINATOR Mostly, they are families trying to escape the Madeline MacKenzie [email protected] well field, and sentinel wells between the and continuing. nightmares that their countries have become ADMINISTRATION leading edge of the plume and the nearest What was the program? Every time a from corrupt governments, supported by the PUBLISHER: Water Authority well would provide ample convicted felon was caught in possession of a Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] USA, in Central and South America, as well as warning before contamination of any of our firearm, he was taken to federal court to be ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: gangs that commit crimes, for the flow of drugs Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] wells occurred. We also sample and test the tried and sentenced under existing federal law, and guns between our country and theirs. And CONTROLLER: drinking water wells nearest to the plume on a providing a minimum sentence of at least 5 Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] we don’t even have enough immigrant workers monthly basis to ensure that the water remains years. It was also arranged that this prison time ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: be served in a federal prison as far away from to harvest crops in the US anymore, and Madeline MacKenzie (ext. 233) [email protected] safe to drink. Should any drinking water wells SYSTEMS MANAGER: Americans won’t do it because it’s “peasant face an imminent threat of contamination, we Richmond as available. If Freddy Felon missed Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] labor.” would of course cease to use them before his mommy—great! That was the idea. This WEB MONKEY: program was widely publicized, giving Freddy Many European countries would argue that John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] allowing jet fuel constituents into the water OWNERS: this is the greatest country in the world. Many supply. fair warning. It made gun carrying by felons Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott Native Americans would tell you that this land The Water Authority and its governing extremely unfashionable. has been taken from them by force. We don’t CIRCULATION board have been working diligently with the The same program could work here, if law CIRCULATION MANAGER: even stand united with the rest of the world on Air Force and with the New Mexico enforcement and courts have the huevos to do Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] climate change. Do I have to say it: Dissent is CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: Environment Department to ensure that no it. Ken McDaniel patriotic, or we would probably still be a Darrell Sparks [email protected] municipal wells become contaminated as a Rio Rancho territory of England. INFORMATION result of the fuel spill. Certainly some wells are If you look at the Constitution, the First PRINTER: under threat, but we are hopeful that ongoing The Santa Fe New Mexican Amendment prevents our government from cleanup efforts will completely eliminate the You Gotta Keep ’Em IN LOVING MEMORY: officially recognizing or favoring any religion. Doug Albin, Martin Candelaria, Michael Henningsen, possibility of contamination. Albuquerque’s Separated That is the reason the Ten Commandments Gretchen Hudson, Eric Johnson, Greg Medara, Chico water supply, meanwhile, continues to meet all Ramirez, Mina Yamashita, Ernest Montoya (Judeo-Christian) are not allowed in public federal standards for safe drinking water and Dear Alibi, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER: buildings. 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