Letter: Losing faith in dishonest government

Friday, May 18, 2001 | 10:11 a.m.

If the government's failure to provide Timothy McVeigh's defense team important documents was truly an oversight, it points to its incompetence. If it was a deliberate effort, it points to its duplicity.

Too many times in the past few years we have come to learn that the government has withheld evidence, misrepresented its involvement in various activities or flat out lied.

Can we really entrust decisions about Yucca Mountain to government bureaucrats? Can anyone really believe that high-level nuclear waste can be safely buried for 10,000 years? Can anyone really believe that high-level nuclear waste can be safely transported through the country for 20 years?

It is supposed to be "of the people, by the people and for the people." I don't believe that anymore. I think many others share my view. That's why people don't vote anymore -- they have lost faith in the integrity of our leaders and our institutions.

BARRY E. JACOBS

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