The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 13

THE DAILY Sentinel I i Tuesday, February 21, 995 inside: Sports Prep Pros Recreation Scoreboard Section Alleged chiM abductor aided by delay 9i Dana Nunn' Daily Sentinel 5-day wait to obtain warrant too long, Mclnnis says no law enforcement officials have visited Hardys parents in the course of thelnvestigation. As far as 1 know, nobody has talked to them face-to-face or even gone over tosee if hes sitting in their living room, Pearson said. It took at least five working days to get a federal arrest warrant for the man believed to have abducted his 3- No one at.fhe Grand Junction Police Department or at the Grand year-old daughter from Grand Junction. That delay might have allowed ReJdan Hardy to get out of the country with Emilie Pearson, said 3rd Congressman Scott would return the girl Monday night. But that day, Joanne got a call from Hardys wife in Phoenix, who said Hardy had called her and told her he had taken the child.

It was Friday, Feb. 3, before a federal warrant was issued for Hardy and Feb. 6 before that warrant was signed by a judge, Charlie Pearson said. You know how we got the FBI to move on it? Scott Mclnnis, he said. "It doesn't happen like it does on television where these guys go out and investigate for leads.

Pearson said he and his wife are and thats a problem," Mclnnis said. "This guy got a lot of miles on us before we were able to get a federal warrant and that was with heavy congressional involvement. The amount of time it took to get a federal warrant is just one of the frustrations with law enforcement that Emilies mother and stepfather, Joanne and Charlie Pearson, say they are experiencing as they search for the girl. The Pearsons said they believe Emilie was abducted by Hardy, her biological father, on Jan. 29.

Hardy picked up Emilie for a visit that Sunday morning and said he frustrated with the FBI and the Grand Junction Police Department We havent gotten any explanation for anything from anybody Nobody contacts us or lets us know anything. As far as we know, no one is doing anything. They said we were a pain in the butt, too unreasonable, he said. Our 3-year-old is missing. Its been a whole week since we heard from the Grand Junction police or the FBI.

Were in our fourth week now and I dont know anything thats happened. The family has spent about $10,000 so far in its own investigation, Pearson said. He and his brother-in-law spent four days in Phoenix talking to former co-workers and friends of Hardy. Hardy is from Canada, so the Pearsons are planning a trip there to look for Emilie and to talk to Hardys family and friends. We dont know that hes there.

Nobody knows, Pearson said. He said he talked with officials at the Canadian registry for missing children on Monday and learned the registry wasnt contacted by Grand Junction police until Feb. 10. He said that to his knowledge, Junction office of the FBI could be reached for Comment about the Pearson case.3 The community has been absolutely, unbelievably good to us, but this thing isnt over, Pearson said. Emilie District Mclnnis.

"Im convinced he easily crossed the borders of this country and went into Canada or Mexico, I think everybody goes back to everyday life. Life goes on, but ours isnt. Thats what happens with these cases. They get set off to the side and forgotten. IBtouunidL ffir IEmr Mclnnis: 1st 50 days most productive of modem Congress t4f'; hh 'i 'i Dana Nunn Daily Sentinel The first 50 days of the 104th Congress have been marked with a flurry of activity and have been the most pro- nW ductive first 50 days of any U.S.

Congress in recent histoiy, said 3rd District Congress-man Scott Mclnnis, R-Grand Junction. Weve con ment. 4 veto for the president. National security restoration. Elimination of unfunded mandates.

Crime-fighting legislation. A bill requiring Congress to abide by the same laws as everyone else. Accountable congressional reform. Mclnnis said he thinks the most significant step taken was passage of the balanced budget amendment that is now being considered by the Senate. This is more than an accounting device, so some bureaucrats in Washington feel better, Mclnnis said.

Its abouf our kids and their futures and about putting an end to the immoral practice of piling the national debt on our foture generations. Families in Colorado must balance their budgets and Congress should have to balance its budget. Mclhnls ducted more committee hearings, held more votes and debated the issues longer and harder than any Congress in more than a decade. Weve made real progress on the Contract with America and the 10 measures we pledged to bring to a vote, Mclnnis said Monday. Measures that have been passed by the U.S.

House of Representatives include: A balanced budget amend Rescuers critical of search effort Dean HumphrayDaily Sentinel Prescott, 13; Summer McElley, 13; Kelly Watson, 14; Bfldget Ford, 14; Cody Butters, 13; and Amy Sorrells, 14. Six Mount Garfield Middle School eighth-graders know where they are going this summer to Europe. From left are Rachel Associated Press Mtiiint Garfield girls scramble to pay for summer trip Watson said she spends her time figuring ways to raise money. Work has replaced some fun times. Dressing up to visit businesses to talk has replaced Simple shopping.

The efforts will pay off as they tour the likes of Westminster Abbey and the Sistine Chapel, Lewis said. or injured or killed and there was nobody in there? said Steve Crockett, the departments emergency management coordinator. But eight-year Mountain Rescue member John Galvin said several volunteers were willing to launch a search Tuesday. Its not fearch and recoveiy. Its search and rescue, Galvin said.

(Hamilton) had well over a few hours (of air). This is probably the worst-handled rescue Ive ever been a pari of. Pitkin County Coroner Bud Glis-mann said Hamilton could have lived until Thursday, but thats not the issue here. The issue is, Do we risk more lives? Everybody feels particularly bad for this, but youve got to support Bob and Crockett Nobody else got hurt ASPEN A man who died in an avalanche last week might have been saved if a search had been quicker and better organized, members of Mountain Rescue Aspen said. Doug Hamilton, 26, suffocated after his tepee wa buried under 8 to 10 feet of snow last Tuesday.

Rescue workers found his body after less than three hours of digging Thursday the first day they searched for Hamilton. Rescue volunteers were not allowed to begin their search Tuesday because Sheriff Bob Braudis said extreme avalanche conditions would have put more people in danger. How would you feel if we sent people in there and they got hurt C. Patrick Ctaaiy 4' Dally Sentinel -W. Several eighth-grade boy approached social studies teacher Bill Lewis about traveling to.

Europe with an organized tour this summer. Thats -after they discovered six Mount Sarfield Middle School girls agreed to raise -1 ie money to travel with Lewis from London to Rome for 12 days in early Mo boys committed last October to raising the $24100 for the trip. Now it is too late. 1 Evan the girls have found a different side of life while hying to raise the money. Kelly Watson, 14, said she can only listen as her friends describe recently purchased CDs and outfits.

Lewis last went in the early 1070s with a backpack and a EurailPass as companions. He said he looks forward to seeing how his students will view first-hand the lessons of this past school year. Look at how much we have modified soci: ety, Sorrells said about America. All we-think about is things getting better so we could have life easier. They still have cobblestone streets.

Lewis said he hopes the trip will instill a sense of tradition that European culture has maintained. Their days will be structured to keep moving from one site to the next with lunchtime the only time the students can a meal for themselves. Amy Sorrells, 14, said her mother he to go now so she might have the desire to go again. My mom said if she went a long time ago, she would want to go over again, Sorrells said. Only one of the six has relatives who have visited Europe.

Sorrells has yet to see an ocean. Censors believe only they should have right of free speech Restriction of free thought and free speech te the most dangerous of all subversions. It te the one un-American act that eould most easily defeat us. Most censorship involves the written word, but sculpture, painting, morals, political ideas and religious beliefs are feeling the heavy hand. The list of books that have been' Because of their wisdom and vision and good common sense, we have in this country the legal freedom to explore ideas and speak as we choose.

They had the vision to see that America would become a nation of diverse peoples with different ideas and beliefs, and that we would have to tolerate other peoples ideas. The trouble is, we still have people trying to impose their individual values on the rest of us. They believe that they alone should have the right of free speech. They are the Censors. As a lifelong civil libertarian, my files and my brain me overflowing with material I have acquired over years of battles mmmmmm against attempted censorship.

I agree with George Bernard Shaw, who said, Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. It te happening today ia the women's clinics. Censorship destroys the freedom of the mind. Intellectual freedom distinguishes the human from all and poor spelling. A The Censor says we must protect our children.

Certainly we must Thats what parents are for. We have strong child pornography lafa in Colorado and they are strenuously enforced. But should all literature, all ideas, all creativity be aimed at satisfying the 1 0-year-old reader? Clare Boothe Luce suggests that Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there The Censor wants to censor only that with which he disagrees. But he forgets that If one person loses the right to speak, eventually we all will lose it The majority has little need for protection. It 1s the nonconformists who are at risk and for whom civil lib-' erties offer a defense against efforts of the majority to limit the speech and actions of those it finds objectionable.

Henry Steele Commager said: The feet te that censorship defeats its own purpose, tot it creates, hi the end, the kind iff society that te incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long ran it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. 1 From the beginning of recorded history, some people have been trying to impose their individual values on what others can think and say. Hie writings of Homer and Aristophanes were suppressed in Greece in the fourth century. Socrates drank the hemlock because he was corrupting the young with ideu of freedom.

Dantes Divine Comedy was publicly burned in Italy, and Galileo was forced to recant on his knees the thesis that the planets revolve around the sun. The 55 men who sat down together in the City of Brotherly Love to construct a new nation thought they could make it different here. Every me of them had deeply held ideas iff how a new baby country should be run, but they all shared a vision of freedom from oppression. After much shouting and arguing and compromising, these highly disparate forefathers of ours came up with a set of rules, called the Constitution of the United States. They realized that it want going to work unless certain inalienable rights were protected, so they included the Bill of Rights, (hoe of those guaranteed that, Hie Congress shall make no la abridging the freedom of speech.

HENRIETTA HAY banned somewhere includes practically all literature. It includes such titles as Oliver Twist, Huckleberry Finn," I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, American Heritage Dictionary, Lord of the Hies," Diary iff Anne Frank, Tartan, certain translations of The Bible, The Grapes of Mother Goose," Woman la the Mists: The story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas" and on and on and on. Certainly there are lots of bad books, but we dont have to read them. My idea of a bad book may well he someone elses favorite. The Constitution protects all speech, coarse as well as fine, vulgarity as other forms of life.

Justice William Douglas said: well as elegance. It even protects lousy grammar.