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Question for do-gooders
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Published: November 3, 2009
A question for all the liberal do-gooders who have so adamantly opposed the death penalty: How do you like the idea of 27 rapists and murderers waltzing back into your neighborhoods? According to the Journal article "Experts: Inmates will be set free" (Oct. 29), many of these convicts were initially sentenced to death.
For years the anti-death-penalty crowd has told us how society is protected by locking up these miscreants, how unnecessary the death penalty is, how much cheaper it is to incarcerate the guilty. So now we have fed, clothed and guarded 27 scumbags for over 30 years with free medical care to boot! Look at the money we've saved!
I have to laugh when an ivory tower academic from Wake Forest University, law professor Carol Turowski, lectures the feeble-minded public, "we are a nation of laws, not of men and women ..." Would she mind receiving mail from a good-conduct Unabomber? Or would she mind a good-conduct Charles Manson moving in next door?
Presumably Blanche Taylor Moore is not eligible for these reductions-in-sentence. I would hate to find her serving cupcakes at Dewey's.
HARRY R. COOKE
Winston-Salem
Protecting religious freedom
I would like to respond to the Oct. 26 letter "What would Jesus do?" criticizing money spent to try and maintain religious freedom and freedom of speech in Winston-Salem. The writer believes that Jesus would automatically want all that money given to the poor.
I disagree. Many Scriptures come to my mind, but especially John 12. Mary has brought an expensive ointment and is using it to wash Jesus' feet. Judas Iscariot asks, "Why was not this ointment sold for three-hundred pence and given to the poor?"
In his response, Jesus says to let her alone and that you always have the poor with you.
I admire our preachers who are working to protect our religious freedoms.
CARLA HARKER
Winston-Salem
Laugh out loud
I laugh out loud every time I hear executives at failing banks and other bailed-out companies talk about needing bonus pay to "retain talent." How much talent does it take to lose $100 billion? Inquiring minds want to know.
MICHAEL ELLIS
Winston-Salem
Editor's note:
The Oct. 30 letter "An opportunity" written by Anne D. Rigby ran without acknowledgement that she is the secretary of the Senior Democrats, an auxiliary of the Forsyth County Democratic Party. She is a resident of the Northwest Ward.
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