Feb. 13th's Letters to the Editor

Dear Edi­tor,

A let­ter in the Jan­u­ary 30, 2012 Sen­tinel from a one Denise Jan­ick could not have been bet­ter pre­sented in describ­ing ani­mal abuse and neglect.

I to, have prayed for these crea­tures of God but for many, peace will come only when the last breath is taken from their defense­less bodies.

God will some day pass judge­ment on those that abuse, but that could be a thou­sand years from now.

In the mean­time, there are plenty of peo­ple that can make a dif­fer­ence if they would only work together.

Ms. Jan­ick spoke of many peo­ple in Mor­row County as being uncar­ing about the feel­ings of ani­mals. She’s absolutely right, as the county is rid­dled with abuse, but I believe as much as uncar­ing is the fact most peo­ple are spine­less when it comes to report­ing abuse, which explains why there’s prob­a­bly no more than half a dozen cases a year prosecuted.

For many years I was in a posi­tion of see­ing cases of abuse more hor­rific than could ever be imag­ined. The few that were pros­e­cuted were given the min­i­mum pun­ish­ment, and one in par­tic­u­lar was dis­missed because they friends of the judge. I’ve never known of a max­i­mum sen­tence being imposed on any abuse case.

Leniency by our legal sys­tem is the ani­mals sec­ond worst abuser.

Peo­ple brought before our legal sys­tem for abuse should have to endure men­tal eval­u­a­tions for psy­chopa­thy before their dis­or­der esca­lates. That could save a lot of future despair.

Fail­ure to report abuse and fail­ure to deliver appro­pri­ate pun­ish­ment will only add to the problem.

If peo­ple were more like dogs it would be a bet­ter world, as they are loyal, friends for life, won’t cheat or lie, and most forgiving.

All they need in return is atten­tion to their well being and the loy­alty they so freely give.

Life with­out love is no life at all.

Hol­lis Eastep, Mt. Gilead

Dear Edi­tor,

I’m sure glad to see the news reports of Sher­iff Richard Mack, and how edu­ca­tion­ally sup­ported by the “Sup­port Your Local Police: and Keep Them Inde­pen­dent” com­mit­tees of The John Birch Soci­ety. This is a pro­gram to speak out against fed­eral inter­ven­tion and con­trol over the local police depart­ments. He has called on his fel­low sher­iffs through­out the coun­try to exer­cise their author­ity and not allow the fed­eral agen­cies inter­vene in their juris­dic­tions. Many sher­iffs have already adopted this approach and report­edly have made clear to fed­eral agents that their author­ity does not super­sede that of the sher­iffs in local matters.

I say that we should cheer on and sup­port police like Sher­iff Mack, con­cerned cit­i­zens, and The John Birch Soci­ety, who step up to the plate to defend our U.S. Con­sti­tu­tional rights to life, lib­erty, truth, jus­tice, and the Amer­i­can way!

Dump the uncon­sti­tu­tional Feds, and tell them to leave our guns alone; tell them to go suck an egg.

Google Sher­iff Mack and go to www.jbs.org for more information .

Sin­cerely,

Ed Nemechek, Lan­ders, CA

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