Worry more about victims

In response to a letter written by Tatiana Neroni appearing in June 13 issue: Miss Neroni is concerned with the rights of convicted child molesters and feels that long prison sentences are not justified.

Miss Neroni and anyone else who feels convicted child molesters deserve another chance should offer to take them into their homes with their loved ones and try to rehabilitate and nurture them.

Miss Neroni’s letter indicates multiple incentives exist to declare someone a pedophile, etc. Evidence is required before charges can be brought upon anyone. Police, social workers and psychiatrists work in a painstaking manner to derive the truth in such cases.

This is not a perfect world. There are many depraved adults preying on children. These people must be caught, processed and incarcerated for long periods and lose privileges that others in society enjoy. Twenty years is not enough!

If we can afford to spend hundreds of billions of dollars tying to protect and defend the civil liberties of others in faraway countries, I have to believe we can afford to incarcerate the depraved molesters and murderers who have been spawned in our own country.

Miss Neroni offers no ideas to curb the issues she discussed. Action speaks louder than words. If anyone feels compelled to take convicted molesters or murderers into their home for rehab, by all means, go for it.

If solid evidence is there, I say, prison is too good for these people. Twenty years’ incarceration seems too little for a convicted child molester, considering the abused must carry their pain for a lifetime. Let’s spend less time and money worrying about the criminals and more time and money on those who deserve it, the helpless victims.

David M. Rama Sr.
Delhi

U.S. much worse since November

I wrote a letter to the editor in 2006 that predicted what would happen in our country if the left won in November at national and state levels. Unfortunately, we are seeing much of what I wrote.

Intelligent Design is being categorized as religion instead of science (what it already is), and an attempt has been made to expel it from the public arena. There is a fervent push to provide homosexuals with special rights (such as in New York bill A08590) that are above and beyond that of the general public. Traditional marriage and family values are being disregarded as narrow-minded and prejudiced. Abortion is being made a constitutional freedom, rather than what it really is: the murder of a not-yet-birthed baby boy or girl. Bills are being written that silence the conservatives and all religious people regardless of their political position. "Hate crime" bills include terminology that will outlaw people from verbally disagreeing with particular political agendas and/or sub-cultures, therefore our freedom to bring grievances to our government is being stifled. Furthermore, our freedom of speech, freedom of religion and our right to bear arms are also under attack.

Am I exaggerating? Check it out; it really is happening. Go to www.ACLJ.org. Probably the only good thing the new House and Senate is doing is pushing to have our United States military pull out of Iraq based on a time line.

The answer to our problems in the USA can be found 2 Chronicles 7:14: "If My (God’s) people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

J.P (John) Pasquale
Livingston Manor