Posted: Monday, May 29, 2006 7:00 pm
People in our central and Midwest states don’t fully understand the problem with illegal immigration into our country. They need to take a trip to the border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Florida and see for themselves.
We need to tell our political and religious leaders to start taking care of our people who are already U.S. citizens and not someone who is here illegally.
Mexico is getting all the money instead of the taxes paid to our country. They want our money, but they want their people to be here instead. Our taxes go up to pay for their medical problems and schools, and we have to build more and more jails. What part of illegal don’t you understand?
Also the employers who hire them, what part of against the law don’t they understand? Let’s not just fine them but make them pay all the federal and state taxes they cheated the government out of.
This illegal immigration problem is far bigger than the citizens of this country realize, and our government needs to fix this now before we have retaliation, discrimination and eventually a civil uprising.
Keith Hatfield, Clatonia
Pray your way to health
On the Lincoln Journal Star front page on May 23 is a color chart of “20 cheap ways to improve your health.”
I want you to know that there is an omission in your chart … the power of prayer and of spiritual understanding. If it were understood that we are the sons and daughters of God, created in His image, and reflecting His goodness and perfection, there would be no need for the 20 material means you list for preventive steps to improving health economically.
Reliance on God for health and happiness is free to all. There is no better bargain anywhere!
Anabeth Cox, Lincoln
Sneaking under the law
Today I read on MSN.com that District Judge Kristine Cecava of Cheyenne County has given a convicted child molester 10 years probation rather than the prison sentence he would normally get (and deserves) because “she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers” since the poor fellow is only 5 feet 1 inch tall.
Judge Cecava cautioned the petite molester, whose short stature apparently didn’t keep him from preying on children, and said, “I truly hope that my bet on you being OK out in society is not misplaced.” Yeah, innocent children all over Nebraska and the United States (not to mention the world) are comforted by Cecava’s “bet.”
Tiny pedophiles are probably already making their way to the state whose motto is “Equality Before the Law.” In fact, if you’re short enough, you can actually sneak under the law. It’s sad that this travesty is probably the only impression most people will have of the Nebraska justice system.
Mental note to myself — don’t move my family to or go anywhere near Nebraska. In fact — you can bet on it.
Cheryl Swaim, King, N.C.
Fiction, fact entangled
In “The Da Vinci Code,” Dan Brown openly states that his book is “part fact/part fiction.” He cleverly weaves his many “facts” with much “fiction” to make it interesting reading, and it is up to the reader to determine what is fact and what is fiction. Unfortunately many uninformed readers will wrongfully believe that much of the fiction is fact — hence the problem/deception.
Ask yourself this: Would you be offended if Dan Brown wrote a fact/fiction book about your mother? In this book he documents many facts about your mother — her name, date of birth, who she married, who her children were, etc. etc. … but then he starts adding fiction to make it more interesting reading by stating that your mother got hooked on drugs, became a prostitute, had several abortions, etc. … all lies but justified by saying “it’s just fiction.”
Is this “harmless fiction”? You decide.
Bernard J. Kouma, Lincoln