DOJ should not pursue ‘hate crime’ investigation either Re: “Obama embraces racial demagogue Sharpton,” Editorial, April 13
In a fail-safe attempt to guarantee a severe punishment for George Zimmerman, the alleged shooter in the Florida death of black teenager Trayvon Martin, the U.S. Department of Justice is conducting a “hate crime” investigation of the incident.
Why? To appease the black population? Or to satisfy President Obama’s desire for a “we’ll show you” reaction?
The state of Florida has already mobilized its justice apparatus to seek the necessary and obligatory sentence for the alleged shooter. That is enough. Pursing a federal hate crime investigation is absurd and ridiculous.
Any crime is a hate crime and should be punished as such, including the 81 percent of black people who are murdered in the U.S. by other blacks. If Attorney General Eric Holder wants to do something about hateful crimes against blacks, Philadelphia is a good place to start. He can then go to Chicago, Detroit and Newark.
And don’t forget Washington, D.C.
Louis Ginesi Dominguez
Warrenton
Bad review won’t keep me away from ‘Stooges’ update
Re: “‘Stooges’ proves you can’t modernize a comedy classic,” April 13
As a lifelong Three Stooges fan, I plan on seeing this film. The Stooges had an early role in the 1933 film “Dancing Lady” with Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. They also produced a short film under FDR’s National Recovery Act titled “The Woman Hater’s Club,” the only Stooges’ short done in rhyme as a musical employing many Hollywood staffers.
Kelly Jane Torrance’s review referring to “juvenile jokes” and “painfully stupid” slapstick is typical of the female perspective, which just doesn’t get the Stooges.
The real comedy is that she had to watch the entire movie. Nyuk, nyuk …
David Saulsbury
Gettysburg, Pa.
Ten-year war has taken its toll on the troops
Re: “Neighbors say Afghan attack suspect was a family man,” March 16
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a huge toll on U.S. troops. Although we can never repay our soldiers who have continued to fight for 10 years, my question to the warmongers in Washington is: How can you ever wash off the blood shed in two wars that have been going on entirely too long from your hands?
The resent massacre of Afghan citizens reminded me of the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam. I was 10 at the time, but I clearly remember how many citizens took both sides in that controversy. Although I never served in the Armed Forces, I remember very vividly how many young men moved to Canada to keep from fighting in Vietnam.
If “war is hell,” as even the U.S. Secretary of Defense told television and newspaper reporters recently, then why in the name of sanity does humanity engage in it so much?
Timothy Bledsoe
Augusta, S.C.
