Sanctuary policies let sex offender go free
Re: “Fugitive sex offender from El Salvador still believed to be in area,” July 19
What a classic example of the failure of Montgomery County officials to do their jobs and protect citizens from criminal illegal aliens.
The sanctuary policies of County Executive Ike Leggett and Councilwoman Nancy Navarro, D-Silver Spring, allowed a convicted child sex offender from El Salvador to violate the conditions of his probation and disappear into the community.
Police Chief Tom Manger’s officers were too busy camouflaging speed cameras to check Pastor Omar Medrano-Pereira’s legal status with federal officials. Corrections director Arthur Wallenstein’s staff apparently did not want to disturb his TV and workout schedule while he was in custody.
If Pereira is smart, he’ll head over to Montgomery College and sign up for classes, where he can soon pick up a “Dream Act” work permit from the Obama administration.
Meanwhile, citizens are at risk because our elected officials and their appointed drones refuse to enforce the law, allowing this creep to walk our streets with impunity.
Brad Botwin
Director, Help Save Maryland
Rockville
Administration’s snub of Israel is outrageous
Re: “In terrorism fight, Israel need not apply,” July 16
The failure of the State Department and the executive branch to insist that Israel be included in a conference on terrorism, when it has been the main object of terrorism and is a leader in combating that evil, is outrageous. However, it is only the tip of the iceberg as the Obama administration continues to denigrate and demean Israel to the benefit of her enemies.
Efforts by the State Department to get funding for UNESCO, which declared that the Palestinian Authority is a recognized nation and that Bethlehem is its sacred heritage site, and UNRWA, which establishes schools in Gaza where terrorism against Israelis is encouraged, is ample reason to question the attitude of President Obama and State Secretary Hillary Clinton toward Israel.
The objective of Clinton’s recent visit to Israel was to ensure that it would not attack Iranian nuclear sites. To further humiliate her hosts, she insisted that Jonathan Pollard should remain in prison for life with no chance of parole, while demanding that Palestinian terrorists serving similar sentences in Israeli jails for murdering Israeli citizens be freed.
Is there any doubt this administration is the most anti-Israel one in our nation’s history?
Nelson Marans
Silver Spring
No way to fix our ailing health care system
Reforming our health care system is critically important. American families should have access to affordable medical care, and the system needs to operate efficiently. However, Obamacare is not the right way to guarantee these things.
In upholding the president’s health care law as constitutional, the Supreme Court did not say it was good, just that it was legal as one of the largest new taxes on American families in our nation’s history.
The law creates a trillion-dollar program overseen by a maze of federal regulators and lawyers. It gives unprecedented authority to 15 unaccountable bureaucrats.
Obamacare will not just interfere with our personal health care choices. States, already burdened with needless interference by the federal government, will now have to deal with another new and complicated program.
This is the perfect example of Washington overreach. Rather than allowing patient-centered reforms and trusting American taxpayers to make our own decisions, the president’s plan puts unelected bureaucrats between patients and doctors.
True health care reform should begin at the state and local level. Expanding the Washington bureaucracy is not the way to solve our problems.
Mike Thompson
President, Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy
Springfield
