Letters

Duncan deserves death

How dare Joseph Duncan use his mother as an excuse to appeal his death sentence. And how can he question the system’s authority to commit murder? Who gave him the right to murder, brutally, all but one of a whole family? And molest those poor children.

If he really cared about his mother, he would go as quickly as possible to hell and let her get on with her life. The sadistic crimes that he has committed deserve only one outcome – death! I’m only sorry that it’s going to be quick and painless. Whatever happened to an eye for an eye?

Too bad those cops didn’t just kill him at Denny’s. That would be cause for celebration.

Laura Sweet

Spokane

Teach budgeting

The number of bankruptcies has seemed to increase way out of proportion. Therefore, the state educational system should have a mandatory money management course in high school. If students learn to budget (buying what you need and saving for what you want), there would be fewer bankruptcies.

Charles J. Johnson

Spokane

Welfare for the rich expands

Our congresswoman is at it again, voting to cut school lunches and Meals on Wheels while adding billions to the Defense Department unwanted by the Pentagon. She supports tax breaks for the rich and corporations posting huge profits. We aren’t talking about wealth redistribution or punishing success. It’s the government giving money to people that don’t want or need it.

Now, those kids and seniors are supposed to take a suggestion from our congresswoman and U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and get their food from the free market. The kids who don’t have money for lunch could do homework and chores for kids with money. Seniors could convert their wheelchairs into lawn mowers to earn money for food.

The congresswoman must think kids can choose their parents’ genes and wealth, and seniors should have made better choices before getting sick, old and disabled. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers believes the government should reward the lucky and successful with more tax breaks and subsidies. She is making the food welfare line shorter and the corporate welfare line longer. Government-provided food helps the farmer, distributor, kids and seniors. Government welfare for corporations just pads their offshore bank accounts.

Pete Scobby

Newport

Cancel this ‘Brady’ bunch

If there is a misleading, defining term such as a “Brady list,” then surely it could, and should be, referred to as “The Brady Bunch”! The bunch would of necessity include every prosecutor or defense attorney that ever entered any courtroom in this country.

Credibility issues? Within the legal and law enforcement community? Surely somebody is pulling somebody’s leg.

Is credibility a question when an attorney omits or fails to disclose a fact of a case, or a question or the law? Does this cast the attorney in a questionable light? Certainly not. That is why one practices law. Truth and facts do not necessarily assure justice.

To have attorneys oversee an assigned list of “credible officers” conveys the idea that these attorneys in fact are above reproach.

Who is kidding who?

Ken Brown

Spokane