Letters to the editor — May 17

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• Published May 17, 2008

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The Olympian is doing exactly what they want — PUBLICITY!

AND who pays for the prosecution of these lawbreakers? We, the taxpayers, pay, not only for the police to try to maintain peaceful assembly and to prepare the reports about the lawbreakers, but we also pay for the prosecuting attorneys to prepare the cases to prosecute the lawbreakers and then we pay for the court- appointed attorneys to defend these thugs and also we pay for the overworked judges and court staffs.

All of these expenses are paid by us taxpayers.

When will The Olympian put the reports about the lawbreakers on the back page with little or no copy like you did for the National Day of Prayer rally that was held on the Capitol steps, that same day? That rally was made up of people who were praying that God would have mercy on our city, our state and our nation. The Olympian printed one small photo of a woman with a dog, totally misrepresenting the more than 200 people who were focusing on prayer, obeying the law, and who were orderly and conducting a respectful rally.

Bob Higley, Olympia

There are far worse crimes than shattered glass

My young children and I had the misfortune to walk right into the middle of the May Day march, walking from Browser’s Books to Radiance. I think everybody is overreacting. We were right there when they threw the rocks and the rest of the crowd desperately tried to stop it, and did stop them, almost immediately.

I feel sorry for those kids whose entire futures might be ruined over a few panes of glass. Is human life worth so little?

In our culture, it’s illegal to smoke in public but not illegal to make Tacoma unbreathable, it’s illegal to let your dog poop on the sidewalk but legal to destroy Hood Canal with septic wastes, illegal to commit murder but not war. It seems like nothing is a crime if you do it on a large enough scale! We are near-sighted, because we only see the petty crimes such as breaking windows, while ignoring the vast public crimes of corporations, who destroy thousands of lives worldwide.