Letters to the editor for Jan. 9

• Published January 09, 2007

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Our hope survives in reports that the FCC doesn't have the legal authority to do this. This rogue commission is out of control. We need to jump on the backs of our congressional representatives and make them overturn the new illegal ruling.

For more information, go to www.saveaccess.org.

Robert Kam, Olympia

Christians have

civil rights, too

It is worse than reprehensible that it is perfectly all right to display a menorah at the Capitol building yet the nativity scene requires further legal study. It is equally reprehensible that apparently both the governor and the attorney general are perfectly comfortable with the aforementioned.

Evidently the civil rights and liberties of Christians are of less stature than those of the Jewish faith and those who act out their concocted infringements of their rights in the theater of the contemporary judiciary. The concept that governmental agency endorses the Christian faith if a symbol is displayed has the same credibility as North Carolina District Attorney Michael Nifong has.

Joe Winkler, Olympia

Integrity is the

key ingredient

I applaud Thurston County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney William Halstead for resigning and saving Ed Holm's office further public embarrassment. I am a little disappointed that there wasn't some statement to the effect of poor choices.

I also thank Halstead for being a strong finisher and seeing the Lynn Soeby murder case to the end. Our county needed that. I know he is a very competent trial lawyer. I disagree with Sheriff's Captain Jim Chamberlin's assessments of Halstead as having a "good professional reputation."

Integrity has to be a major part of a man's reputation. We can't separate our reputation into little pockets and call them our professional reputation, or our public reputation, or our family reputation. It is just our reputation.

Integrity is the key ingredient. It is the one thing that no one can take from us. It is the greatest gift we can give our sons.

Rocky Watts, Rochester

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