OpinionAugust 23, 1997
SPEAKOUT
ON THE front page you had a story about not enough police to work traffic because there are more accidents and, therefore, less time to devote to patrolling the streets and to issuing citations. Here is your answer. You have done your drug bust. Move all those people over to traffic patrol. ...
Police should concentrate on speeders
ON THE front page you had a story about not enough police to work traffic because there are more accidents and, therefore, less time to devote to patrolling the streets and to issuing citations. Here is your answer. You have done your drug bust. Move all those people over to traffic patrol. I'm sure it is more fun for the police to bust down doors, but really, when it comes down to it, there are more people getting injured in cars and by cars than there are by marijuana. The police really need to look at our city streets and find those speeding offenders. Those are the ones who are really killing people.
You pay taxes because you have to
I DON'T live in Scott City, but I will attempt to respond to a comment made by a Speak Out caller who hails from there. He said, "A lot of us are wondering why we pay such high taxes in this town." My guess would be the law requires it.
Help is available for obsessive callers
SOME Speak Out callers seem obsessed with the appearance of Cape's new theater complex. Every little thing out of place and every tiny scratch seem bothersome to the point of distraction to the callers. I understand the nature of the callers' affliction. The callers need to know that there is hope. The condition is treatable with behavioral modification and/or some of the newer brands of antidepressant medication. Take heart. You do not have to suffer the ravages of obsessive compulsive disorder.
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Gang hangout more important than speeders
AS A citizen of Jackson, I make no apologies for our city being listed as a speed trap. We just like to keep traffic moving within the posted speed limits. We do have another problem of a gang hangout on Sue Drive in the northwest part of town. I believe some police should be taken off the speed trap to keep the gang under watch day and night.
Turning the clock back on sewer bills
WHAT KIND of place are we living in any way? A person being cited because they couldn't pay the sewer bill. A policeman comes to the home and cites him and he has to go to court, I guess if he doesn't show up, they will have to go to jail. We did away with debtors prison years and years ago. Those were the days if a man could not pay his debt, he had to work it out as a bonded slave. We are turning the clock back. I only hope it is challenged in a court of law. It's pretty bad when police officers can come to people's doors and cite them for not paying their bills. We have civil court for things like that.
It has a nice ring to it
I WOULD like to say to the people who have the nasty things to say about the Southeast Missourian, I wholeheartedly agree. I have to go back to what I think name of the paper should be. Last winter, I gave it the name the Regressive, Renegade, Rebel, Redneck Republican. That is the true name that the paper should have. You do not represent anything but a very ultra-rightwing view that has such strong, nice people as Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and a few others who are not quite up to the 20th century.
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