PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Predators Should Do Everyone A Favor

Life is a wondrous thing. You can experience so many emotions, meet people from every point of the world, wonder at the beauty of nature and have an existence in the scheme of humanity.

I have not yet read the latest in the tragic end of what could have been what little Jersey Bridgeman could have experienced in her life because it makes me want to cry. I do cry for her and those who truly cared for her.

I know we’re a growing community and with growth comes undesirable byproducts, and that is what we call progress.

What happened with Jersey is not progress. It is a demented action that need not happen again in a progressive society.

What happened to Jersey when she was first known to us and her family should not have happened.

What should happen if monsters that inflict such pain on children are in such a mindset to do such things? They should call a hotline or a friend or, better yet, save all the God-fearing, law-abiding and child-loving-hearted citizens a favor and murder themselves.

DEK E. KELLY

Rogers

‘RICH’ NOT THAT DIFFERENT

I am a lot like you. I may be your brother or your sister. I may have been your best friend in high school.

I work weekends, nights, and holidays. I rarely take a vacation. I don’t live on the beach, but I may live next door.

There aren’t that many of me, but I am responsible for 42 percent of all charitable giving and 70 percent of all federal income taxes. In one year I will donate 307 hours to women’s shelters, food drives, animal rescues, and other charities. I sponsor Little League teams. I dream. I design, develop, and market things and ideas that hopefully other people will want to purchase.

Sometimes I succeed, and when I do others succeed with me. I am of no particular race. My genetic code is no better than yours, and if I can achieve, you can, too.

I am not the problem.

I am not the faceless, soulless, rich person that President Obama would have you believe. I am not your enemy, but Obama has declared war on me anyway. I am the target of his corrupt revenge.

“Voting is the best revenge!” - Barack Obama, Nov. 2, 2012

CHARLES RAY AKIN

Bentonville