Tom Quinn (“Obsessed with dogma,” Readers” Views, June 30) says 17-year-old Bruce Wells (charged with stabbing Samuel Shull to death in Lower Lake) wasn”t abused as a child.
Quinn recognizes the baby “Hernandez” child abuse but can”t see how Wells suffers from the same crime. He has no sympathy for Wells, his family, or his victims. Neither is he bothered by two and a quarter million “Wells” kids now serving time in state prisons. He callously accepts the millions who came before them and millions more that will surely follow.
Prison inmates aren”t born felons. To say they have a genetic problem is a rotten way to justify child abuse by libertine societies that abuse children.
Where do “Wells” kids get hearts so cold they stab men to death? Why are they drunk and at neighbor”s houses at 11:23 p.m.?
Quinn has no answers. Neither does he have tears for the ruined lives of “Wells” kids and heartbreaking calamities of their victims.
“Wells” kids are abused over long periods of time by cold and arrogant communities that practice a new secular religion of liberalism.
Like Quinn, they reject the wise old child rearing values of Solomon, “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.” Anti-Solomon liberals hold in contempt biblical counsel. With tongues dripping scorn, they call it “dogma.”
Woodsheds are bulldozed and replaced with psychologists who claim they reason with unruly kids. Systemic maltreatment of “Wells” kids is well documented in files at schools they attend. Problem kids are tolerated and get worse. Folders grow fatter and fuller.
Thousands of new case-hardened criminals are fashioned every year. Foolish parents, secular psychologists, hippie school board members, and go-along-to-get-along teachers are all guilty of universal, catastrophic child abuse.
Darrell Watkins
Kelseyville
