Tom Quinn has “A couple of answers to offer” (Reader”s Views, Sept. 27). Unfortunately, he offers no answers in a counter to Darrell Watkins. He hides his political views in a cloud of angry hot air. Recalls challengers names and won”t debate ideas.
Unlike Quinn, Watkins argues ideas. There”s no smoke in his letters. He”s opposed to bad ideas like evilution, high taxes, big government, pornography, homosexual marriages, abortion clinics, and delinquent kids. He campaigns for good ideas like the Ten Commandments, prayer in public schools, corporal punishment, and the death penalty for drug traffickers. One suspects Quinn is against Watkins” ideas. No one knows for sure. He won”t come out of the closet and say.
Quinn is a tin man looking for a heart. He turns his head and pretends he can”t see two and a quarter million Americans in state prisons. He won”t watch mothers and fathers go behind barbed wire fences to visit their children. He puts his hands over his ears so he can”t hear the hopeless cries of millions of victims of crime who were raped, robbed, and murdered. Worst of all, Quinn believes family and school discipline have nothing to do with crime. His solution is to hire more criminal defense attorneys like himself.
Watkins” idea stops crime before it starts. It”s really not his idea. It”s counsel from wise men. Wise men don”t believe secular psychologists when they say they can reason with unruly kids. Wise men rebuild wood sheds torn down by Godless liberals. Wise men know, “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.” Quinn scorns Wisdom. It”s “fundamentalist religious zealotry” to him. Wisdom says, communities that walk in darkness will need more criminal defense attorneys like Quinn.
Darrell Watkins
Kelseyville
