KELSEYVILLE — After reading the opinion column Through my Lens entitled “Honor abroad, disgrace at home,” in the Saturday Record-Bee written by Berenice Quirino, I had to write.
I would like to suggest that Ms. Quirino take off her rose-colored lens or at least get her prescription checked.
Using a quote by the esteemed Nelson Mandela regarding his life-long vigil against the atrocities of apartheid against a quote from the cartoon ?The Simpson”s” to write an editorial about prisoner rights sickens me.
Let me educate her. These ?lowest ones” that Mr. Mandela is referring to are people that were not allowed even basic human rights ? not murderers, rapists, and drug dealers of the highest order.
I would like to suggest that she and her imaginary friend Lisa Simpson take a visit to Pelican Bay, the highest security prison in California, and take a poll as to how many of those incarcerated citizens are there for taking a stand against the injustices on humanity.
For that matter she could save the gas and go to the Lake County Jail.
Ask those poor citizens how many of them are there for making a stand for social causes.
If she has such a strong sympathy toward criminals maybe she should consider a career involving the rehabilitation of these citizens. Apparently there are a lot of them.
Using quotes by President Obama and Mr. Mandela to make me feel bad about criminals stopping up toilets to decrease prison crowding did not make me kindred to her cause.
I suggest that Ms. Quirino, as she suggested in her opinion column about our President, maybe she should consider shoving whatever pen she used to write this opinion piece with where the sun doesn”t shine.
Her writing makes her sound like a racist. Is she? What a waste of paper.
