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I heard on 107.9 KWVE-FM radio Nov. 15 news of the Supreme Court debate on whether to proceed with a ruling of lethal injection to a convicted criminal sentenced to be executed. His defense is stating that the lethal injection is inhumane.

Then I read of a Polish immigrant, Robert Dzienkanski, who died as a result of being shot by a stun gun by Canadian police at the Vancouver International Airport while coming to live with his mom.

Executing hard-core convicted criminals is inhumane, yet shooting and killing innocent people with stun guns is humane?

The clincher was watching a documentary on TV on the ever growing California Mexican Mafia gang La Eme, currently numbering 50,000 members who control the Southern California drug cartel from the confines of our tax-dollar-paid jails. Our president is more concerned about protecting the flow of oil into our country by fighting the Middle East war on “terrorism” while completely blind of the epidemic of criminal gang terrorists in our own country. And Congress is pushing to open the borders and let all illegal immigrants into our country and give them free driver’s licenses?

By continuing to supply our elected public representatives with our taxes we are in a sense encouraging the growth of gangs, crime, violence and drugs by housing these convicted “terrorists” rather than execute and stop the offenders. It costs more to house a convicted criminal for one-year in maximum security prison than to send a student to Yale for one year.

Something is definitely wrong with this picture, and something is definitely wrong with our justice system and government leadership.

We don’t need to build more jails, we need to eliminate the hard core convicted criminals and send a strong message to the immoral that seek to follow in their shoes that there will be no more mild slap on the wrists, you will lose your life. If we want to live in a country that truly offers liberty and justice for all then we must live by a just and humane system.

The only such just system that I know of is God’s system, based on the 10 Commandments. And we as a nation are not living by those commands, we are in fact doing everything to remove and destroy those 10 simple reminders of what true liberty and justice is.

RUSS NIEWIAROWSKI

Newport Beach

More kids need mentors

What a great story about Estancia seniors mentoring freshmen (“Estancia seniors offer freshman tutoring,” Nov. 20). This appears to be what a lot of youngsters need to give them a boost away from classroom failure and bad behavior. Often all it takes is a peer connection to make that student reach out for academic involvement and eventual success. Hopefully this mandatory program will spread to all the high schools in the district (if it isn’t already) and who knows, the nation!

PETE RABBITT

Newport Beach

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