Letters to the Editor, Nov. 29

OUTSTANDING COVERAGE

Kudos to the Toronto Sun/Postmedia sports team for outstanding week-long coverage of the Grey Cup. I’m sure CFL fans across Canada appreciated the superb writing and a presentation that was compelling and comprehensive. We can only hope your commitment will help the league, as mentioned by Steve Simmons in his Sunday column, to “find a younger, multicultural, engaged audience that looks more like Canada looks today.” Thanks again!

GORD McNULTY

HAMILTON

(You’re welcome and nice of you to say so)

UNDERSTANDING MANSON

Whenever a large-scale atrocity is committed, I feel that society must look beyond the perpetrator’s atrocious act and towards his/her motivation for committing the act, however abhorrent. This is with the goal of learning enough to prevent a reoccurrence someday by another societal monster, otherwise the great suffering is essentially without positive purpose. According to a relatively new TV documentary I viewed on the subject of how such monsters are created, as a toddler Charles Manson sought to bond with his mother, but to no avail. Instead — amongst other instances of abandonment — she sold him for a pitcher of beer at a bar. As politically incorrect as it is to suggest this, especially when the monster is male, we need to extensively investigate all of the Manson-type cases for deeper understanding of such troubled tormented psyches, rather than simply reactively cry out for death penalty vengeance.

FRANK STERLE JR.

WHITE ROCK, B.C.

(Manson spent most of his life in prison and we don’t understand his motivation today any better than we did when he ordered others to kill for him. Good riddance)

CANADIANS THREATENED

Regarding the reintegration of ISIS fighters back to Canada. It is about time that we as Canadians stand up against a government that is openly jeopardizing the life and security of every citizen, notwithstanding the amount of money and resources that will be spent to monitor the already 60 repatriated terrorists. Mr. Trudeau seems only interested in his world image rather than the safety of citizens. It astounds me that the governments of this country can rescind the citizenship of 90-year-old Nazis and yet they feel that ISIS is less of a threat. Some countries are imprisoning terrorists returning to their so-called mother countries, and yet this government feels it can rehabilitate people that should be tried for treason, rape, murder. Send all of them back to the war zone they craved. They have rejected our society, killed our soldiers. Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms should not be used to protect these cowards.

THOMAS GEDDES

PORT DOVER

(Agreed)

HATS OFF

My memory from the Grey Cup will be the number of idiots who did not remove their hats during the national anthem. Are you afraid of a little bit of snow or getting your hair wet while our vets were buried in mud and snow to allow you to be free? Shame, shame. You are as sorry a lot as the NFL players.

LEE RHYNOLD 

(We doubt most were aware they were supposed to take their hats off)

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