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Opinion: In Tuesday’s Letters to the editor

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In Tuesday’s Letters to the editor, readers offer thoughts on the new O.J. Simpson verdict.

Mary Daily, of Santa Monica, sees justice in the sentence:

Seeing your photo of O.J. Simpson in prison garb and shackles, his hair considerably grayer than the last time he stood trial, calls to mind what a great equalizer life can be. We are all victims of our own behavior, our own faulty logic, our own greed. In the end, no one is immune to being brought down, no matter how high the pedestal on which they stood. (See Nixon, Richard; Edwards, John; Lay, Kenneth.) Some through wealth and influence may forestall the inevitable consequences of their deeds. But eventually, everyone’s chickens come home to roost.

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But Claremont’s Bruce Kahn disagrees:

All karma aside, try taking O.J.’s name out of this case. A man and friends confronted two others to retrieve items considered stolen. They brought a gun, threatened, and left with what they wanted. Now consider what a responsible guilty verdict should bring. One year? Two? Five, even? Try up to 33 years. Reasonable? Or one travesty of justice to correct another?

E.H. Roelfzema, of Amsterdam, Netherlands, takes aim at two stories that appeared on Dec. 3--Craig Childs’ Op-Ed about scavenging as as a search for civilization and this Column One about scavenging as a search for sustenance in rural Zimbabwe:

...The juxtaposition of these two articles in the same edition of The Times is deeply disturbing, and one would hope that Childs might reconsider his blithe and light-hearted comments. Scavenging for trash while watching one’s children die of starvation is inhumane, and to equate such a situation with the suggestion that it’s time ‘we lift scavenging out of the darkness and sing the praises of those who cull the world’ is offensive and arrogant. Let Childs do his scavenging in Zimbabwe and see how far he gets.

Also, reaction to The Times’ coverage of the bailout for Detroit, billboard blight and the War on Terror.

O.J. Simpson sentencing photo by AP Photo/Isaac Brekken.

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