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LETTERS

Randall Bosch; Jeffrey Myles Klein; Bonni Silber

January 26, 2008

Morgue visits

are a good idea

I read in Newsday that as part of her community service, Lindsay Lohan is being ordered to visit a morgue, where she will view the reality of dead bodies ["Lohan to join job corpse," News, Jan. 20]. On the opposite page was the tragic story of a 16-year-old Plainview boy who dies while trying to see "how fast his car could go."

It occurred to me that perhaps the lesson for Lohan could become mandatory for driver education students. Perhaps if these students were faced with the realities of high-speed driving, i.e., dead bodies, just maybe they would think twice.

Kids today need some fear in them. We spend much too much time making them comfortable, cushioning them from life's realities. Maybe the morgue visits would be a good idea.

Bonni Silber

Jericho

Enough stories

on former judge

Newsday has now published at least four articles against former Judge Ettore A. Simeone. The last article amounts to kicking a man when he is down ["Censured judge: Appointed to court job," News, Jan. 7].

The article takes offense that this former judge is offered a position well below what he was earning but making use of his legal credentials as a court attorney referee.

Admittedly, the judge has made mistakes, but I would argue that none was venal in nature. Speak to attorneys from all sides who practice regularly in Family Court as I do; ask Family Court officers, court reporters or victim advocates their opinions of him, and lastly ask litigants if they have been treated courteously and gotten a fair shake before him. I believe that the vast majority would agree that he was an impartial, knowledgeable, decent and capable jurist. He was always a gentleman, despite having to hear inflammatory cases on a daily basis.

I've both won and lost cases before him, and he has always treated me fairly.

Jeffrey Myles Klein

Editor's note: The writer is an attorney.

Centereach

Social action is

a church mission

In his column "When politics intrudes on faith: trouble" [Opinion, Jan. 21], Raymond Keating fears that politics in the churches is diluting the moral authority of the church. He charges that "assorted kinds of social action" are diverting Christianity from its central mission.

Does he really believe that health care, hunger and malnutrition, gun control, Social Security, affordable housing, war and peace, racial and ethnic prejudice, to name a few, are issues that "stray far from Christianity"?

Keating's views, if followed, would serve only to silence the church and its leaders on topics of great moral relevance and biblical concern.

Rev. Randall Bosch

Editor's note: The writer is a retired minister.

Bayville

Rudy's spacey

Rudy Giuliani wants to make NASA and a revitalized space program a priority of his administration so that the United States can once again "travel" to the moon and eventually get to Mars ["Rudy aims high amid a fall in the polls," News, Jan. 19]. What a joke...when many Americans are using "space" heaters in their homes and can't even afford to gas up their own cars when "traveling" to work!

Bob Buscavage

Moriches

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