LETTERS: A horrible death; MMJ patients; and more

Innocent animals’ horrible death

On Jan. 26, about 2:45 p.m., I was in the left lane driving north on I-25 between North Gate Road and Baptist Road. In a split second, I saw two large dogs (one yellow, one a rust color) cowering in the median, clearly terrified, and in that next split second they tried to get through the traffic.

 I will relive for the rest of my life the horror of watching the rust-colored dog leave the median first, with the yellow dog following, and in an instant, they were dead. What I witnessed was the car in front of me striking the yellow dog, with the poor dog flying through the air, his/her face in my direction, then crashing into the median. The rust-colored dog suffered the same fate as there was a commercial truck in the right lane, next to the car in front of me.

I want whoever it was that abandoned those two innocent animals or that person who wasn’t protecting them to have a graphic image of their last minutes alive, as I, and the many vehicles surrounding me on that terrible day, will never forget.

Shari Kern

Monument

Dark world we live in

What is wrong with the CSPD VNI and the D.A.? There is a difference, a huge difference, between a cancer patient growing medical marijuana for relief of leukemia symptoms and an illegal black market dealer. How can the “trained” professionals in Colorado Springs Police Vice, Narcotics, and Intel really be unable to tell the difference? It seems a shame that even the District Attorney’s Office is also unable to discern the difference between the two.

Bob Crouse has leukemia and has had this terrible disease for some time now. Cancer patients are typically unable to work, and hence have little money. Given that, Crouse was growing this expensive medicine for himself in the privacy of his home, until last year, when Colorado Springs Police Vice decided to raid his house and destroy his garden.

I could see an issue if Crouse was selling baggies of green out his back door, but that is clearly not the case here. Seriously, what has happened to our society when the vice squad and district attorney can decide the best treatment for a cancer patient? I doubt that they could be that desperate for criminals that they need to pursue a cancer patient in order to get their prisoner count and conviction rate up. Is this one more case that CSPD screwed up and is now trying to cover its tracks with a forced plea?

As a side note, it has been publicly stated and documented that Crouse has reduced the number of cancer cells in his blood stream just from eating the doctor-recommended marijuana oil. Who wouldn’t endorse that, excepting our D.A. Dan May and the Colorado Springs Police VNI department? It’s a dark world we live in where police can impose their might and intimidation to supersede doctor’s orders.

Don McKay

Colorado Springs

All that money, time and energy

A recent billboard message on I-25 states in effect, “God is an Imaginary Friend”. The sponsors, an atheist group from Boulder, would have us assume that God is just the imagination of us folks here in Colorado Springs.

But have you ever wondered why any group would spend all that money, time, and energy wanting to convince us that God doesn’t exist and would want to engage us in a philosophical discussion on that subject?

Psalm 14:1, sums up this matter in so few words: “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’”

Rev. Emeritus, Peter Caruana

Colorado Springs

We elected the crew

I rarely finish a David Sirota column because I cannot cut through the partisan rhetoric. Saturday’s wasn’t so bad. (“Paralyzed By Economic Normalcy Bias, America Must Shop,” Jan. 28) His Canary Island plane crash example could have been replaced by people initially staying on the Costa Concordia cruise ship after it ran aground. And reports say that even crew members initially were telling people not to worry.

Sirota gave us examples of our political crew likewise telling us not to worry. He reached back to previous administrations to demonstrate the point, but he needed only reference the most recent State of the Union address to show that we are still groping for expanded government spending: Plenty of new initiatives and proposals; no discussion of shrinking the budget.

We as a society elect the crew. Our politicians reflect our lust for spending, and their compliance increases our appetite. We fail to recognize that not only do we owe our personal debt, but also the national debt. (And state debts, and municipal debts!)

When we meet with our candidates at upcoming town halls this campaign season, our first question to them can no longer be, “What will you get for me...” It must be, What spending did you cut yesterday?” We must each ask that of ourselves as well.

Joe Oppelt

Colorado Springs