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Loog JobLetters from the week of July 22, 2004Published on July 22, 2004Roasted on the spit: Regarding spitter Jeff Sullens' claims about turning the tables on war protesters (KC Strip, "Red, White and Loog," July 15), Jerry Lembcke's book The Spitting Image (New York University Press, 1998) examined reports that returning Vietnam vets were spat upon. The author found no confirmable episodes of spitting on soldiers. Proof of anything, however, seems irrelevant to supporters of the Bush regime. Richard Lawrence Miller Temperature Rising Melvin Williams He was following neither the DMV's regulations for a motorcycle nor the laws for a car. That he had his plates confiscated is not only fair; it should have taken fewer than 12 traffic stops in the past year for it to finally happen. I have absolutely no sympathy for the fact that he's making payments on a machine that he cannot use to commute to work because it's against the law! It's pretty simple: Get a car, or get a motorcycle, and there won't be any problems -- OR petition your representatives in Jefferson City to alter the DMV regulations for an ATV to be classified as street-legal. Now thatwould be a worthwhile story for the Pitch; until then, Mr. Malicoat is just another 23-year-old, malcontent punk who has a problem with following the law. Michael Cerny Home Run Thank you so very much, and bless people like Mr. Stone. Too bad pro sports does not have more human beings like Jeff. Otherwise I'd still be a fan. Jim Meyer Down Time The felony-murder rule short-circuits the normal due process for a murder prosecution. Perhaps charges of aiding and abetting an armed robbery and aiding and abetting a murder would be more fair and just. Four years for the above-amended hypothetical charges would be enough justice. The victim was a participant in his own murder. The defendant is a mother with two children, and society needs her to mother her children. Justice would be served with a pardon. Tom Lietz Open Ranger Keep up the good work! David Nelson Don't get me wrong -- a lot of the people out at bars are annoyingly similar -- but not everyone who dresses that way is. Matt Moriarity Poster Boy After the Tech N9ne van, full of posters and CDs, stopped by the Boys and Girls Club baseball fields at 43rd and Cleveland recently, I sent just one message to Mr. Tech N9ne: Do not come to our games where kids (from toddlers to teens) are attending a family event and pass out the poster with you eyeballing down the barrel of a gun! A local celebrity like this should know better; enough of our kids have had plenty of guns in their lives. Enjoy your hell in your own space, along with your fans, managers and promoters, but I, along with several other parents, must insist -- keep the gun-toting, violent posters off our fields.
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