Earl’s Last Laugh

Re: "Earls Last Laugh" by Ron Russell--I too want to thank Ron Russell for exposing part of the SFPD inordiante preferential treatment history of retired Chief Prentise Earl Sanders. Most citizens would show some form of shame if they were never able to raise themselves through the ranks without the use of race or "affirmative action", and whine forever that he/she was the victim of racial discrimination. But not chief Sanders, and Bennett Cohen too is laughing all the way to the bank.

It seems that Mr. Bennett Cohen needs to resort to smear tactics to uplift Chief Sanders and his own involvement in their book. We are hopeful that the San Francisco District Attorney and the US Attorney will complete an investigation to determine if they have broken the law in this case.

Freedom of speech is cherished in America--but not so in Canada and Germany where a 65 year old man named Ernst Zundel is facing 5 yearts in prison (he's been confined for several years already) because he questions some of the happenings during the European Holocaust that was horribly devastating to European Jewish people. He does not deny that the Holocaust happened--he just rejects some of the claims--and for that he is being imprisoned. He has never committed a crime, to the best of my knowledge, except to express his opinion about some claims relating to the Holocaust.

I do not necessarily agree with all of Ernst Zundel's notions, but I do believe that most Americans believe that Freedom of Speech is one of the most important Constitutional rights that we possess. Allow a Bennett Cohen to deprive us of that right and we may be doomed to an unpleasant future. In my opinion, Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen is a disgrace. Louis Calabro