So, Mark Palesh believes that a new business, Family Video, has set up a trap to bring families in and then expose them to the worst of society?

This opinion ranks right up there with the Halloween is a trick of the devil to lure little children with treats letter seen here a while back. My my, the conspiracies that live in the minds of some.

I should like to inquire of Mr. Palesh with utter sincerity; haven't you better ways in which to serve the citizens of this city who have elected you to serve as city manager; not as “Morality Cop.”

Mr. Palesh's rather stilted view of “the worst of society” is as ill informed as it is narrow-minded.

I wonder, if he has ever taken a gander at bloodletting films like the “Saw” series, or gory blood fests like “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” or “Hostel.”

Unlike the adult videos at Family Video - which are in a restricted area - these extremely violent DVDs are in full view, and available to anyone for rental.

Yet he's offended by sexuality over that garbage?

Fortunately, Mr Palesh has annunciated a viable solution for his fundamentalist leanings against adult-content videos when he said “I, for one, will never expose my family to that store again.”

Hey, don't let the door hit ya, buddy.

I can't help adding that, if we have to live with the obnoxious bible thumpers crowding the sidewalks with their signs and screaming through their megaphones down by Wegmans' corner, and having to endure being accosted by them with their pamphlets and inquiries of my spiritual worthiness, then you and your's, sir, should be able to both tolerate and survive the existence of an innocuous video rental business which you will not in fact even patronize.

Sheeesh!

Karl Logan

Auburn