Issue isn't woman's arrest; it's that she stole a book

The Gazette posed the question incorrectly in its recent Your View poll when asking, 'Should police have arrested an Independence woman for failing to return a book to the Jesup Public Library.' A more ...

[malachy]

Well, yes, after thinking it over. She needs to serve jail time, up to about ten years. Afterward, she needs to be on parole for at least three years. At times, she needs to be placed in a stockadge in the public square where people can look, spit and yell at her. With so many things of import today, the recession and all, this woman is taking valuable time away from the newspapers, police and all of us. Oh yes, the gays and Obama cause this kind of disrespect for the law too.