TO THE EDITOR:

Don’t know what to get your partner for Valentine’s Day? Read the Epstein files. Read them until you’re sick. Then come back the next day and keep reading. Don’t stop there! This isn’t partisan. Prove to the women/children in your life that you care by speaking up in your community. Educate and call out the people still defending powerful figures who were credibly implicated. Jeffrey Epstein was not a lone monster. Court filings, sworn testimony, and investigative reporting describe a world where wealth and power insulated abuse. Even if some associates claim they didn’t participate, many knew something and did nothing. Guilt by association and silence in my mind. FYI, multiple administrations across decades have known about this. Only about 50% of the record is public and navigating it is exhausting by design. They have effectively flooded the zone. Start here: justice.gov/Epstein, jmail.world What’s alleged in filings/testimonies is horrifying: global child sexual abuse and trafficking, extreme violence, claims involving murder, dismemberment, cannibalism, and satanic-themed rituals. Under H.R. 4405, the AG may redact victim-identifying details and protect ongoing investigations. Yet victims’ names and images have circulated, while alleged perpetrators are often redacted, sometimes entire documents/photos. Demand more of politicians and prosecutors! Prosecute ALL fully and transparently. There is NO moral billionaire. A dollar spent is a vote cast.

Vanessa Davenport

Big Lake, MN

TO THE EDITOR:

I’m sorry you all, but I totally disagree with most of the editorials in the paper lately. Thankfully this is a free country. I don’t care if you park in the middle of my street, blow whistles, scream and shout louder than I am talking. That doesn’t mean you win and your ideas and beliefs are right and mine are wrong. As a conservative man of faith, who grew up at times poor, on a farm in Central MN., I believe our country and state cannot survive and thrive with open borders. Illegal immigrants have broken the law. There is a path to legal immigration. The loss of two lives in Minneapolis is a very sad tragedy. Often, individual actions have consequences. With the left-leaning media and social media spreading lies, we need to seek God and His truth. “For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. — John 3:16.

Dean Johnson

Becker, MN