Where does military judge Col. James Pohl find his reasoning for permitting Khalid Sheik Mohammed to wear American-issue camouflage instead of standard-issue prison orange (“KSM’s Camo Slammo,” Oct. 18)?
Why is he catering to the whims of a terrorist who would like to see us all dead after killing 3,000? Has America gone crazy to allow such disrespect to our judicial system?
The poor, suffering families of the victims shouldn’t have to increase their suffering by seeing a smirking, ranting criminal given a platform for speeches in our courts.
Sharon Loew, Manhattan
Wind power works
As a clean-energy source, the wind-energy industry takes health-related concerns very seriously. The recent column by longtime wind opponent Robert Bryce (“Against the Wind,” PostOpinion, Oct. 17) unsurprisingly omits most of the key studies regarding potential health effects of wind farms.
Credible peer-reviewed scientific data and government reports in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK have found no evidence that wind farms cause negative health impacts.
The Massachusetts departments of Public Health and Environmental Protection recently commissioned a panel of experts to analyze “the biological plausibility or basis for health effects of turbines (noise, vibration and flicker).”
The experts — who had backgrounds in public health, epidemiology, toxicology, neurology and sleep medicine, neuroscience and mechanical engineering — found no evidence of health effects from wind turbines.
Moreover, wind turbines do not emit greenhouse gases or air pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, which have been shown to have severe human health effects, as well as to cause acid rain and smog.
Wind power is a zero-pollution energy source, making it far friendlier to human health than other more traditional forms of energy production.
John Anderson, Director of Siting Policy, American Wind Energy Association, Washington, DC
Michelle Malkin should get her facts straight (“Hollywood’s Obscene Cancer Test Lie,” PostOpinion, Oct. 17).
Planned Parenthood does screen for other cancers — ever heard about a routine Pap smear to check for possible cervical cancer cells, commonly known as HPV? Where would lower-income women go for these if Planned Parenthood is taken away? It’s not just breast cancer that women can get.
Sharon Wyse, Woodside
I think it’s a bit too late to tell cops to brush up on their firearms tactics (“Cops’ Gun Warning,” Oct. 16).
Recently, two unarmed civilians were killed, and that’s just this year.
The most recent police killing, of an unarmed man who was shot right in front of his girlfriend for no reason, was horrendous.
It’s time to cut out the warnings and start prosecuting cops who shoot unarmed civilians.
Richard Weinstein, Manhattan
I am just wondering if those binders that Mitt Romney mentioned (“Daughter of Big Bird,” Editorial, Oct. 19) are the same binders that Joe Girardi has used to manage the Yankees into irrelevant oblivion.
Carol Hopkins, Manhattan