Editor:

Where is our Intrepid Crusader when you need him? I'm referring to Rep. Scott McInnis. Recently, he tilted at a windmill called "The Poetics of Pornography" and got that class set aside at Fort Lewis College. He protected a few adult college students from the ravages of mind pollution from pornography.

Meanwhile, a far greater threat to millions of children and adults escaped the Intrepid Crusader's notice. I am referring to those horribly dangerous Harry Potter books by Rowling, "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy by Tolkien and the two movies made from two of the eight books.

Even the least discerning critics see that Rowling and Tolkien could not possibly have written these tomes of wizardry, witchcraft and worse unless they were in league with the Devil.

The case against Rowling is the most compelling. Here she was: a waitress, a single mom and a young woman. How could such a neophyte write books that have sold around the world and in the millions of copies without either divine or evil help? (We can rule out divine help because the books contain wizardry, witchcraft and worse.) That leaves us with only one inescapable conclusion: Rowling made a pact with the Devil!

The case against Tolkien is more difficult to make. He was an Oxford Don, a member of the Inklings, and a renowned linguist. It took Tolkien years of hard, patient labor to conceive and write the four books. Could a mere man have written about such evil without the "ultimate hand of evil" as a helpmate? I think not. Tolkien is guilty, too.

More alert crusaders sounded the call to action. Some burned the books. Others demonstrated against the writers and boycotted the movies. These "true crusaders" discerned the difference between the miniscule danger of one small class at an almost unknown college and the humongous calamity of the evils in these books.

McInnis, grab your cape, joisting lance and cross. The multitudes await your leadership. After you stomp out these evils, I suggest Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy as worthy, next opponents, since they use wizardry!

Sincerely,

Hal Mansfield