PUBLIC FORUM NO SYMPATHY.

How monstrously outrageous of the Rosenkrantzes to proclaim their son, a vicious murderer, has ``paid his debt to society.'' They are suing to get the murderer paroled. No way.

So Robert Rosenkrantz is repentant? Too late, particularly for his victim and his victim's family. Gov. Davis did the right thing for a change when he denied parole for this murderer.

The Rosenkrantzes should be required to pay back to us, the taxpayers, all the costs and fees associated with this frivolous lawsuit.

- Steve and Diane Pfahler

Chatsworth

Cop commentary

L.A.P.D. - License to Arrest, Perjure and Destroy - 'nuff said.

- Steve Medina

Canoga Park

No disclosure?

I was shocked by Wednesday's article (``Bond project lacks builder,'' Daily News) which pointed out that city bureaucrats once again withheld vital information from voters.

If Prop. F had been an offering of $532 million of private securities that the city asked us to buy, the SEC would have had plenty to say about disclosure. Yet when we as voters are asked to approve bond issues, we don't know what we might end up with, since similar standards don't apply.

I propose that any future propositions for indebtedness meet the same stringent rules for disclosure that the SEC imposes on other security transactions.

- Peter F. Kriz

Woodland Hills

Fuzzy math 

Re: Thomas Sheehan's letter of Nov.14, in which he states that 49 states voted for Bush and only ``liberal activist'' California went for Gore, is a laugh. The facts are that 19 or 20 states went for Gore and New York gave Gore his biggest margin. Bush is not the candidate the majority want. Mr. Sheehan should move to Texas so its awesome school system could teach him how to read a chart with numbers on it. Fuzzy math, Mr. Sheehan?

- Richard Allen 

Lake View Terrace

Patience, please

No matter which political persuasion the voter embraces, Americans live in the best country in the world. We have the constitutional right to vote, as well as the right to expect an accurate vote count.

This voting right is not fraught with military coups or oppressive governing with threats of hardship or other perilous possibilities.

- N.J. Herron

Van Nuys

Curses

This reminds me of the old Chinese curse: ``May you live in interesting times.''

- Diane Silver

Van Nuys

Democracy at work

Using the courts is a legitimate way for both candidates to protect their interests. Let's face the facts that this is an unusual election and an extraordinary piece of history in the making. Let's enjoy the experience of watching our democracy at work.

- Mike Cornner

Northridge

Let's get real

Vice President Gore stated in his Wednesday televised speech that it was important that the recount of votes in selected Florida counties be done by ``real people.'' This statement was issued after the Gore campaign made a nationwide call for 500 lawyers to come to Florida to observe the vote count. The call was only made for attorneys, not any other professions. According to this, the reinvented definition of a real person is an attorney.

- Bob McKay 

North Hills

Nader no factor

Democrats scapegoating Ralph Nader for their problems should look closer to home to assign blame. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that it would be hard for the Democrats to win a national election without first securing their support base.

Yet the Democratic Party thought it could pursue policies - international trade agreements and welfare ``reform'' come to mind - opposed by poor people, labor, environmentalists, idealistic youth and other liberals and still safely take for granted enough of these people's votes to comfortably prevail over the Republicans. That may have worked for the liberal leaders, but some of the rank and file seem to have jumped ship.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, the fault lies not in our (Green) stars, but in ourselves.

- Myrna Hill

Sylmar

Noises off

Re ``Study: LAX expansion would hurt minorities,'' (Daily News, Nov. 16):

The so-called ``environmental justice'' movement claims that minority neighborhoods are somehow ``targeted'' by polluters seeking sites for their plants.

This complaint gets basic economics precisely backward: polluting factories and other facilities, like noisy airports, are sited where property values are low. Thus one does not see smelters planned for Beverly Hills; the land is too expensive.

Also, pre-existing polluters in a given locale tend to depress the property values - making them attractive to people with low incomes. In other words, the poor tend to preferentially - and voluntarily - gravitate into areas that have low housing and land costs. Then they suddenly find a group of professional troublemakers to claim that reality should arrange itself for their benefit alone.

LAX was there before the bellyachers at ``Communities for a Better Environment.'' For the benefit of the rest of Los Angeles, expansion of LAX is obviously a good thing.

- James F. Glass

Chatsworth

Charen's problem

I resent Mona Charen's statement in her Nov. 16 column that ``no one believes that the Gore campaign is acting in good faith.''

If votes aren't going to be counted honestly when there is some question of irregularities, why bother to vote?

- Marion Mandeson

Glendale

Rubber stamp

A main premise made by the ``Putting out fires'' editorial Nov. 15 appears to be the poor state of Los Angeles' finances. Apparently the city of Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency feels no constraints on their spending. When a group of concerned public volunteers such as the North Hollywood Project Area Committee (structured comparable to the upcoming Neighborhood Councils) criticizes the CRA for its extravagant use of taxpayer money, the City Council disbands the publicly elected PAC.

In its place the City Council will be allowing the CRA to handpick members of a Citizens Advisory Committee to rubber-stamp the CRA's lavish use of our taxes.

Neighborhood Councils beware.

- Victor N. Viereck

Chairman, North Hollywood Project Area Committee

Confused analysis

In his essay praising Adelphia Communications' decision to discontinue carrying sex channels (``Adelphia takes moral stand,'' Opinion, Nov. 8), Don Schultz seems confused. His stated goal is to drive producers of ``adult entertainment'' from his neighborhood. Adelphia's action would have no effect on where this product is produced.

Schultz states he has no doubt that ``when our Founding Fathers drafted the First Amendment, it was not their intent to protect the rights of the adult entertainment industry.'' He is wrong. It was their intent to protect unpopular speech. Schultz's attack itself is evidence that it is precisely the rights of this industry (and others that might be assailed) that the First Amendment was adopted to protect.

Adelphia's choice protects no one. Sex channels on cable are not available for free. They are scrambled unless the subscriber pays a fee. Those who do not wish to be exposed to them need not subscribe. They are not forced upon anyone.

- Morris E. Schorr

Woodland Hills