Letter: Signs of a larger ill

Editor, Daily News:

SOS (Save Our Schools) indeed.

On June 8 you published a letter from Tom Briscoe, co-chairman of Save Our Schools and a teacher at Lely High School, in defense of Manny Touron, Immokalee High School principal and soccer assistant coach.

The next day comes the revelation that two more over-age players were discovered to be playing on the team he trains.

As Collier County School Board member Linda Abbott says, "The system failed."

Nobody has addressed the question of how long has this been going on. How many aspiring young soccer aficionados have lost slots on the team because of ringers? How many competing schools have been denied a level playing field?

This deserves the attention of reporters and police.

It also points to the need for a tamperproof national ID card.

As it stands, terrorist cells can hide in our high schools and elsewhere for years without fear of detection, nurtured by the society they seek to destroy. Let us swallow our politics and vote for a law-and-order Congress.

Give them the tools to protect all of us. Thank you.

Mario DeMicheli , Naples