Behind bars, no special requests for religion

Jan. 27 Associated Press story: “Sholom Rubashkin, manager of the former Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, is being held in the Linn County Jail in Cedar Rapids. An observant Orthodox Jew, his dietary observances prevent him from eating food that is not certified kosher or that is heated in a non-kosher appliance, the rabbis said at a news conference at the National Press Club. They said he has eaten only cold food in his two months behind bars.”

Here is a supposedly religious person and businessman who willfully provided for or otherwise allowed meager wages for illegal immigrant employees while taking jobs and decent wages away from needy Iowan workers.

Shame on those supporters who want this criminal out of jail. This man does not deserve any special consideration of his religious or other desires. He vacated all these considerations when he knowingly sought to defraud and cheat those human beings whom he illegally employed.

Ken Lowen

Central City