Expect Santa To Write From Newark, Not North Pole

The "NEWARK" ( NJ ) reference in the title of the article is not that funny. In fact it's an insult!

i do not think that people with the kind of responcibility where children are concerned should have missed this sex offender when checking backgrounds this is just one of the many ways that the sex offender gets by and keeps on doing their thing. i feel that the gov. should not take it away but insist on stricter checking and let this be still the north pole to recieve mail from. kids today hear so much from news that the little folks should have the right to believe in santa and get letters from the north pole. we need to stay in constant prayer for our country and please for our troops who are takeing care of us and hope and pray the gov. will find out that letting pettifiles on the streets just brings on more problems

I HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYEN...IT IS ALL TRUE..WE WOULDNT IN THIS MESS,IF WE ALL FROM THE BEGINING TELL THE CHILDREN ALL.GOOD GIFTS COME FROM GOD...NOT A MAN IN A RED SUIT...DONT YELL AT ME YET..I BELIEVE THERE WAS A SANTA UNTIL I WAS ABOUT 12.....THEN I JUST WAS GLAD I GOT AGIFT ON CHRISTMAS MORNEN.. THERS IS A MAN WHOS NAME IS WAS CHRIS KREKLE(HOPE I SPELLED THAT RIGHT) HE WAS A RICH MAN.AND ON CHRISTMAS EVE HE WOULD PUT ON HIS RED COAT!! AND HE WOULD GO AROUND TO THE NIEGBORS ON HIS STREET,THAT DIDNT HAVE ANYTHING,,HE WOULD LEAVE PRESENT FOR THEM.....THEN PEOPLE GOT NOISEY,AND WONDER WERE DID EVERY PRESENT COME FROM..COULDNT LEAVE ANYTHING ALONE...SOME ONE SPOTTED A MAN IN A RED COAT(LATE ONE NITE LEAVEN A NIEGBORS HOUSE) HE WENT TO CONFRONT THE KIND MAN.....THE MAN WAS UPSET THAT SOMEONE EVEN CARED WHO GAVE SOMEONE WHO NOTHING....THAT HE STOP DOING..EVERYONE STARTED LEAVING LETTERS ON HIS PORCH...TELLEN HIM WHAT THEY WANTED!!! SO THE MAN THAT STARTED THE WHOLE THING AND SPOILED THE TRUE MEAANING..HE TOOK THE LETTERS,,ANAME HIMSELF SANTA CLAUSE!!! HO HO HO HO!! KIDS MAKE OUT LIST A MILE LONG..AND NOT THE MAN IN THE SUIT..FILLS THE ODER.......WELL YOU KNOW WHO!!!HO HO ON US!!! THAT HOW SANTA CLAUSE GOT STRARTED.......BUT THE TRUE MEANING IS GIVING....NOT A REQUEST...BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT..YOU KNOW WHO CAN GIVE.......AMEN>>>. YEP YOU ARE RITE..OUR KIDS ARE IN DANGER ANYWAY .......BUT IF WE WERE TAUGHT THE TRUTH FROM THE BEGING OF TIME.....THE SEX OFFENDERS......WOULDNT HAVE OUR KIDS ADDRESS,IN THERE HANDS...GOD HELP US ALL...AMEN JUST MY THOUGHT ON THE MATTER.........

Agreed, the whole situation is so stupid. Just background check all of your volunteers, is it that hard?!?

RIGHT ON!!!!

I'm just a little older than my younger sister, who I believe still thinks there is a Santa. She is twelve years old. Santa is still a huge aspect of childhood, and we all grow up too fast. This writing letters to Santa gives kids hope that there is still magic in this world of lies that we live in today. I can't be sure, but think that I used to write letters to the North Pole when I was five or six. If this program has been up and running for the past fifty-five years, just becuase one sex offender gets in just means that they need to regulate who gets these addresses and names. The North Pole is special, keep the tradition alive..

You are only a child for a little while. You have the whole rest of your life to be an adult (responsibilities, a job, bills, etc.) We need to embrace the innocence of childhood and let the town of North Pole, Alaska continue to create a wonderful memory that will last far into adulthood. I understand and definately agree that we need to protect the children but we need to find another way instead of shutting down what the town so generously does for our children. I wonder how the person giving the order to stop this tradition is going to explain to his/her own children or grandchildren.

Agreed, the whole situation is so stupid. Just background check all of your volunteers, is it that hard?!? YES, IT IS. Imposters got into the White House dinner last week, and I doubt that these background checks that you propose could be very thorough, given the funding and charitable nature of the enterprise.

First off im not sticking up for any sex offender out there. they are sex offenders for a good reason (given that yes some are innocent) but the article did not specify whether or not he was a child predator. for all you know his girlfriend could have made up some story and had him convicted, or yes you're right he could have been a child predator. Given that any sex offender should not be around children that's true, but do not sit there and talk about him like you know him. the people involved in the case will handle it, so read your article and let it be. What's the big deal? A sex offender was just taken away from a position in which he could possibly hurt a child. now what's wrong with that? But still none of us know any of the key facts. so we can all shut up.

Amen sister!!! hang'em high and let's move on and let ours kids enjoy their young lives.

Thank you sooooo much Sandy!!!!!! You dont know how much that is aprreciated I have an * year old who is slowly losing the santa beleif and this was my last chance!!! you saved Christmas!!!!!!!

Cheryl, you freakin' grinch. This has nothing to do with Palin. It's about kids and the last chance at fantasy before your Obama destroys the real world. I've taken my kids to North Pole Alaska and the folks there are genuine and good people. It IS a good thing the FBI caught the guy before anything happened but why did they wait until NOW to stop the program? Send the freakin' letters to North Pole. I hear they're looking at corporate donations to cover the postage which they estimated at just a few thousand dollars. The people there volunteer to answer the letters. Send them $20 to help. Oh I forgot Cheryl, you'd probably want to send the $20 to Obama to help cover his health care bill.

Cheryl,
LOL!
Thall,
A little sensitive? It's a joke; lighten up!