TASK DEFINITION: Categorize the comment on the basis of obscenity. If the comment is obscene output Yes, otherwise output No.
PROBLEM: You are absolutely right.  Mandatory parole is stupid, expensive, and probably not constitutional.

SOLUTION: Yes

PROBLEM: "President Obama has pretty much destroyed our country." 
Could you give us some particulars? Like how he saved us from the Great Bush Recession of 2008-10,  lowered the unemployment rate, killed bin Laden, more than halved the deficit, reversed Bush's shameful foreign policies and improved our image world-wide... The list goes on and on, Mr. Lynch. Please think about what you write before you put it in the paper.

SOLUTION: No

PROBLEM: The writer shouldn't feel too sorry for Chile because they turned against their home-grown socialist problem in the 1970s, rather than become another technological and economic backwater like Cuba.  Today Chile is arguably one of the best-run countries in the western hemisphere, economically and politically.  Arguably they are even more 'progressive' than the USA - after all, they have already elected a woman president!  ;-)

Chile is not a 'third-world' country by any stretch of the imagination, despite what the writer of this letter implies.

SOLUTION:
No