Don Anderson, our district attorney, has now had plenty of time to investigate and write his reports on alleged violations of the law by Sheriff Frank Rivero.

Instead, Anderson comes out with a poorly written letter that shows his bias against the sheriff. The letter also shows Anderson's lack of education and ability to keep his eye on the ball.

Anderson states that, “I never have, and will not make personal attacks on the sheriff.” And then he proceeds to accuse the sheriff of slander!

I believe Anderson is wasting taxpayers' time and money instead of doing his job. Public faith in his office and the job he is doing is sinking rapidly.

And what have we gotten so far? To fill the void, a small group of uneducated anonymous troll monkeys are jumping up and down and screeching in the Lake County News forums.

What are Internet trolls? According to Tom Postmes, a professor of social and organizational psychology at the universities of Exeter and Groningen, Netherlands, and the author of “Individuality and the Group,” who has been researching the problem for 20 years: “... Trolls aspire to violence, to the level of trouble they can cause in an environment. They want it to kick off. They want to promote antipathetic emotions of disgust and outrage, which morbidly gives them a sense of pleasure.”

The public is getting tired of people making Lake County look bad in their attempt to smear the sheriff. Trust and faith in justice are going down the tubes, and the trolls are cheerleading all the way to the gutter.

When they run out of nasty things to say about the sheriff, they turn their hatred toward anyone speaking out for fairness and justice.

I'd say these trolls have no sense of shame, but in reality they do, because they are afraid to say their antisocial sick opinions and make their false allegations in public.

One would think that even if half their allegations were true, their threatened recall would already be on the ballot, and they would stand up straight like men instead of cowering like rabid rats in the shadows waiting for the biased district attorney to throw them a little moldy cheese.

I'm sure Anderson will do everything in his power to make the sheriff look bad in his reports. Unfortunately, it is a “lose lose” situation brought on by himself.

Unless he outright indicts the sheriff for lawbreaking, there will be more backlash against the district attorney than against the sheriff, for wasting so much time and money, and diminishing the integrity of his office.

And once again our county will look bad in the eyes of Californians throughout the state.

Dwain Goforth lives in Kelseyville, Calif.