THE DUNCE CAP

To the Editor:

Thank you for publishing Mike Plylar's outstanding letter, [Ashcroft's
priorities, May 30]. Terrorists may be able to hijack and crash our
passenger planes into our largest office buildings and Pentagon, killing
thousands, but 50 of our F.B.I. agents put a couple pot smokers out of
commission.

Attorney General John Ashcroft has a message to send to our children: Those
in charge of protecting our country are complete idiots.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.