TRUE CONSERVATIVE

Bravo to Jim Hightower for his outstanding op/ed, "Drug War finds its
Atilla" (6-06-0l). However, I disagree with his description of John
Walters as a "right wing ideologue." Right wing implies conservative.
As a "true" conservative, I am insulted by the hypocrisy of someone
who supports the policy of prohibition being considered a
conservative.

Prohibition is the policy of the government dictating to adult
citizens what substances they may or may not put into their own
bodies. True conservatives do not support the policy of prohibition.
True conservatives believe in the principals of freedom and liberty
as declared in the Declaration of Independence. True conservatives do
not believe the government should attempt to protect adult citizens
from themselves.

Prohibition is certainly not a policy that our founding fathers would
support or tolerate.

True conservatives believe the people should be protected from the
government: not the other way around.

Kirk Muse, Vancouver, Wash.