HERALD EDITORIAL WAS DEAD WRONG!

I believe that The Herald's March 30 editorial, "Drug property forfeiture
doesn't need Olympia 'fix,'" is wrong, wrong, wrong! I no longer believe
that this isn't relevant to the "drug problem." I see no difference between
your position and supporting the death penalty, even though there is the
possibility an innocent person may be executed.

Just because these laws are used primarily against alleged illegal drug
cases, I cannot believe that this will remain the case. How long will it be
before these laws are extended to such benign things as crimes against the
environment or any other politically incorrect offences?

What is at stake here is no less than basic property rights and whether we
can remain a free people. These laws give too much power to an increasingly
oppressive, bureaucratic oligarchy and they cannot be trusted!

Dean Habowski, Marysville