LAWS MUST TARGET PUSHERS

Reporter Editor:

In your newspaper (Reporter, March 22), there was an Associated Press
story from Washington under the headline. "Most believe U.S. is
losing drug war."

What else is new?

If it is a war, it's one we can never hope to win. The countries that
have tough laws and penalties for selling narcotics have few problems
with all the crimes associated with drugs. It doesn't take an
Einstein to figure out we need much tougher narcotic laws.

It's obvious that what we are doing is not working.

Lee Iacocca had the right idea in his autobiography when he suggested
that a second conviction for selling narcotics should be an
"automatic death sentence -- no appeal."

The pushers know the laws better than the average person and rely on
our lenient laws. Laws without severe punishment are meaningless laws
and the pushers know it.

The liberals will scream about a death penalty, but what about all
the countless people the pusher kills every day they continue to sell
drugs? Ask any policeman the number of crimes associated with drugs.

Crispin Nickolas, Vacaville