ABOVE THE LAW

Re: the Nov. 15 National Brief titled "Special treatment denied."

It was noted with some interest by a couple of the peasants out at F.C.I.
Tucson (Prison Row on South Wilmot Road) that the new elite are, as
aristocracy should be, subjected to a different set of laws.

Twenty-one-year-old Morgan Grams (son of Sen. Rod Grams, R.-Minn.) was
caught driving a vehicle in which 10 bags of marijuana were found (weight
of drug not reported). Grams, an adult, but a scion of one of the ruling
class, was taken home but not charged.

In the vehicle with him, as a passenger, was a 17-year-old peasant. He, of
course, was charged with possession of nine of the bags and was punished at
a juvenile detention center. The tenth bag of marijuana, found directly
under Grams' seat, magically was not counted.

This is but one of many such incidences involving either members of the
ruling class or their "get" who are treated differently than we peasants.

But that is how it is supposed to be, is it not? I mean, what good is it to
be a member of the new aristocracy if you get treated like one of the slaves?

David A. Nichols