The arrest of DeArkland for lawfully growing medicinal marijuana
clearly demonstrates the contempt of the Sacramento and Placer
sheriffs for the will of the people, who overwhelmingly supported the
medical marijuana initiative, Proposition 215. The terrorist
sheriff-bureaucrats who tormented this ailing old man ignored not only
DeArkland's legal rights, but also their sworn duty to conform to all
laws -- even those they dislike. Like punks who prey on the elderly
and infirm, the despicable conduct of these deputies was so onerous
and immoral that mere verbal condemnation is woefully inadequate.
Every "officer" should be fired and forever banished from employment
as law enforcement officers.

Their malevolence is not only disgraceful, but a threat to the rule of
law and the ideals of American democracy.

Stephen Konnoff,
Sacramento