REPREHENSIBLE

Editor:

On Thursday, the US House passed an historic bill to reform abuses in civil
asset forfeiture carried out in the name of the War on Some Drugs.

Reps. Nancy Johnson, Christopher Shays, and Jim Maloney voted "no" on the
forfeiture reform bill.

Unjustifiable government taking of people's property should be reprehensible
to politicians of any stripe. Apparently these politicians are not
purloining enough of America's productivity via the tired mechanism of
taxation; new tactics are called for.

Outright theft is the next logical step.

MIKE GOGULSKI

Hamden