NUGE A LIBERAL?

It's obvious to this 18-year police veteran who fought in the trenches
of the drug war that Trib columnist and rock musician Ted Nugent never
did ["We could be winning the war on drugs," June 12]. Moreover, he
must not know the good guys have arrested 39 million citizens on drug
charges.

Despite that and the largest prison system in the world, drugs are
cheaper, stronger and easier for our kids to buy. Can Mr. Nugent spell
prohibition? And is he credible when he says this nation has not been
serious enough or diligent enough?

Mr. Nugent loves the liberal, nanny-state policy of drug prohibition.
He supports the policy where citizens are threatened with government
punishment, backed by government police, prosecutors and prisons if
they dare step outside the box of alcohol, cigarettes, Prozac and Valium.

Does he really think that denying citizens marijuana but forcing
people to drink alcohol improves anything?

As I said, obviously he has never been a street cop.

Howard Wooldridge

retired police officer

Dallas

Editor's Note: Howard "Cowboy" Wooldridge served as a police officer
in Lansing, Mich. He is one of the founders of Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition. In 2005 he rode a horse from Los Angeles to New York to
advocate a public health approach to the drug problem.