ADVICE TO HARPER: LET IT BE

Re: "PM gets by with a little help from Yo-Yo Ma," The Journal, Oct. 4.

Stephen Harper playing Beatles music doesn't work. I am deeply
offended by this hypocritical propaganda. He should have choked when
he sang, "I get high with a little help from my friends."

The Beatles freely admitted using pot. Paul McCartney spent 10 days in
a Tokyo jail for smuggling over half a pound of pot into Japan.
Richard Nixon tried to get John Lennon deported from the U. S. over a
minor cannabis charge in the U. K.

Now, Harper is trying to pass a mandatory minimum sentence for
marijuana cultivation. Meanwhile, the real gateway drugs --tobacco and
alcohol--are killing us.

Harper will never be hip or cool, and there should be a mandatory
minimum jail sentence for politicians who pretend they are. In a
different time and at a different place, the Harper types would have
people like the Beatles silenced or in jail.

Brian Burchnall, Edmonton