DRUG LAW ENFORCERS HAVE RESIDENT'S FULL SUPPORT

Upon reading Pete Blanchard's letter to the editor ("Was drug arrest
just a big show?" Jan. 16), I felt that a response was needed. I
couldn't believe that Pete apparently felt the incident involving the
alleged selling drugs out of Ali Abualburak's house was a "small case."

I was astonished to read how insignificant it was viewed by this young person.

Selling drugs in any form is against the law and, more important, it
can affect the "customers" redirecting them from healthy and
productive lives to ones of social and financial destruction. Once
they become "hooked," it's now the taxpayers who will be required to
finance the burden to meet all the social and medical issues
associated with these customers' use of drugs.

I supported the Back Mountain police and Luzerne County Drug Task
Force in their action on Jan. 7 to stop this supposed drug sale operation.

I'm sure all law-abiding citizens in the Back Mountain region want to
continue to support our law enforcement officials as they continue to
shut down these types of operations and hold those accountable to the
fullest letter of the law.

Joe Hardisky Dallas