SENSENBRENNER'S BILL RIGHT OUT OF '1984'

Dear Editor: House Resolution 1528, otherwise known as the Safe Access to
Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2005, which Rep. James
Sensenbrenner introduced on the floor of the U.S. House in April, should be
opposed by every freedom-loving citizen.

This legislation is right out of Orwell's "1984," making it a crime for
citizens not to report the suspected actions of neighbors and family
members. The U.S. is already fast becoming a nation of informers. This
bill, if passed into law, would make our society even more treacherous and
paranoid.

I am hopeful that Wisconsinites will voice their disgust at this
totalitarian scheme. The proposed law features the kind of mandatory
minimums the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against in January, and it needs to
be stopped in its tracks. I certainly hope that the majority of Americans
don't share the desire of Rep. Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, to create
a society that can only be described as being much worse than the United
States during the excesses of the McCarthy years.

Dan A. Goldstein Madison