LEGALIZE DRUGS; USE POLICE ELSEWHERE

The FBI and an assortment of other enforcement agencies are putting new
emphasis on solving the three murders committed by a sniper two years ago.

The government should already be fully committed to protecting us from
dangerous people.

If authorities, bogged down in the unending quagmire called the war on
drugs, were not distracted by their present unconstitutional "emphasis" on
spying, inspecting, surveillance, capturing, confiscating, prosecuting,
incarcerating, paroling, drug testing and forced treatment of nonviolent
citizens in our society, then of course we could direct these vast
resources toward the apprehension of violent people like the sniper, who
actually violate the rights of other individuals.

We could also do more productive things with these freed-up monies and
able-bodied workers.

It is thus economically sound, morally correct to repeal all the laws that
criminalize drugs.

Simon McClure, Bridgeport