LETTER PROMPTS ANGER, SADNESS

It was with a great amount of anger and sadness that I read Bill
Smeathers' poignant letter: "Terrorism and American justice" on Sept.
1.

I felt anger and sadness because our once free country is now a police
state.

When our police can and do kick in the doors, in the middle of the
night, of American citizens because they suspect that the occupants
are using some "unapproved" natural herb and medicine, we no longer
have a free country.

Perhaps we should demand that the words "freedom" and "justice" be
removed from all of our national monuments and government building.
Perhaps we should send the Statue of Liberty back to France or else
rename it the "Statue of Hypocrisy." The most incarcerated nation in
history of human civilization does not deserve a Statue of Liberty.

A country where its adult citizens are not free to self medicate even
in the privacy of their own homes, does not deserve a Statue of Liberty.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.