GOVERNMENT CONTROL

Regarding Leonard Pitts' article of June 12 in which he blamed the
late President Reagan for turning his (Pitts') community into a
killing field of crack heads, where children were orphaned, mothers
were prostitutes and fathers were zombies.

I wonder if Mr. Pitts has considered that, just perhaps, these people
in his community that he described could have ended up in such
circumstances because of personal choices that they made in their
individual lives.

To blame President Reagan and his administration is both ludicrous and
inane unless Mr. Pitts is advocating that the government start making
personal choices for each individual in how to lead his or her life.
Is that what he is suggesting? That smacks as a form of government and
control that I don't think any American would condone.

Harold D. Eyerly

Pensacola