DRUG WAR DESPOT

Re "U.S. drug czar now a backer of prevention," Feb. 12: John P. Walters is
correctly titled "czar." The despot's visit to Sacramento shows up-close
that we have failed the test of self-governance.It is not the sound of the
founders rolling in their graves that you hear, but the sound of the last
nails being driven into the coffin of our freedoms. That the leaders of our
community would gather around him is distressing. His lies will not be
exposed, but are being promulgated. That the visit was protested should
have been the news.

As usual, he hides behind the children. Just as with the Soviet Young
Pioneers and the Hitler youth, the insinuation into our schools of the drug
war shows that our children are being prepared not for citizenship, but for
acceptance of slavery in the authoritarian America.

The prevention of truth and treatment for critical thinking are his
objectives. Issues that should be considered by the surgeon general are
instead usurped by the attorney general.

Wise up America - legalize and restore the right of citizens to their
appetites.

- - Jay Bergstrom, Sacramento