THERE'S MORE TO TULIA DRUG BUST THAN HAS BEEN IN THE PAPERS

Ruben Navarrette, in his Aug. 31 column, says the drug bust in Tulia was
just racist and not an effort to rid a town of drugs. Some people in Tulia
said the arrest of several underage people drinking beer was racist because
most had Hispanic surnames.

The prosecutor in Tulia must have been good to get juries to send people to
prison for a very long time just on the word of a stranger. There had to be
more that is not making the papers.

I might be naive, but why would 34 of the 46 arrested plead guilty to
crimes they did not commit?

I do agree with Navarrette that Texas Attorney General John Cornyn opened
an investigation into the arrests because he thinks he is losing votes in
his bid for the U.S. Senate.

Joseph A. Graham

Amarillo