GUILT BY RELATION

In ruling that federal housing authorities had the right to evict a
grandmother whose "crime" was providing a home to her drug-abusing (and
reportedly retarded) granddaughter, the nation's highest court has endorsed
the novel legal concept of guilt by blood relation. Or maybe not so novel:
didn't the Nazis do the same thing? Many parents/grandparents in subsidized
housing now must choose: either evict their kids pre-emptively, or live
with the possibility of being evicted themselves.

When will those drug-phobic hypocrites in Washington submit themselves to
the same "zero-tolerance" regime they have imposed on the rest of the
country? In fairness, when will they enact a law to "clean up" the nation's
governing classes by evicting any lawmaker or bureaucrat whose spouse or
dependent has been convicted of a drug offense. After purging the 14
congressmen who have been arrested for drugs, they can move on to Jeb Bush
and his older brother, both of whom have children convicted for drug
violations.

B.L. Sachs

Austin