DON'T MAKE RESIDENTS PAY FOR CRIMES OTHERS COMMIT

Now that the Supreme Court has held that punishing the innocent for the
drug offenses of others is constitutional, it reinforces the notion that
the justices are cruel as well as corrupt ("Court upholds public housing
evictions," March 27).

If there is any justice, perhaps we can now evict President George W. Bush
from his public housing, thanks to his daughters' alcohol law convictions.

Of course, that won't happen, but perhaps we can embarrass our gutless
Congress into making needed changes in public housing law to re- establish
the principle that people are innocent until convicted of an act they
actually performed.

Michael Klapp,
Baltimore