BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE WITH DRUG DOGS

If effectiveness is your moral compass, then why not start house to
house searches of all citizens by the DEA?

Regarding your editorial on using drug-sniffing dogs in schools, your
logic is troubling. You state "If the searches are effective, we'd
like to see all districts institute them."

If effectiveness is your moral compass, then why not start house to
house searches of all citizens by the DEA? I'm certain that this
would be quite effective in eliminating many drugs. And as for noting
the Supreme Court's support for the drug dogs in schools, just a
cursory glance at history shows the fallibility of that noble body
(support of slavery, segragation, etc) .

In the final analysis, we are teaching our children that government
can and should use the most extreme measures to protect us from
ourselves. We should instead be teaching them the wisdom of those
like Frederick Douglass who said, "Find out just what people will
quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and
wrong which will be imposed on them."

Mike Wiley
Marshall, Tx.