KUDOS TO BRODER

To the editor:

On behalf of the patients, caregivers, physicians, and voters in California
who utilize and support that state's Compassionate Use Act of 1996, I offer
kudos to David S. Broder on his courageous column questioning the Bush
Administration's escalating war on medical marijuana (DEA priorities in
question, Nov. 11). Many Americans regard these actions as little different
from the time in our early history when British troops were sent to take
control over our forefathers who chose to exercise their God-given right to
self-govern. It is unsettling to see this constitutionally protected right
so blatantly ignored (see Ninth and Tenth Amendments, Bill of Rights), by
our own government.

By these recent DEA illegal raids, the FBI and Michigan State Police
executions at the Rainbow Farm in Vandalia, Mich., and countless other
atrocities committed in the "War On Us," it's obvious to this reader,
that America is now in the control of tyrants. Indeed, it is
frightening to see the federal government attacking our sick and dying
citizens. By denying the suffering access to beneficial medicine that
is legal under state laws, they are thumbing their noses at state
rights in general. And, at my America!

At a time when attention should be aimed at protecting us from
terrorists, who pose real threats to our safety, they are attacking
their own citizenry. What are they thinking? United we stand? I think
I'll quit waving my flag now.

Cher Ford-McCullough

Gilbertsville, Ky.