Aug. 24, 2006
 
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bush’s Drug ‘Czar’ John Walters Just as Incompetent as ‘Brownie’
 
To the editor: Wow, it’s good to see the Bush administration’s National Director of Drug Control Policy is at least as up to his job as was former FEMA head, Michael “Brownie” Brown who, besides being Bush’s campaign chairman, had only his failed tenure as head of an Arabian Horsemen’s association to recommend him for overseeing the worst national disaster in American history. Who are these people?
 
John Walters, the drug czar, says our biggest problem is marijuana. I don’t know about you, but I haven't seen a lot of weed fiends running around raping and shooting people. Walters was previously the president of the Philanthropy Roundtable, obviously well equipping him to work towards his ambitious goal of a 10% reduction in teen and adult drug use over a TWO YEAR period.
 
Focusing on marijuana, of course. I'm sure our local police departments were happy to read Walter’s comments that the solution to drug abuse is simple: If we have an underlying crack problem, we have to deal with the crack distribution in that area. Wow, what insight! Obviously the residents of those ivory towers at Michigan State University, where Walters was a professor, don’t suffer from any real-world experience.
 
Tony Seaton
Huntington, WV