Pubdate: Thu, 04 Apr 2002
Source: Baltimore Sun (MD)
Copyright: 2002 The Baltimore Sun, a Times Mirror Newspaper.
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Author: Michael Klapp

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
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