Pubdate: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 Source: Pasadena Star-News, The (CA) Copyright: 2004 Pasadena Star News Contact: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206%257E11852%257E,00.html Website: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/728 Author: Kirk Muse Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1994/a05.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Clarence+Aaron SAUNDERS RIGHT ON I'm writing about Debra Saunders outstanding column: "With little chance of pardon, Aaron sentence is barbaric' (Dec. 26). Clarence Aaron, who did nothing more than introduce two people who happened to sell the wrong (politically selected) drugs, is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. That's the same sentence as the man from Washington state who killed 48 women by strangling them to death; the same sentence as someone who kidnaps a young child from her home, rapes that child, tortures and then kills that child. Our war on certain politically selected drugs has turned the word "justice' into an empty word on monuments and currency and a word mouthed by hypocritical politicians. George W. Bush will not pardon Clarence Aaron because there is no political gain in doing so. George W. Bush is not a compassionate man, but rather an evil, wicked and cruel man. Kirk Muse Mesa, AZ - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake