Pubdate: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 Source: Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) Copyright: 2011 The Times Leader Contact: http://www.timesleader.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/933 Author: Joe Hardisky Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n033/a10.html DRUG LAW ENFORCERS HAVE RESIDENT'S FULL SUPPORT Upon reading Pete Blanchard's letter to the editor ("Was drug arrest just a big show?" Jan. 16), I felt that a response was needed. I couldn't believe that Pete apparently felt the incident involving the alleged selling drugs out of Ali Abualburak's house was a "small case." I was astonished to read how insignificant it was viewed by this young person. Selling drugs in any form is against the law and, more important, it can affect the "customers" redirecting them from healthy and productive lives to ones of social and financial destruction. Once they become "hooked," it's now the taxpayers who will be required to finance the burden to meet all the social and medical issues associated with these customers' use of drugs. I supported the Back Mountain police and Luzerne County Drug Task Force in their action on Jan. 7 to stop this supposed drug sale operation. I'm sure all law-abiding citizens in the Back Mountain region want to continue to support our law enforcement officials as they continue to shut down these types of operations and hold those accountable to the fullest letter of the law. Joe Hardisky Dallas - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom