I found your article featuring Wang Shih-Chien criticizing Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou's crackdown on ecstasy ("Councilor shaking his head over Ma's ecstacy crackdown," April 9, page 1) interesting. I like to go out dance in nightclubs (without using drugs) and I have witnessed Ma's tactics and am also very critical of them.

On Christmas weekend, police raided a popular club and took all 300 people there down to the police station for urine testing. These people appeared on national television, had their faces on the front page of your paper the next day, and had to wait up to 10 hours at the police station on a Sunday morning for urine tests, when they probably really needed a good sleep.

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