John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties.

• Author: Rogers, Pat
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

Thanks for John Berlau's piece, "John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties" (October). It is nice to see that I am not the only person who thinks Kerry is too right-wing to pass himself off as a Democrat.

In 2000 Gore and the Democrats ran to the right and thought no one would care about the millions disenfranchised by their intolerant Drug War policy. The Florida voter purge lists should have taught them something, but didn't. The Democrats still support the policies that have been disenfranchising nonconformists for the past 34 years.

John Kerry has built his entire political career resume on the high conviction rates of the Jim Crow Drug War. while still with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, white boy Kerry stopped the organization from joining up with the civil rights movement. He then went on to become a Drug War prosecutor to rehabilitate his rightwing credentials from his anti-war youth. As a U.S. Senator, Kerry wrote the legislation that resulted in the shooting down of innocent American missionaries over Peru, killing a mother and child. This even though the best minds of both parties told presidents going back to the 1980s that the policy was dangerous and stupid. But nothing is too dangerous or too stupid for John Kerry the Drug Warrior.

Pat Rogers

Allentown, PA

I was disappointed by John Berlau's article for two reasons. First, I was expecting a justified tirade on Mr. Kerry's "dark record" on self-protection and Second Amendment issues. Instead 1 found a tirade against his record on, essentially, Fourth...