Hello everybody!

I don't know who Bonnie Bluestein of Pasadena is, but bless her heart! She wrote an excellent letter! :)

Sincerely,

Duane J. Roberts
duaneroberts92804@yahoo.com


The following "letter to the editor" was printed in the Wednesday, June 22, 2005 issue of The Los Angeles Times (OC edition) on page B12:

Police Actions Raise Questions About Rights

Re "Minuteman Flap Leads To Home Search," June 18: The Garden Grove police apparently used a missing flashlight as an excuse to violate Theresa Dang's 4th Amendment right to protection from unreasonable searches, in order to chill the exercise of her 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech and assembly. In so doing, and in using mounted officers to disperse a legal (if "raucous") May 25th protest against the anti-immigrant Minutemen, they trampled on the rights of all of us all. Their claim to be "applying the law equally" is just about as believable as the excuses we were given for going to war on Iraq.

BONNIE BLUESTEIN
Pasadena