Jailed Protester
Kudos to Mary Byers Lopez (“War Protester Unrepentant Despite Languishing in Jail,” front page, June 4) for a singular voice against President Bush’s killing of 200,000 Iraqis and unleashing the dogs of destruction and disease against other human beings.
No better example is needed for what is intrinsically wrong with justice in the United States than to realize that those who object to killing are put in jail and those who advocate it and employed it in Panama and Iraq are acclaimed national heroes.
Something is rotten in such a presidency, and the smell, like a toxic dump, seeps into all levels of the land, polluting the halls of justice infinitely more than the cross that Mary Byers Lopez put on the steps of the Federal Building.
JOHN HERMANN, Long Beach
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