Prison Terms
Cops beating a lawbreaker on the streets are innocent. Shop owner shooting a teen-ager at point blank range serves no time. Teen-ager on his way to a Grateful Dead concert to take LSD and listen to music gets 15 years in the slammer.
Isn’t it great to live in a free society that values peace and abhors violence?
KEITH McMULLEN
Ventura
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