To the editor:
In your Feb. 14 Dispatches essay, "American’s rights are under attack," you recognize the significance of Thomas Jefferson’s input to the Constitutional Convention that sought "to prevent the creation of a permanent political elite" and the need to protect people from "overzealous government." You acknowledge Thomas Jefferson as "probably history’s most eloquent interpreter of what has become the American concepts of freedom and liberty." And you appropriately fear the erosion of freedom by the unjust Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003.
Then in your editorial you advocate the state Legislature circumvent its constitutional constraints by engaging in a "shell game" that would dismiss the state’s constitution as merely an "irritant," in order to impose upon the state’s citizens an increase in taxes. Your advocacy is so corrupt and vile that I (one who values freedom) view it as borderline treason. Your cavalier dismissal of due process in order to implement the single biggest imposition on American’s freedom, taxes, is gut-wrenchingly disgusting.
Truly, you can’t have meant what you said. It should also be noted that our American hero, Thomas Jefferson, great spokesman for freedom and equality, was himself a keeper of slaves, proving that whenever people have power some people are more equal than others. Enough said about the human condition.
David Zebuhr
Cranbury

