Entire Metro system needs to be revamped Re: “Three top Metro leaders give up agency vehicles,” May 2
“Action speaks louder than words.” In the case of Metro’s top executives, their promises are shallow and empty. None of them have done anything to deserve their lavish pay, official vehicles or other bonuses at the expense of taxpayers.
They should be replaced with a small task force of midlevel professionals who are given the task of reorganizing the entire transit system to increase efficiency. This will also save the government millions of dollars.
The present Metro system is a source of accidents, constant systemic delays and never-ending seasonal track repairs. I believe there is no alternative to a complete revamping of the entire system, and the sooner the better for all Metro riders.
It’s a grave injustice when Metro executives enjoy undeserved privileges while federal employees and other ordinary citizens have to endure hours of waiting at bus stops and Metrorail stations.
Sayed S. Shah
Lorton
Attorney general is on wrong side of DNA issue
Re: “Maryland AG asks appeals court to reconsider DNA act ruling,” May 1
Another stupid Maryland law was ruled unconstitutional by the courts. Last month, it was Woollard v. Sheridan, a concealed carry “may issue” versus “shall issue” case. Now it’s the collection of DNA from arrestees, which is clearly a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler’s comment that the judge’s ruling “undermines important public safety objectives” illustrates his inability to understand our inalienable rights against “unreasonable search and seizure.”
Every day, bureaucrats like Gansler usurp a little bit more of our personal rights in the name of “security.” They fail to realize that more liberty and more freedom will create more safety for Maryland citizens.
We need an attorney general who is more knowledgeable about our constitutional rights and reveres freedom and liberty, not one whose daily goal is to push us further toward a dystopian police state.
Jeff Underwood,
Simpsonville, Md.
Romney is almost as bad as Obama
Re: “Romney to give commencement speech at Liberty University,” April 19
As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney signed same-sex marriage into law, although he was under no obligation to do so. When asked earlier this year at the South Carolina debate whether as president he would have signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which lifted the military ban on sodomy, he glibly replied, “Yes, I would have.”
Romney has also facilitated the murder of children through the institution of $50 co-pay abortions, the subjugation of citizens under a torrent of phony, liberalized legislative enactments, and the destruction of our religious freedom under an emerging theocracy of secular humanism.
Outside of President Obama himself, I cannot think of a more ruthless political figure to ever have held executive office in the United States. For Liberty University to offer its “stamp of approval” to such a man is a disgrace.
Joseph A. Glean
Alexandria
