Pubdate: Wed, 17 Apr 2002
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
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Copyright: 2002 The Dallas Morning News
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Author:  B.L. Sachs, Austin

GUILT BY RELATION

In ruling that federal housing authorities had the right to evict a 
grandmother whose "crime" was providing a home to her drug-abusing (and 
reportedly retarded) granddaughter, the nation's highest court has endorsed 
the novel legal concept of guilt by blood relation. Or maybe not so novel: 
didn't the Nazis do the same thing? Many parents/grandparents in subsidized 
housing now must choose: either evict their kids pre-emptively, or live 
with the possibility of being evicted themselves.

When will those drug-phobic hypocrites in Washington submit themselves to 
the same "zero-tolerance" regime they have imposed on the rest of the 
country? In fairness, when will they enact a law to "clean up" the nation's 
governing classes by evicting any lawmaker or bureaucrat whose spouse or 
dependent has been convicted of a drug offense. After purging the 14 
congressmen who have been arrested for drugs, they can move on to Jeb Bush 
and his older brother, both of whom have children convicted for drug 
violations.

B.L. Sachs

Austin
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