Letter: Don’t blame 9-11 on drug abusers

Monday, Jan. 28, 2002 | 8:41 a.m.

This is in response to John Tominsky's Jan. 9 letter:

It is ludicrous to write, as Tominsky did, that, "Indirectly, the American illegal drug user is responsible for the deaths of September 11 and future deaths." Even if drug money was used to finance the terrorist attack on America, that just supplied the means. The motive was supplied by the terrorists themselves, by their radical hatred for America. That hatred drives them to finance their terrorism by any means. Tominsky's accusation that illegal drug users are the enemy takes the blame off of those who are ultimately responsible for this tragedy.

So put the blame where the blame lies -- with terrorists. They are the ones who flew the planes on that fateful day and they are the ones who will continue their fight against America by all means. For we are their enemy, drug money or not.

JOAN KLEIN

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