To the Editor:
As published in your paper, the Fairfax County police described heroin to be a “big problem now” which is “definitely here” amongst certain high school age students as presented to the Lake Braddock Secondary School PTA (“Youth Heroin Use Described As ‘a Big Problem’, Connection, Dec. 10-16, 2015). A police officer was quoted as saying the friend of a deceased 16 year old user telling him her friend said “I get everything I want, it’s handed to me. I don’t have no excitement.” Ah, among the temptations encountered by the children of those with money to burn can include self-entitlement, unearned privilege, lack of accountability, fake friends and worst of all: deadly drugs.
But then, that describes the elite electronic and print media as well as certain elected and appointed bureaucrats. With this real problem in mind, President Obama recently decided that releasing 6,000 Federal convicts, mostly incarcerated as major drug dealers, whom liberals view as a “non-violent criminals” undoubtedly will have no negative impact on society, but rather just “fundamentally transform America” for the worse. Some of these 6,000, no doubt, will be back peddling non-violently (or violently) heroin on the streets of Fairfax County. You can add to that the 104,000 illegal aliens released from jail by Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Insecurity in 2014 (the figures for 2015 of course are still pending/increasing). The drug flow, of course, across the US/Mexican border can be largely attributed to these individuals and of course those who evaded capture, some of whom are also peddling their wares on the streets of Fairfax County. The drug problems in this country over the last seven years can be traced directly to a White House more concerned about the race and ethnicity of criminals than national security as it impacts Northern Virginia. And it will remain a problem throughout 2016.
Christopher Thompson
Springfield
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