I think Marc Stopeck’s batting average is pretty low, but I found last week’s Shrubtown especially misinformed [Viewpoints, Sept. 24]. Could we get a short list of the times that “jackbooted ATF thugs [were sent] into red states in the 1990s”? David Koresh in Waco? Maybe, although there were plenty of credible reports that he raped a number of the teens who were there. Or maybe this is a reference that Timothy McVeigh was treated unfairly?
It’s hardly comparable to masked men in unmarked vehicles abducting people off the streets or out of businesses to be locked up with no recourse.
Jim Peterson
Oak Park