To the editor:

Upon hearing about the horrific stories of people and their vehicles being searched upon entering the recent Wakarusa Music Festival, I began thinking, “what if?”

What if somebody wanted to bring a bomb into the festival and take out a couple hundred people and injure thousands? What if a terrorist attack had taken place and the police hadn’t done anything to prevent it like searching the vehicles entering the festival grounds?

Folks, it is sad that we no longer live in a 1960s-like era where you could go out into a field with thousands of people and have a grand ol’ time and smoke dope and drink booze to your heart’s delight. Unfortunately, we live in an era where people try to kill others by the dozen or by the hundred in the name of their religion. Never mind that they are bastardizing that very religion by their actions.

If a few people felt put out or uncomfortable by the police presence at the WMF just think how they’d feel lying in a hospital bed unable to move because somebody snuck a bomb into the crowd and tried to kill them. Now, more than ever, it is better to be on guard and safe rather than sorry.

Kris Nelson,

Lawrence